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"We'd be looking for a trip that has a combination of rivers and lakes".
its farther, but if you want that combination, the Allagash in Maine is really the ideal trip - you need to be reasonably competent at Class II - low CII if you have the ranger portage you and your gear aroud Chase Rapids
any river travel in BWAC or Algonquin is mainly going to be flatwater - more like long skinny lakes, with portages around the rapids