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Quebec
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Quebec is the second-most populous province of Canada and the only one to have a predominantly French-speaking population, with French as the sole provincial official language. Quebec is Canadas largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division and it also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Quebec is Canadas second-most populous province, after Ontario, most inhabitants live in urban areas near the Saint Lawrence River between Montreal and Quebec City, the capital. Approximately half of Quebec residents live in the Greater Montreal Area, the Nord-du-Québec region, occupying the northern half of the province, is sparsely populated and inhabited primarily by Aboriginal peoples. Even in central Quebec at comparatively southerly latitudes winters are severe in inland areas, Quebec independence debates have played a large role in the politics of the province. Parti Québécois governments held referendums on sovereignty in 1980 and 1995, in 2006, the House of Commons of Canada passed a symbolic motion recognizing the Québécois as a nation within a united Canada. These many industries have all contributed to helping Quebec become an economically influential province within Canada, early variations in the spelling of the name included Québecq and Kébec. French explorer Samuel de Champlain chose the name Québec in 1608 for the colonial outpost he would use as the seat for the French colony of New France. The province is sometimes referred to as La belle province, the Province of Quebec was founded in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 after the Treaty of Paris formally transferred the French colony of Canada to Britain after the Seven Years War. The proclamation restricted the province to an area along the banks of the Saint Lawrence River, the Treaty of Versailles ceded territories south of the Great Lakes to the United States. After the Constitutional Act of 1791, the territory was divided between Lower Canada and Upper Canada, with each being granted an elected legislative assembly, in 1840, these become Canada East and Canada West after the British Parliament unified Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada. This territory was redivided into the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario at Confederation in 1867, each became one of the first four provinces. In 1898, the Canadian Parliament passed the first Quebec Boundary Extension Act that expanded the provincial boundaries northward to include the lands of the aboriginal peoples. This was followed by the addition of the District of Ungava through the Quebec Boundaries Extension Act of 1912 that added the northernmost lands of the Inuit to create the modern Province of Quebec. In 1927, the border between Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador was established by the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Located in the part of Canada, and part of Central Canada. Its topography is very different from one region to another due to the composition of the ground, the climate. The Saint Lawrence Lowland and the Canadian Shield are the two main regions, and are radically different
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The arrival of
Samuel de Champlain, the father of
New France, on the site of
Quebec City.
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Michel's falls on
Ashuapmushuan River in
Saint-Félicien,
Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean.
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View of
Jacques-Cartier River from Andante mountain.
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Lac-Ashuapmushuan, Quebec
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Lac-Ashuapmushuan is an unorganized territory in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the regional county municipality of Le Domaine-du-Roy. The region had a population of 28 as of the Canada 2011 Census and it is home to the Ashuapmushuan Wildlife Reserve. The eponymous Lake Ashuapmushuan is roughly in the centre of the territory and this lake, about 14 kilometres long by 2.3 kilometres wide, is the source of the Ashuapmushuan River. Its name is of Innu origin, meaning place where one lies in wait for moose, in 1685, French fur traders set up a trading post near Lake Ashuapmushuan that remained almost continuously in operation until the middle of the 19th century. It successively came under control of the Traite de Tadoussac, Kings Posts, the North West Company, Quebec Route 167 goes through the territory, but there are no services or fuel available for its entire length. The Ashuapmushuan Wildlife Reserve and the territory of Lac-Ashuapmushuan take their name from the Ashuapmushuan River. This river was a preferred axis to connect in canoes between Lac Saint-Jean and James Bay and this area is renowned for hunting and fishing. Population trend, Population in 2011,28 Population in 2006,35 Population in 2001,0 Population in 1996,0 Population in 1991,3 Private dwellings occupied by residents,15
