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Great Experience in Thunder Bay, Ontario
September 30, 2008 |  Fort William is a historical site with more than 42 outfitted era buildings which allows the visitor to visit just as it was in 1815.
This activity was one of the things I had set up for our family vacation. I wasn't sure how it would turn out, but thought it sounded cool. I could tell my husband was lukewarm about the idea, but my oldest son was game.
Boy - What a Find!!! We absolutely loved the fort and all its reenactors. After a beautiful hike through a forested area, the fort appears along with a Native Ojibwa and Métis encampment right outside its walls. We were warmly welcomed with the offer of tasting delicious aboriginal foods (yummy blueberries and longrice prepared like popcorn).
Besides discovering all the buildings of the fort and their utilitarian uses, there were animals, a canoe builder, kids games, baking bread, blacksmith, tinsmith, churning butter, a wagon ride, tavern, the tools of the doctor and apothecary. Everyone was going about their daily 1815 business.
Exciting dramas would happen around us during our exploration. We watched as the fort bourgeois took his leave with much fan fare on a canoe to head into civilization to negotiate good prices on fur and goods while bagpipes blared, laborers danced and canons shot. Later on in the day we enjoyed the antics and confrontation of an overworked contracted laborer who had proceeded to get drunk, disorderly and ultimately arrested by the fort constable.
A great time was had by all. Before we knew it, we had been there all day and the fort was closing!
We missed out on paddling in a voyageur canoe on the Kaministiquia River. Hopefully someday we can return.
Fort William Historical Park
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