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5 $ â€" 1 * \ PageS14 Summer ‘85 The Cochrane Northland Post 3 How Cochrane came to make ; distant b to C di |IiStOI‘y ‘ q & q i han that of _ equally difficult for me to By Harold A. Wills already had long experience, _ languagesofmany ofthetribes, _ better comparison t . 3 1 y Haro ‘ & hardlyywon knovgledge â€" and _ its tfiugh and _ seasoned g{luts bustling ground their ant ?fiicfinzfi g:: %‘::gs‘l’lir tl':)sv itllgg i:: * Canada is so young a country ships. There was a known route counsellor. [ ; » f thetan.event of %years ago _ by way of the Sa;fiuenay river; _It takes a book to tell the When the mdde:?g%?{gz ;V{lzpsvgi‘;"s%lgn ;fih‘e’“&% 'gp‘t’g: Te .e uoc "eafl’I;} Sfifle l'iEHCe.ah:g to fi:" 8 :3, t gxghhgl;t!sl&:f thtt}el:lt_zry;cogy blbtg gh?xgggg& & inevitable. _ portage threw themselves, the history, deserving > erous, ve a short ere peare recognition for no other reason travgel season. But there was mentioned. In de Troyes‘s Vfiurlwmds of flame sw:%tnth% g%lnPOWd:fie m:?grials o%%; than that. However, the trials _ another route, by way of the _ journal or campaign notes he _ length of the portage, making i M and adventures of the hundred _ Ottawa river, ang the chain of _ reported leaving Quebec Cl‘ti}’ in _ difficult for me to describe how (Contdpg, 15) men led by the Chevalier de rivers and lakes which linked _ early March, 1686, for Ville _ we protected ourselves. It is + Troyes in 1686 were so varied, _ with the mighty Abitibi and _ Marie on the Island of so marked by hardship and Moose Rivers (as they are now Montreal, where his 100 men s danger, _ so â€" outstandingly known). The Ottawa river were being gathered, and where successful, that by themselves _ section was well known by men _ 35 cances (lgl;%e and small) . J |,â€"~ smy n eduit or coonnane they should bury the oftenâ€" _ of the Comf;:fime du Nord, as _ were loaded. Other canoes y ine. â€" heard cor lain‘tn;{nat Canadian _ well as the Indians who roamed _ were added. (4'&) Ristory lacks colour, the thisll of _ the whole vast hinterland. A on ameyr Ne ts Tel. 705â€"272â€"4253 brave exploits, or impact upon _ couple. of hardy French _ with men, oxen and baggage &dk‘__r4 & the destin yofmaltions.d daâ€"g adée&mmmdm‘ & ?;ealgmg ':hrgaugélhthef soft lchgn s fges For the young and old of e ish were at all on e river. "Much of our e Cochrane, it is a story which â€" the alert they might be _ was spent in rescuing one MOTEL COCHRANE gxpedmm flns tam t.lltI:e us% thCtecl < bedkfhep 'fc,'E t oney. fl‘tӎhetrfie gsssgotfisrewn::it:é 'ts e ition‘s cance ro on the sea and ie Saguenay, T C one of the grefatthl;i\fretlzrréext door g}:’t wg? wou]tg yenture to attack g‘fm t{le old g;‘zinll)lllte renunnctjer of @36 mOdern uni s this to $ m ? memorable _ eve in 6 Aa is mam: cvonts of that asod history when Adam Dollard and e12â€"1 & 2 B.R. Housekeeping units iod, the mixing of Denonvi ht wi is companions had fought an % fe sn o m m ue tm T ntrane Te of â€" aog oo ave ns ‘infant _ [eColour Cable T. V.eElectric heat, Phones| affairs of commerce, of the _ troupes de la marine, not _ Settlement from the Indians 26 f 5 politics of France with the retgfizr soldiers, but men well _ years before. "The trail was eComplimentary Coffeeâ€"Tea service g.lfgcs of England. In 1670 King _ fitted for garrison d“tt.hy’ among _ very bad, the river was even les II of England had them~â€"a captain with a fine worse," it was noted. They in all units Sorames reamline enc snn ernor . ané mpany _ 0f Troyes, who was named to hea weather, » fes ~Adventures of Englanga;ading the’;xpedjtion. Probably some _ were only parts of their Clean-Comfortab|e-FrIendly into Hudson‘s Bay." While the _ of those new arrivals were also problem. De Troyes found HBC (now _ the oldest chosen, but many of the 30 who reason to distrust the natives department store chain in the _ were to be the fighting around Mattawa, and the world) had received its rogal backbone of the pflr;y]:geem to Frenchmen slept with weapons charter in return for ohli%a on _ have been marines already on _ in their hands. With only 100 OWENS | to continue to search for a the smssevgnty more were leagues _ of _ the Eumug Northwest Passage to the _ Canadians, all expert _ accomplished, their Eng! Orient, its more immediate and _ cancemen, but many were _ interpreter cut his leg to the S h l I s e ce rofitable business was to trade _ chosen as well for a knowledge _ bone withanaxe. 