The skip was run alongside & tied up. A wooden trough, as long as it was kept wet, allowed the wood to be slid aboard, where it was piled alongside the furnace. Then on again.
It must be remembered that the only – practically the only business in that whole 1500 miles, was Fur Trading.
Posts all looked alike – varying possibly a little in size, but they all consisted of a Mission, in most cases Catholic, run by Oblate Fathers who were nearly all French, and Les Soeurs Grises, The Grey Sisters. One or more stores – always including an Hudsons Bay Store, sometimes one belonging to the Northern Trading Company – and occasionally an individual Trader – usually Greek or Jewish.
