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NO. 7 MARTIN HUNTER SERIES – Long Lake Indians : Part 2 of 2
If an Indian took a four point H. B. blanket, even with the rough usage it was subjected to, it would keep him and his wife warm for a year. The next season, a new one being bought, the old one did service for another winter as lining for mittens, strips for socks, and leggings
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NO. 7 MARTIN HUNTER SERIES – Long Lake Indians : Part 1 of 2
[PREAMBLE It is recommended that the reader study this chapter before proceeding to “NO. 6 MARTIN HUNTER SERIES – Nipigon”. In the No. 6 chapter, the writer, T.A. Reynolds, makes these remarks: “…[A drunken] Indian came staggering over the threshold . . . When liquor was first brought into the country the Indians nearly ruined
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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. 5, MARTIN HUNTER SERIES – The North Shore: Part 2 of 3
I would suggest for the preservation of our fast disappearing game(1) that a Government game protector be appointed without delay to patrol this part of the country from Missanabie to Nipigon, during the winter months, especially during the height of the snow or when it is crusted. I venture to think the Canadian
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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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NO. 2, MARTIN HUNTER SERIES – Preface to True Nature Stories
TRUE NATURE STORIES(1) by T.A. Reynolds (pen-name Martin Hunter)(2) Mr. Reynolds lived at Long Lake Post (modern Longlac) ca 1875 where he was a clerk with the Hudson’s Bay Company. In Longlac he married Elizabeth Finlayson, an Indian lady.(3) In retirement at his Brockville, Ontario home, “The Last Camp” he wrote articles for several
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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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