Norway House Spring
“The breaking forth of spring in this country is more like a dream than a reality,” Augustus Richard Peers wrote. Springtime at Norway House sounds wonderful, does it not? It…
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As you can guess, it is very difficult to travel via dog sled when the ice on the lakes is melting in springtime. Even the shallow Echimamish River, that crossed…
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This is the third post in a series on landmarks on the Hayes and Echimamish Rivers, with descriptions taken from John Franklin’s Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of…
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This is a continuation of a blog post that I published on September 22nd, and it tells the stories of the portages and other landmarks above Swampy Lake, that were…
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