
River Rough, River Smooth
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Manitoba's Hayes River runs over six hundred kilometers from near Norway House to Hudson Bay. On its rush to the sea, the Hayes races over forty-five rapids and waterfalls as it drops down from the Precambrian Shield to the Hudson Bay Lowlands. This great waterway, the largest naturally flowing river in Manitoba, served as the highway for settlers bound for the Red River colony, ferrying their worldly goods in York boats and canoes, struggling against the mighty currents.
Traditionally used for transport and hunting by the indigenous Cree, the Hayes became a major fur trade route in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, being explored by such luminaries (Pierre Radisson (1682), Henry Kelsey (1690) David Thompson (1784), Sir John Franklin (1819), and J.B. Tyrrell (1892). This is the account of the author's invitational journey on the Hayes from Norway House to Oxford House by traditional York boat with a crew of First Nation Cree, and later, from Oxford House to York Factory by canoe in the company of other intrepid canoeists - modern-day voyageurs reliving the past.
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Anthony Dalton is an adventurer and an author. He has written five non-fiction books and collaborated on two others. Recently, he published River Rough, River Smooth and Adventures with Camera and Pen. His illustrated non-fiction articles have been printed in magazines and newspapers in 20 countries and nine languages. He lives in Delta, British Columbia.
Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Rowing Down the River
- Chapter 2: The Historic Hayes
- Chapter 3: Norway House
- Chapter 4: York Boats
- Chapter 5: Sea River Falls
- Chapter 6: The Meandering Echimamish
- Chapter 7: A Score of Beaver Dams
- Chapter 8: Painted Stone and Beyond
- Chapter 9: The Longest Portage
- Chapter 10: Logan Lake and Whitewater
- Chapter 11: Near Disaster at Hell Gates
- Chapter 12: Sailing on Windy Lake
- Chapter 13: The Wreck at Wipanipanis Falls
- Chapter 14: An End, and a New Beginning
- Chapter 15: Three Canoes on the Hayes
- Chapter 16: Rapid Descent
- Chapter 17: Final Days on the Mighty River
- Chapter 18: York Factory
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
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