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NO. 5, MARTIN HUNTER SERIES – The North Shore: Part 3 of 3
Leaving Heron Bay (named, by the way, after Frank Heron, a half-breed trapper who had his hunting shack here in the olden days), we wind about the lake shore to Peninsula, abbreviated from “Peninsula Harbor”. North, east and south the harbor is well protected, but with a wind from southwest I should think it would…
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NO. 4, MARTIN HUNTER SERIES – East of Nipigon: Part 1 of 3
BEFORE THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY ̶ AND NOW(1) Comparisons, I am aware, are considered odious, that is a general rule and like all other rules there are exceptions, and writing of conditions before the construction of our first transcontinental road and now is well worthy of comparison.(2) I left the Lake Superior country…
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MARTIN HUNTER SERIES, NO. 1 – Dealing With a Desperado
T.A. Reynolds Served Forty Years(1) Retired H.B.C. Fur Trader Interviewed at “Last Camp” By W.M. Conn MR. T. A. REYNOLDS(2), after serving for nearly forty years inland for the Hudson’s Bay Company, retired in 1903 and returned to civilization, settling at Brockville, on the St. Lawrence. There he built a most delightful rustic home and…
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