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Gold/Mining/Energy : Winspear Resources
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To: The Fix who wrote (4547)12/25/1997 4:09:00 PM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (2) of 26850
 
A portage give the deer flies a chance to nest in your hair and an opportunity for you to count how many blackflies can go up you nose
in one breath. After putting the canoe down some coureur de bois drowned themselves in the River :) Birch Back packs weighed 90 pounds loaded with fur and the canoe weighed 3600 pounds. (It was 30 plus feet long, 4 feet deep and 5 feet in beam. Each man had 3 packs to carry and some carried double. 36 men manned the canoe, and one man's
duty was to brew tea from a brass samovar in the middle of the boat. Longest portage between Montreal and Winnipeg was 18 miles. Canoeists were all French and non could swim. Indians were used as guides and translators but rarely paddled. The men paddled from day break to about 3 PM with 3 breaks, a distance of about 60 nautical miles a day. (a 32 foot boat has a natural speed of 7.6 miles per hour) The bowman was never taller than five feet, he set a long slow stroke of about 50 beats a minute and paddled standing up. The French Priests enforced and one day rest period on Sunday for the Indians too, by demonstrating that a crew could paddle farther by resting once in a while than going continuously. (True) to this day you cannot get a Quebecker to do much on a Sunday and they still can't swim.

echarter@vianet.on.ca
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