Fur Trade History Tidbit. The Apparition at the Grand Calumet. The most detailed account of this story comes from the memoirs of a fur trader named Horatio Nelson, who recorded it in the 1840s based on the oral traditions of the voyageurs. The incident is said to have occurred at the Grand Calumet on the Ottawa River, a notoriously dangerous set of rapids and a significant fur trade route. A group of French-Canadian voyageurs, loaded with furs, encountered two bands of enemy Iroquois warriors on

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