Fur Trade Canoe Routes of Canada / Then and Now 9781487576455

Before road or rail, the canoe routes followed by voyageurs formed a transport and supply system crossing a continent an

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Fur Trade Canoe Routes of Canada Then and Now

ERIC W. MORSE

First published 1969 © Crown Copyrights reserved Reprinted 1971 Second edition © Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1979 Printed in Canada Reprinted in 2018

Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Morse, Eric W., 1904Fur trade canoe routes of Canada Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-8020-6384-7 (paper) 1. Fur trade-Canada. 2. Trade routes. I. Canada. Dept. of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. II. Canada. Parks Canada. III. Title. HD9944.c22M65 1979

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Cover illustration: Canoes in a Fog, Lake Superior, 1869, by Frances Ann Hopkins. Courtesy of The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta.

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