Wonderful birch bark Canoes are made here. Stripping the bark from the larger Birch trees – the squares are laced as well as being stuck together with Spruce gum. A touch of tar over the seams, when procurable, adds a finishing touch.
Just below Fort Norman – Oil was found and I was lucky enough to be present when the first well “blew in”. Oil shot 50 feet above the top of the derrick.
Since practically every hunter has a train of dogs – usually 5, an enormous quantity of fish has to be caught, and at all Posts, during the Summer, one can see this operation
