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Mattawa fur route confluence town

Riverbank Documented siteGray area
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Ancient canoe-route junction of the Mattawa and Ottawa rivers with an HBC post, then a rough lumber town after the CPR arrived in 1881.

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