Temiskaming Treasure Trails
The Earliest Years (Vol.1)
by Peter Fancy
Measureless winds and suns chipped volcanic peaks down into ocean depths, and glaciers shaved earthquake folds flat. Then after water filled the rift valley of Lake Temiskaming, creature life crept on to the land. And later people came. Wandering through thick forests, they hunted wild game for food, clothes and shelter. ... Held close by families, though, the tribe grew strong in this home of sky, earth and trees.
In 1534, Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River in search of China, but revealed instead a lush wealth of Canadian furs. So Champlain, sixty-nine years later, with monopoly fur trade in mind, settled a Canadian colony at Quebec. Yet jealous Dutch and English traders would agitate the Iroquois to scalp the French and their Huron friends. New France shrieked treason when Radisson and Groseilliers persuaded London, England, merchants to start the Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay. And then began the story of Temiskaming Treasure Trails.
The first book of Temiskaming Treasure Trails closes as two hundred years of wilderness fur trade surrender to tree chopping, church building, land ploughing settlers.
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ISBN: 0-088954-358-5 | WMPub# 1181 | 8½" x 11"
240 pages, Hardcover with Dust Cover | $24.95
List of Illustrations
01. Canada Lands
02. Distribution of Indian Tribes
03. St. Germain's Temiskaming journey
04. Compagnie du Nord, Lake Temiskaming Post
05. Montreal River notched gullet
06. De Troyes' Lake Temiskaming route
07. Part of Bellin's map, Des Lacs Du Canada
08. Province of Quebec
09. Philip Turnor's map
10. Temiskaming Trails map
11. Upper Canada
12. Moose River Mouth
13. North West Company posts
14. Camboose cook
15. Temperatures Table
16. Ojibway Indian Chief and Wife
17. Rivers Ottawa and Mattawa
18. Fort Temiskaming
19. Lumber Depot
20. Mass in a lumber shanty
21. Settler's shanty
22. Fort Temiskaming
23. St. Claude Mission
24. Des Joachim's Landing
25. Lake Temiskaming Narrows -Father Paradis' drawing
26. John Turner and wife
27. Fort Abitibi looking west
28. Fort Abitibi looking east
29. Fort Abitibi dock
30. Temiskaming Indian Families
31. Mattawa 1882, Father Paradis' drawing
32. Opernican
33. Lakes Temiskaming settlements -1884
34. Advice for settlers