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Posted by admin on March 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
A 1904 patriotic private postcard which shows that Old Home Week and a “Champlain celebration” were held as early as June 1904 in Saint John, New Brunswick. This is the earliest Old Home Week postcard we’ve personally seen.
Filed under North Bay · Tagged with Canada, Canadian exploration, Canadian history, explorer, festival, history, New Brunswick, New France, Nipissing, Nipissing District, Nipissing history, North Bay, Northern Ontario, Old Home Week, Ontario, Ontario history, patriotic postcard, Saint John, Samuel de Champlain
Posted by admin on August 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Early map of the Great Lakes, printed in Bordeaux, France in 1795. Early French and British explorers of Canada would go on to create the voyageur’s route, with fur trading an important part of the economic development of both Mattawa and Temagami, Ontario.
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