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North West
Company fur quarters at Grand Portage
(8 1/2 mile portage from Lake Superior to the inland river systems)
birch bark
canoe used by the Voyageurs
who paddled the canoes from Montreal
kitchen serving the North West Company facility
(the North
West Company headquarters was moved to Fort William in Ontario
when it was determined by survey that Grand Portage was now (1804) in the United
States)
Link to Fort William, Ontario page
demonstration of how the Voyageurs carried 90 lb. sacks of furs
More Photos of North West Company fur post at Pine City, Minnesota
surface mining of iron ore
More Photos of iron ore operations
Photos
from an ELDERHOSTEL program at the
Audubon Center of the North Woods
Photos of Black Bears in Minnesota
