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John Tanner – A Rare Glimpse into the Age of the Fur Trade

Posted on August 26, 2012 by The White Oak Historical Society
John Tanner – A Rare Glimpse into the Age of the Fur Trade

John Tanner’s story comes to us by the careful chronicles of Dr. Edwin James from the city of Sault Ste. Marie. There Tanner sat and relayed to the doctor the details of a life of survival, loneliness, and adventure. Dr. James listened, and scrolled with his pen the words that plainly and boldly described life […]

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