Canots-du-Maitre

This is part of the thread that takes us from Lachine to the Great Lakes, and I discovered two more books on the fur trade, and looked up what they…
Read moreThis is part of the thread that takes us from Lachine to the Great Lakes, and I discovered two more books on the fur trade, and looked up what they…
Read moreFinan McDonald was one of David Thompson’s men, but unlike most of his men he also worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company as a clerk at Spokane House, and later…
Read moreFrom a book titled Canoe Crossings, I learned that what made birchbark canoes so special was that the grain of the bark that covered them was transverse rather than longitudinal.…
Read moreI am really allergic today (and have been all week) — so much so that I can hardly write at all, and will post something that does not involve a…
Read moreThis is the eighteenth leg of the York Factory Express stream, and today we are travelling up the Athabasca River to Jasper’s House, west of Fort Assiniboine. Interestingly, in some…
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