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Show 1076 heading near Lake Windemere in British Columbia, followed that north between the Rockies and Belkirks on the route of Thompson and the old Hudson Bay explorers. " Turning south and crossing the American line, I followed the river down to tidewater at Portland. That was the first Canadian river I touched and voyaged. " Several years later, in 1924, I took a small boat with an out- board motor, sixteen- foot beat, decked over carefully against storms, ran that with the out- board motor from Milwaukee to New York. That was the route of Gollet and La Salle and Marquette. " I voyaged up Lake Michigan, through the Straits of Mackinac, thence to Georgian Bay. Then there is a series of canals and lakes and rivers called the Trent canal, in which about forty locks occur in a distance of twenty- five miles. " This takes one from Georgian Bay, cutting out Lake Baron and Erie, leaving one at the head of the St. Lawrence. Then I voyaged down the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Richelieu, which drains Lake Champlain, running the numerous rapids on that river, most of which are passed now by canal. " I continued up the Richelieu to Lake Champlain, and thence by the New York barge canal to the Hudson, and on to New York. [ R. 2551] " Half of that route was through Canada. " That was my second experience in Canada. " Summer before last I was working on what was to be a book covering the earlier explorations and the present day |