Identifier: lakesuperiortose00garn (find matches)
Title: Lake Superior to the Sea
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Garnault Agassiz
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Publisher: (Montreal) : Canada Steamship Lines
Contributing Library: Brock University
Digitizing Sponsor: Brock University - University of Toronto Libraries

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Their Mighty Wheat Elevators Lining the Sky
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The W. Grant Morden, of the Canada Steamship Lines Fleet, by the way, Is the Largest Freight Carrier on the Great LakesAbove, the Sir Trevor Dawson, Another of the Companys Giant Freighters Lake Superior to the Sea 17 having been founded as a trading port in 1669 by D. G. duLhut.In 1717 the French constructed quite an imposing fort here, namingit Fort Kaministiquia. This fort was used as the base of a numberof punitive expeditions against the Indians, but never loomed verylargely in New World history. It was visited by Verandrye and hissons on their way to the Rainy River country and the Great Northwestin 1749, but did not become important commercially until afterCanada had been surrendered to the British, when it was chosen asthe headquarters of the Northwest Fur Company, the single rival ofthe famous Hudsons Bay corporation. In 1805 its name was changed

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