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Nice winter photo of multiple sleighs with dog teams waiting outside a log cabin, Men and boys standing outside, posing for photo.
Written on negative “Indian Trappers Blind River Ont.”
Postmarked on back ‘BLIND RIVER ONT. JUL 26 29’, mailed to Paris France. Stamp missing.
‘AZO’ photographic paper used confirms date is 1926-1940.
French text on back…”the countryside reminds me of our country. The weather is superb, the daytime warm and nights fresh. We are on the shores of a lake surrounded by woods and hills. In the winter it is extremely cold"
Some toning on back.
(Red text is an electronic watermark that is not physically part of the photo for sale)
Blind River is a town situated on the North Channel of Lake Huron in the Algoma District, Ontario, Canada.
French explorers discovered the North Channel and made it a renowned voyageur route. Fur traders, loggers and miners followed to seek natural resources. A fur trading post was established by the North West Company in 1789 at the mouth of the Mississagi River. When the fur trade slowed about 1820, the Hudson's Bay Company purchased the North West Company. A number of trappers settled along the rivers flowing into Lake Huron. One of the rivers, just three miles (5 km) east of the Mississagi mouth, was called Penewobecong, which translates to "smooth rock or sloping". The voyageurs named the river the Blind River because the mouth was not easily visible along the canoe route. The name Blind River was adopted by the settlement that grew at the mouth of the river.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_River,_Ontario
