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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)

 

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birch bark canoe used by the Voyageurs
who paddled the canoes from Montreal

 

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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)

 

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Link to Fort William, Ontario page

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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

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Photos from an ELDERHOSTEL program at the
Audubon Center of the North Woods

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Photos of Black Bears in Minnesota

 

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Photos of Wolves in Minnesota

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