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Scenic Solitude - Capturing the Unique Atmosphere
Canada
Ontario
The Last of the Light - About Twilight
Near Uxbridge, Ontario
Bon Echo Park
Algonquin Park
Ottawa
Fall Rhapsody
Canadian Lake Superior & Algoma Regions
Different views, different lighting conditions, different seasons make for unforgettable landscapes. The shadow is very strong in many photos.
Fur Trading Routes of the 18th-19th centuries
Map showing the main canoe routes of the French, and later the North Western, from Lake Superior to James and Hudson's Bay. For 200 years the Post at Michipicoten stood at the hub' for travel North, East and West. Posts and trail marked...show La Verendryes' journeys (1731-1751) and other early traders, Radisson, DeLhut etc.
Land of the Big Goose, Turcot, Anges, W.
Map of Journeys and Territory Discovered by Members of the NWCo. and H. B. Co.
Fur Trade Timeline
1753 New France officially becomes British North America. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 ends the Seven Years War (French-Indian War). 1783 The North West Company is officially founded. Britain recognizes the independence of the thirteen American colonies. 1789 Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Arctic Ocean. The French Revolution begins. 1803 NWc0 headquarters is moved from Grand Portage to Fort William. The United States makes the Louisiana Purchase. 1812 United States declares war on Great Britain. The Treaty of Ghent (1814) will define the Canada-US boundary. 1821 The HBC and the NWC0 amalgamate. Parliament grants the new Hudson's Bay Company a fur trading monopoly over 3 million square miles of North America. 1867 The colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario unite to form the Dominion of Canada. The United States buy Alaska from the Russians. 1959 The St. Lawrence Seaway is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower. 1972 The Government of Ontario reconstructs Fort William nine miles up-river from the original site. The cities of Fort William and Port Arthur joined to from Thunder Bay (1970). |
Fort William reconstructed in 1939 as it was first built in 1803
Quebec
Luskville, La Peche, Gatineau Hills route, Fall 2021
Montmorency Falls, near Quebec City
Parc national des Grands Jardins, Charlevoix region
Parc national des Hautes Gorges de la Riviere Malbaie
New Brunswick
Alberta & British Columbia
Livingstone Range - Southern Alberta
Kooteney Provinceal Park, British Columbia
Mount Robson and its River Basin
The Robson River owes its milky colour to rock flour: tiny particles scraped from the bedrock by stones embedded in moving glacial ice.
Most Robson's four glaciers supply meltwater to the river, as do the eight other glaciers in the watershed. All this water goes into the Fraser River. There are no lakes along the Fraser in which rock flour can settle out, so it travels all the way to the Pacific Ocean near Vancouver, a journey of a thousand kilometres. The great delta that makes up most of B.C.'s Lower Mainland holds enormous quantities of rock flour from the mountains upstream. A bit of Mount Robson is spread through the soil of farms from Richmond to White Rock, and from Delta to Chilliwack.
Most Robson's four glaciers supply meltwater to the river, as do the eight other glaciers in the watershed. All this water goes into the Fraser River. There are no lakes along the Fraser in which rock flour can settle out, so it travels all the way to the Pacific Ocean near Vancouver, a journey of a thousand kilometres. The great delta that makes up most of B.C.'s Lower Mainland holds enormous quantities of rock flour from the mountains upstream. A bit of Mount Robson is spread through the soil of farms from Richmond to White Rock, and from Delta to Chilliwack.
United States
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