IMAGE CITATION
Date: 1899
Subject:
Orignal Work:
Place: Digby County, N.S.
Source: Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management
Reference Number: N-2524/ Album 43, #1
Please contact Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management for use of this image.
IMAGE INFORMATION
Mi'kmaq guides Malti Pictou, John Labrador and Louis Peters, with two unknown sportsmen. Malti Pictou was a good canoe-maker, and the two canoes upturned here may be his work. The two fishing-creels are Mi'kmaq work as well, made of woven woodsplints.
The party went by canoe up the west branch of Bear River to Lake Joli, where the preceding picture was taken. They then portaged to Ninth Lake Stream and paddled on to Sixth Lake, then to the Sissiboo River, and up Whitesand Stream to Whitesand Lake; took Moosehead Stream to Moosehead Lake; and ultimately ended up in what is now the Tobeatic Wildlife Area at Boundary Rock, an enormous boulder which marks the meeting of Digby, Queens, Shelburne and Yarmouth Counties.
KEYWORDS
men; guiding; guides; canoes; transportation; shelters, lean-tos; tools; axes; Pictou, Malti; Labrador, John; Peters, Louis; basketry, woodsplint; fishing creels; fishing; weapons; guns; buckets; Digby County; Nova Scotia
