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Mackenzie's Oil. The glitter of oil is not new on the Mackenzie River above the old Hudson's Bay post at Fort Norman. Young Alex Mackenzie, who scouted the north country for the fur trade in the late 18th Century, made a note of the surface seepage. But not until 1914, after Turner Valley made Canada conscious of oil, did a geologist venture to Fort Norman. Not until 1920 was the first well brought in, after prodigious pioneering...
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...worked long enough to be eligible for unemployment compensation. In ordnance work, women inspect, gauge, operate automatic machines. But tiremaking is a hard, dirty, heavy job. A mere 300 may eventually get back their jobs with The Kelly. The remainder, some of whom worked just long enough to buy fur coats on the installment plan, must move away to find jobs, stay at home, join the WACS...
...supreme importance of the 60-odd mile St. Mary's River connecting Lakes Superior and Huron, and the need for a canal around the three-quarter-mile white water rapids. The first canal and a tiny, 39-foot-long lock were dug in 1797 by the North West Fur Co. to steal a march on the Hudson's Bay Co. This gave its bearded, fur-hatted voyageurs a quicker route for their flat-bottomed bateaux. During the war of 1812, Americans wrecked this canal. Later, when the Michigan legislature asked Congress to dig a new canal, Congress refused...