York Boats

Here are the pics which go with the narrative below. For reasons known only to the great Bird of the Galaxy, I could NOT upload those pics onto the post below where they belong! Well, they are here now, and click on them to see them full size. Some of them have droplets of water on the lens...well, it WAS raining!

The fellows built their own York Boats, some taking as much as three years to do it. The scene is the St Lawrence River, at the site of Fort de la Presentation, with the great bridge from Canada to the USA in the background. I have it on fairly good authority that that bridge antedates the French-Indian War by a few decades. The USA is the right half of that bridge, and my beloved Canada is to the left.