OLDEST - Trans-Canada Throughway - Ottawa, Ontario.
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N 45° 24.643 W 075° 44.624
18T E 441803 N 5028846
This is the oldest trans-Canada throughway, the canoe route by the Ottawa River to the Rockies by way of rivers, lakes and portages.
Waymark Code: WM11PDT
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 11/25/2019
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Inscription on the plaque:
This is the oldest trans-Canada throughway, the canoe route by the Ottawa River, Lake Nipissing, Lake Superior and Lake Winnipeg and the Churchill River to Lake Athabaska and the Rockies. Past this point travelled many explorers, from Brule, Champlain and la Verendrye to Mackenzie, Thompson and Fraser. The Recollet and Jesuit missionaries went this way to and from Huronia.
The fur traders from the early coureurs des bois to the later brigades in big Montreal canoes paddling to and from the "pays d'en haut" made this river their highway.
Type of documentation of superlative status: Plaque and below web site
Location of coordinates: Ottawa, Ontario
Web Site: [Web Link]
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