Lakehead University - Yearbook (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada)

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THE NOR ' WESTER YEAR BOOK STAFF Front Row: Bob Saxberg, Helen Stanworth, Sybil Strachan, Charmaine Dodge, Pieter Prins. Back Row: John Zvonar, Cal Duthie, Don Martin, Arvo Vinni. STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES Garfield Nuttall, Irene Kauhanen, John Bayko, Nara Belluz, Frank Harrison. Missing: Don Trotter, Ken Craig, Ted Iwasa. — 15

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THE NOR ' WESTER THE NOR ' WESTER STAFF EDITOR: Sybil Strctchctn ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Sylvia Lee BUSINESS MANAGER: Donald Martin LITERARY EDITOR: Helen Stanworth ADVERTISING MANAGER: Arvo Vinni SPORTS EDITOR: Cal Duthie PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR: Pieter Prins SOCIAL EDITOR: Charmaine Dodge ACCOUNTANT: John Zvonar ADVISERS: Mr. A. M. Ross, Robert Saxberg ADVERTISING STAFF The advertising this year was allotted out to a number of the students, each going to a few firms. Our top advertising salesmen were Neil Ornstein, Howard Stanzell, and Bob Saxberg. FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES ARTS: Irene Kauhanen APPLIED SCIENCE: Garfield Nuttall Don Trotter INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY: Nara Belluz TECHNICAL FORESTRY: I Ken Craig II Ted Iwasa TECHNICAL MINING: I Frank Harrison II John Bayko 14 —

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THE NOR ' WESTER W$t Eamtmsittcjma Houte EDITOR ' S NOTE: Mr. John Stevenson is at present teaching at the Fort William Collegiate Institute and spending his spare time working on his thesis for his master ' s degree, which will deal with the history of Fort William. The following essay has been assembled from information he has accumulated prior to commencing his thesis. One of the earliest established trading routes from Lake Superior to the in- terior of the North American continent was the Kaministiquia Route. It was discovered, in 1688, by Jacques de Noyon, a French trader from Three Rivers, Quebec, who travelled up the Kaministiquia River, portaged through to Dog Lake and the Seine River, and eventually reached Rainy Lake. De Noyon spent the winter at Rainy Lake, and built a post at its western outlet for the Government of New France. The Thunder Bay area had been visited twice before de Noyon ' s explorations. Radisson and Groseilliers apparently skirted the north shore of Lake Superior, in 1662, on their famous venture into the north west. In 1678, Daniel Grey- soion, Sieur du Lhut, and La Tourette established the first French fort, Kaministiquia, on the present site of Fort William. This fort, however, was not maintained during subsequent years, and was finally abandoned. In 1717, with a view to the discovery of the western sea, the Kaministiquia post was re-built by Zacharie Robutal de La Noue under the direction of the Governor, M. de Vaudreuil, and the Intendant, M. Begon of New France. The King of France gave his blessing to the scheme along with an annotation that costs be kept to a minimum. In 1727, Pierre de Varennes, Sieur de La Verendrye, was appointed to the Postes du Nord , which included Kami- nistiquia. In the years following his appointment, La Verendrye used the Kaministiquia Route numerous times in his unsuccessful search for the west- ern sea. French efforts to extend the fur trade and to press to the western sea were continued by subsequent commanders after the death of La Verendrye in 1749; preference, however, was eventually given to a shorter route from Superior west — that developed from Grand Portage along the present Inter- national boundary to Rainy Lake. When the Seven Years ' War broke out in 1756, French officers and men were recalled to Montreal and Quebec to help defend the eastern section of New France against the British. By the end of the war, and with the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the posts of the north west were all but abandoned by the French. English efforts to reconstitute the trade from Montreal to the interior, after the 16 —