{"id":4434,"date":"2011-07-04T15:24:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T19:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4434"},"modified":"2011-07-04T15:35:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T19:35:20","slug":"on-the-river-in-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/07\/04\/on-the-river-in-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"On the river&#8230;in Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a lively article from Alex Hutchinson about traveling the Li\u00e8vre River by canoe, starting about 170 miles miles north of Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>Hutchinson contrasts the blessing of paddling a &#8220;nearly indestructible vinyl-coated thermoplastic&#8221; canoe to an account of a similar trip taken by Pierre de Troyes in 1686.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The journals offer a lively picture of conditions on a 17th-century canoe trip. The day before they reach the mouth of the Li\u00e8vre, the men are forced to stop and \u201cre-gum\u201d their leaky birch-bark canoes. While camped nearby, one man seriously burns his hand putting out a fire in his kettle and another chops a finger off with his hatchet; five others fall ill with fever from the cold water after being swamped in rapids.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a Canadien tied to a tree to punish him for an insulting remark that he had made,\u201d de Troyes noted the next day. \u201cSeveral unruly characters almost started a mutiny because of this, but I shortly led them back to their duty.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read about modern voyageurs&#8217; adventures in Hutchinson&#8217;s full article <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/03\/travel\/in-quebec-canoeing-the-lievre-river-once-a-fur-traders-route.html?src=dayp\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a lively article from Alex Hutchinson about traveling the Li\u00e8vre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5695,880,5696,48,1124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4435,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions\/4435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}