Friday, July 27, 2012

Lake Superior Circle Tour - Still Day 2: Grand Portage National Historic Site

Our last stop of the day, besides our hotel in Canada, was Grand Portage National Historic Site.  It was the spot where fur traders would come off of Lake Superior and carry their canoes for a few hours to the Boundary Waters and other waterways.  It was a lot of fun and we all became Junior Rangers here. We bet you didn't know that you need bear fat to make a good birch bark canoe or that the Three Sisters are corn, beans, and squash and that they compliment each other in how they grow in a garden?!?!

Playing lacrosse the original way!


The canoe shop.


The NW Company garrison.



Inside the main dining room.



The water that far north in Lake Superior is very, very cold.  It averages 50 degrees Farenheit in August.  50!


Love,
Ainsley, Ben, and Cameron

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