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
>
> *******************************************
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> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> Department of Sociology and Anthropology
> St. Cloud State University
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>



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