7 & e@ervil gle products _ of _ English _ of trades â€" such as carpenters _On May 30th a more gegr}'lnle factories for the fur of the _ and blacksmiths, men.capable disaster almost wrote ‘‘finis?‘ to 1 ‘ mind %mm T2 g{ ce * tbj’e' sbaand ptgz‘?tag:%l”t;;efwygstwrtgti ‘1’:151t : . eer c weapons , ‘ote, the little %Nm"c%agm manufacturing tgg accident occurred which was a t fhejefll' bad ed that the American _ armmunition, and beblnfif in terrifying enough to be worthy . wlz ; mnfimald be penetrated _ siege operations â€" as well as of note. At amgwm%es id {" n ie "umyies tlltiltonf i R o Et tmmementuise umt altreot®heemeitoo cutm i bimeiâ€"mo i. | _ TOWing Service, Automotive | Alanitc seahoard. were paid by the Compagnie du woods with great fierceness, F C "The French equivalent of the _ Nord â€" just as the costs of _ pushed along by a very strong ast Car Wash HBC was “\:qCMBPa@ie du _ maintaining and staffing the wind. The flames did not spread ‘Nord, r:i"‘ up“_’a%n Alglli‘l anéls HBC posts Tg;erehmc:itr l:ly that ou%qblit bmtTl:ed ]';1 narrfotv}v‘, fliell;y PrOpane Gas [ charte in . ong, i . company. Three hundred years path along the shore of the lake a s employees were those stormy latel"::an these _ partnerships which we had just passed. The Llcenced mec hanlcs on petrels, Radisson and the Sieur _ between _ business and _ fire caught up with us at a 1500â€" des Groseilliers, who switched Fovemment sound . vaguely _ foot portage. We were in great duty. | their underwear. They were _ familiar. danger because of the confusion grlay‘!folfled as %atnots or I:liostdof 'lsrhoe hundred meg intc,llxilr ranks. Sotntl; r;len Ovévge § d ; aitors, _ as erocs OF _ under de yes‘s comman loading canoes at the top e renegades, as .___ the are anonymous fi%ures, but _ portage, others wre packing Have a nice ays gfmfl‘:lemncest 3nd Vl‘elzgo%lhf-: fi)ntxltla names in gddi ion to tfi?t geg;_ over tit,tghilb% some ;vgtrle moment demands e commander are on the returning to the bottom of the z & French Sun King (Louis XIV) _ record, and were to leave their portage for fresh loads. There 26, 3rd. Ave. 272â€"4185 Cochrane wasâ€"at the time paying secret _ mark on the history of their were so many comings and = subsidies . to &hflh King _ country. One of the most goings that I can think of no Charles _ II, _so _ it â€" was _ distinguishedfamilies of all was exceptionally _ difficult . to _ represented by three of the . : dfluflhbetween friends and _ twelve sons of Charles Le ‘ en ies. Moyne, Sieur de Longuenuil et de The Iroquois, with the eIY _ Chateauguay â€" Sainteâ€"Hélene ?mn of an epidemic un l(msibly Tberville _ and _ Maricourt. ° French )mihligry forces tl.;: (Charles Le. Moyne had been Canada, but when a new :,';'“,;e"“&,d“m;h,i fing*‘fnggggg 191 4th Street Cochrane f)c:avnzln:'xll.l'e ?!:'ived lnlg.fiebgg who wa ‘to frace a 5 s in 1685 he knew, or was quickly _ CODnection _ between . ~ the wA ts . ( made to understand, that now fithl;mF?:g gf the expedlfiOfi“dnftl t ”;3( .x. . sa fldWIChES was the time for acfim_mfi? . &cdog::tj!:xtngt Sfi; t:- ,i ns ..::‘ 3 . F h F a Aready the ABC had toruhied . Helene was second in command Ti rench Fries ining m o t ks â€" ltieet ieb °* e Hamb P‘gottom gfel tzedBay»lleg:s :{3: renowned son of New France". â€" am urgers g"% f‘?mi%,‘;g flblas:;,mfi:g?oge Iberv‘%fi.ue{g,figl;:e?nazx?t’o:ctfiedma; . Chicken N t . F t e e ind . â€" in later d until his ugoge i â€"and others farther north on the _ !" years, an g § I western cousts of .E)mes and: evee::lth served faithfully and ; Sh Hudson Bays. The Compagnie i * 5 td m rer ts ut . dn opier gae of Houns: t one did not ve, one j imawce might take â€" with skill, luck . ChapIetn of the expedition, was Weekdays â€" 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. JEA PA â€"and surprise. & i n t (V U PCA Cns Te he ut w e Fri. & Sat. â€" 11 a.m. to 2 gNR Surprise could be the vital da. He was not only the a a .m. to 2 a.m. ._ _‘ 4 weapon. â€" â€"_ The French _ spiritual guide of the war party, P s \prwndny, wl presumably had no confidence _ but to | some extent its roprietor Larry Gravel 272460835 Z7 in their ability to attack by sea, . experienced geographical se in waters in which the English _ guide, its translater of the