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#1 16th July 2010 16:18:32
- The Canoe Stig
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Voyageurs imagery .
Makes you think about the canoes and life they lead. Note there carring the of passengers in the top picture and the beautiful Algonquin style paddles.
A rag, tag and bobtailed bunch, but non the less brothers in arms, fighting the good fight. 
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#2 1st August 2010 01:24:43
- Nomad
- Milieux
- Registered: 9th July 2010
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Re: Voyageurs imagery .
Yes reminds me of how expendable they were. Paddling some of the old routes, which just now are coming to light I have been reminded of history. THere is an account in the U of Manitobas library of a voyageur hauling up freight out of what is believed to be Rockcliffe Lake in Wabakimi "whereupon he perished of his exertions" It was tough enough going up once up the cliff ( a couple of hundred feet high) with a 60 lb load. Imagine the expendable voyageur who was compelled to carry three times that weight. And if there were many portages like that the master did not care. No voyageur could rest at will. If there were twenty portages like that so be it. Sometimes you find wooden crosses, but more often nothing remains of gravesites.
The food was substandard and water still suscseptible to giardia and other inconveniences and dehydration too common.
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