RE: Primary Style of Hunting?
They were a hardy bunch. Old Ray did not mention that most were forced out of their jobs by disability.
They were not independent travelers exploring the bush, they were under contract to move goods from one place to another and those 80-90 pound packs were a brutal load on the portage.
Most were forced out of their jobs at an early age with strangulated hernias.
Most were also extreme tobacco addicts and insisted on stopping every hour or two for a pipe of tobacco.
You can travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific in Canada by canoe and your longest portage will be 8 miles over the continental divide in the Rocky Mountains.
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