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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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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To-day the Grain Is Loaded into a Vessels Hold at the Rate of 50,000 Bushels an Hour to Fort William, after the given name of one of the directors of theNorthwest Company, and when, in 1821, an amalgamation betweenthe latter company and the Hudsons Bay corporation was effected,it was made the chief entrepot of what has since become the greatestfur-trading organization of all time. This honor it retained untilvery recent years, when an extension of the industry north and westcompelled a transfer of the chief post to a point nearer the sceneof operations. During its regime as the metropolis of the Canadianfur trade, Fort William displayed remarkable activity, it beingrecorded that in season as many as three thousand trappers andtheir families were wont to camp in its environs. Although the first steam-propelled vessel to the Lower Lakesleft Fort William in 1870, it was not until, with the coming ofthe Canadian Pacific, three years later, that the town began toattain a real importance as

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