French River
I have always been told that the French River is one of the most beautiful rivers the voyageurs travelled on their way to the interior. It was part of the…
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In this post we continue our journey up the Grand, or Ottawa River, following in the footsteps of the voyageurs and gentlemen of the North West Company, and, after 1821,…
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The historic Ottawa River was often called le Grand River — the “Big River” — by the first voyageurs who travelled up and down its length. And it was a…
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The rapids-filled Ottawa River led the North West Company voyageurs, and the later HBC Lachine Brigades, northward from the Lake of the Two Mountains to the mouth of the Mattawa…
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All of the North West Company men, and many of the HBC men, entered Rupertsland via the system of rivers that led from Lachine, on the St. Lawrence River, to…
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