Excerpt from Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North The Red River Valley, the Sackatchewan Valley, and British Columbia, are now belted by a great railway, and given to the plough; but in the far north, life is much the same as it was a hundred years ago. There the trapper, clerk, trader, and factor, are cast in the mould of another century, though possessing the acuter energies of this. The voyageur and courier de bois still exist, though,...
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