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historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-25fa5_the-mattawa-route_Mattawa-Ontario.html
When west-bound voyageurs left the Ottawa here at Mattawa, "the forks," they faced 11 portages in the next 40 miles. The Mattawa, or Petite-Rivière, was a key link in the historic canoe route between Montréal and the upper Great Lakes and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-cd2e9_mattawa-house-1837_Mattawa-Ontario.html
Trading in furs at this junction of historic canoe routes probably began during the French regime. At intervals during the 1820's and 1830's Chief Trader John Siveright, commanding the Hudson's Bay Company's post at Fort Coulonge, sent men to trad…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-a3ed1_french-canadian-settlement-and-the-cpr-in-the-mattawa-area_Mattawa-Ontario.html
Francophone settlement rapidly increased in the Mattawa area with the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in 1881. During construction of the rail line, the local economy benefitted from the presence of thousands of French-Canadian worke…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-c0dff_canoe-route-to-the-west_Mattawa-Ontario.html
Here, when the canoe was the principal means of travel, explorers, voyageurs, missionaries and others bound for the West, left the Ottawa River and followed the Mattawa River to Lake Nipissing, the French River and the upper Great Lakes. For over …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-642e4_louise-de-kiriline-lawrence_Ontario.html
Louise Flach was born in Sweden and grew up on the scenic Baltic coast where she developed an interest in nature. Flach became a Red Cross nurse, serving during the First World War in Denmark, and then with her first husband Greb de Kiriline who d…