A Northern Experience: The Journals of Norman Robinson
On the River Page 20

Freight was being hauled across the 18 mile Portage, from Fort Fitzgerald as quickly as possible & this all had to be loaded into the McKenzie River by hand as there was neither loading nor unloading machinery.

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