Where I grew up was pretty amazing. A little over an hour from Toronto but no cable, cell phones, etc. We were completely surrounded by nature, creeks and lakes full of fsh, woods full of wild foods. Where you are, it is a treasure trove of wild foods. There's a guy from New York named Steve "Wildman" Brill that has an excellent book and there would be a lot of the same foods you would have there. You probably have fiddleheads, morels, puffballs and literally hundreds of other foods growing there.
We used to have assholes like that on our lake and they thought it was great fun to swamp canoes. We got them once though. I saw the police launching their boat and I asked them to wait and watch us when we went into the bay. The law is that smaller craft always have the right of way so I knew those kids, well they were older than I was but probably 18-19 at the time, would be coming right over when they saw us in the canoe. Within 20 minutes they were doing circles around us and before we got swamped, the cops came flying over and got them for not only trying to capsize us but they had weed, booze and fireworks in the boat, which were all illegal and then the guy driving got an impaired. It was pretty sweet justice because they had flipped us over probably ten times over the two summers.