. The story of Isaac Brock, hero, defender and saviour of upper Canada, 1812 . QUEEf^STON ROAD ABOUT 1S24.(Orig^iiial painting: by Charles \V. Jefferys, ) The Story ui LtAds, ui\J-^^-CHAPTER VI. BRIDLE-ROAD. BATTEAU AND CANOE The means for transit through Canada at this time wasmost primitive, and not the least of the questions whichoceiipied Brocks though ns- portation. The lack les of men and supplies. ut as was the lack of Between Qr leagues, the - four stages, reqi: ni summer and ) ed was three do ve cents a leagut as ferries m summer at the Ottawa ani at. l^ake St. i^rancis,except f
. The story of Isaac Brock, hero, defender and saviour of upper Canada, 1812 . QUEEf^STON ROAD ABOUT 1S24.(Orig^iiial painting: by Charles \V. Jefferys, ) The Story ui LtAds, ui\J-^^-CHAPTER VI. BRIDLE-ROAD. BATTEAU AND CANOE The means for transit through Canada at this time wasmost primitive, and not the least of the questions whichoceiipied Brocks though ns- portation. The lack les of men and supplies. ut as was the lack of Between Qr leagues, the - four stages, reqi: ni summer and ) ed was three do ve cents a leagut as ferries m summer at the Ottawa ani at. l^ake St. i^rancis,except for a break of fifty v ^ by Cornwall and Prescott to Kingston, along \.;, ..ate United Emrnr.^Loyalists twenty years before had established the^ A few years prior to Brocks arrival, G- ton, > ad of Lake Ontario - of the U. E. L amous V. -iix us. From : * .11-. Bridle-Road, Batteau and Canoe ing lands of the western peninsula, to the La Trenche (theThames River), from whence Lake St. Clair and theDetroit outlet to the great lakes was reached by military road, also built by Simcoe, followed theold Indian trail through thirty-three miles of forest fromYork to Lake Simcoe. This shorter route to Lake Superiorenabled the ISTorth-West Fur Company—established byFrobisher and McTavish, of Montreal, in 1Y76—to avoidcanoeing up the Ottawa and its tortuous tributaries. Thebatteaux were brought up the St. Lawrence, breaking bulkat certain carrying places, then under sail up LakeOntario to York. From here the cargoes were hauled byhorses over Yonges military road to Lake Simcoe, thenceby river and stormy Lake Huron to Fort Michilimackinac,Great Turtle Island—the Mackinaw of to-day—at thehead of Lake Michigan. By this route fifty dollars wassaved on every ton of freight from Ottawa to the middlenorth. At Mackinaw the goods were reshi
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