Sunday August 17, 2025

Florence Hamilton sharing traditional food and Labrador Tea on the land (top left).
Large pink quartz core and flakes beside a stone tent ring.  Quartz was used to make stone tools (top right).
Ida Rabiscah, Kristin Anderson and Jason Shields setting up the LIDAR scanner (bottom left).
So many  (bottom right).

284 years ago
 
Monday August 17th 1741

Excerpt from Journal of Prince of Wales’s Fort by Chief Factor James Isham.
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Wind W.N.W.  Very fine weather.  Armour overhauling of hunting guns, Smith shoeing horses, and 9 men a making hey, 11 men at woods drafting our winter firing, the rest at home brining of wood to pile brought home on Saturday, and this morning.  Churchill Sloop came into the river when we got her unloaded of ours provisions they received at York Fort… The shipwright a fitting up the boat and at noon 10 men came down the river brough a raft of firewood.

Reference: HBC Archives, Fort Churchill Post Journal B42-A-23 1741742