Thanks Smoke!

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Rob Mann, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
St. Cloud State University
252 Stewart Hall
720 4th Avenue South
St. Cloud, Minnesota 56301
phone: 320-308-4181


-----Original Message-----
From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Smoke
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 6:24 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: voyageur "pipes"

Rob: You might want to try and mine the Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents 1610 to 1791: http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/

This site contains the entire English translation of the *The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents*, originally compiled and edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by The Burrows Brothers Company, Cleveland, throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century. Each file represents the total English contents of a single published volume. The original work has facing pages in the original French, Latin or Italian, depending on the author.

Take a look at the Canadian Institute for Historical Micror eproduction (Early Canadiana Online <http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq>) as well as the Aboriginal Digital Collections <http://aboriginalcollections.ic.gc.ca/> for more primary sources. Early Canadiana Online features a reproduction of the French text of: The Relations of 1635 <http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?id=215b014c33&doc=39081>, The Relations of 1636 <http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?id=215b014c33&doc=94031>, The Relations of 1637 <http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?id=215b014c33&doc=50858>, The Relations of 1638 <http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?id=215b014c33&doc=36491>, The Relations of 1643 and 1644 <http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?id=215b014c33&doc=63120>, The Relations of 1645 and 1646 <http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?id=215b014c33&doc=44703>, The Relations of 1650 and 1651 <http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?id=215b014c33&doc=62717>, The Relations of 1651 and 1652 <http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?id=215b014c33&doc=90076>, The Relations of 1652 and 1653 <http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?id=215b014c33&doc=63303>, The Relations of 1663 and 1664 <http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?id=215b014c33&doc=36923>, The Relations of 1672 and 1673 <http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?id=215b014c33&doc=90646>. Note that these are facimilie pages (scanned images of the original texts).

Please keep me in mind for your completed research on this subject.  Thank You.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Mann, Robbie <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hello Histarchers,
>
> This is mainly a question for the Canadians on the list.  I am putting 
> the finishing touches on a chapter dealing with the smoking habits of 
> French Canadien voyageurs. One of the unique aspects of voyageur 
> smoking habits was the method of reckoning distance along fur trade 
> canoe routes using smoking pipes.  A "pipe" referred to both the 
> distance covered between rest stops, when the voyageurs could take the 
> time to fill and light a new pipe and to the rest stops themselves.  A 
> "pipe" rest stop might last as much as ten minutes and according to 
> archaeologist Douglas Birk the distance of a "pipe" could be anywhere 
> from two to over six miles depending on variables such as the wind or current.
>
> Most of the primary references to this practice seem to come from 
> British (or American) sources written during the post-Conquest period 
> of the fur trade.  I am wondering if anyone knows of primary sources 
> documenting this practice during the French Regime?
>
> Secondarily,  if anyone knows of good archaeological contexts that 
> relate to voyageur occupations of fur trade sites, I would be 
> interested in knowing about those sources as well.
>
> Best,
> Rob
>
> *******************************************
> Rob Mann, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> Department of Sociology and Anthropology St. Cloud State University
> 252 Stewart Hall
> 720 4th Avenue South
> St. Cloud, Minnesota 56301
> phone: 320-308-4181
>



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