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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

TIL: Our national animal, a Beaver 🦫, was made official in part because the state of New York wanted to make it theirs (they did), and Canadians were like; NO! THE BEAVER IS OURS.

So ya… the US has always got us defining and redefining ourselves. Apparently it’s just a thing. 🤣

#canada #canpoli #tradewar #usa #beaver cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.669

CBCWhy Canada claimed the beaver as a national symbol 50 years agoOn March 24, 1975, the beaver officially became Canada's national symbol, and it all started because of a beef with our neighbours to the south.
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Bruce MacDonald

Here's your correspondent in a capote typical of the fur trade in the days of yore.

I borrowed this woolen garment from a staff member at Grand Portage National Monument in northeastern Minnesota, where I took part in a rendezvous re-enactment in late summer of 2022.

I found I was unsuited to carrying 90-pound packs of beaver pelts but it's fun to pretend.

Eight miles up the Grand Portage trail from here, as it approaches the Canadian border, is a large beaver pond.

An interpretive sign reads,

"As you cross the boardwalk ahead, look for a beaver dam and a conical beaver lodge built of sticks and soil. You may see beaver tracks or fresh cuttings around the pond's edges. The beaver symbol was on the Coat of Arms of the North West Company and was once the national emblem of Canada."

A graybeard would-be voyageur—your correspondent—dressed in a red woolen capote and knitted hat at a rendezvous camp re-enactment in August 2022. In the background is a cargo canoe and a canvas lean-to protecting bales of what would have been beaver pelts and other trade goods. Conifers line the shore of the bay on Lake Superior. Grand Portage Island is in the distance. The sky is overcast with a hint of blue. At Grand Portage National Monument, Minnesota.
#Canada#Woolens#beaver
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