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Lac-Ashuapmushuan
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Lac Saint-Jean
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Lac Saint-Jean is a large, relatively shallow lake in south-central Quebec, Canada, in the Laurentian Highlands. It is situated 206 kilometres north of the Saint Lawrence River and it covers an area of 1,053 km2, and is 63.1 m at its deepest point. Its name in the Innu language is Piekuakami, the lake is fed by dozens of small rivers, including the Ashuapmushuan, the Mistassini, the Peribonka, the Des Aulnaies, the Métabetchouane, and the Ouiatchouane. The towns on its shores include Alma, Dolbeau-Mistassini, Roberval, Normandin, three Regional County Municipalities lie on its shores, Lac-Saint-Jean-Est, Le Domaine-du-Roy, and Maria-Chapdelaine. The lake was named Piekuakami by the Innu, the people who occupied the area at the time of European arrival. It was given its French name after Jean de Quen, a Jesuit missionary who in 1647 was the first European to reach its shores, industry on the lake was dominated by the fur trade until the 19th century. Colonization began in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region in the early 19th century, industry was mainly forestry and agriculture. In the 20th century, pulp and paper mills and aluminum smelting rose to importance, encouraged by hydroelectric dams at Alma, Lac Saint-Jean also has an important summer resort and sport-fishing industry. The area is featured in the classic French-language novel Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon published in 1914 and subsequently translated into twenty languages. In the 1940s, during World War II, Lac Saint-Jean, along various other regions within Canada, such as the Saguenay, Saint Helens Island and Hull. Lac Saint-Jeans was numbered and remained unnamed just like most of Canadas other war prisons, the prisoners of war were classified into categories including their nationality and civilian or military status. By 1942 this region had two camps with at least 50 POWs, prisoners worked the land, including lumbering and assisting in the production of pulp and paper. Birthplace of NHL Hall of Famer and Team Canada 1972 member Jean Ratelle, birthplace of McGill Professor Mario Chevrette, Ph. D of Molecular and Cell Biology. List of lakes of Quebec Saguenay Graben Lac-Saint-Jean travel guide from Wikivoyage
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Lac Saint-Jean
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Lac Saint-Jean from
Saint-Gédéon
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Longitude lines are perpendicular and latitude lines are parallel to the equator.
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Lake Saint-Jean
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Lac Saint-Jean is a large, relatively shallow lake in south-central Quebec, Canada, in the Laurentian Highlands. It is situated 206 kilometres north of the Saint Lawrence River and it covers an area of 1,053 km2, and is 63.1 m at its deepest point. Its name in the Innu language is Piekuakami, the lake is fed by dozens of small rivers, including the Ashuapmushuan, the Mistassini, the Peribonka, the Des Aulnaies, the Métabetchouane, and the Ouiatchouane. The towns on its shores include Alma, Dolbeau-Mistassini, Roberval, Normandin, three Regional County Municipalities lie on its shores, Lac-Saint-Jean-Est, Le Domaine-du-Roy, and Maria-Chapdelaine. The lake was named Piekuakami by the Innu, the people who occupied the area at the time of European arrival. It was given its French name after Jean de Quen, a Jesuit missionary who in 1647 was the first European to reach its shores, industry on the lake was dominated by the fur trade until the 19th century. Colonization began in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region in the early 19th century, industry was mainly forestry and agriculture. In the 20th century, pulp and paper mills and aluminum smelting rose to importance, encouraged by hydroelectric dams at Alma, Lac Saint-Jean also has an important summer resort and sport-fishing industry. The area is featured in the classic French-language novel Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon published in 1914 and subsequently translated into twenty languages. In the 1940s, during World War II, Lac Saint-Jean, along various other regions within Canada, such as the Saguenay, Saint Helens Island and Hull. Lac Saint-Jeans was numbered and remained unnamed just like most of Canadas other war prisons, the prisoners of war were classified into categories including their nationality and civilian or military status. By 1942 this region had two camps with at least 50 POWs, prisoners worked the land, including lumbering and assisting in the production of pulp and paper. Birthplace of NHL Hall of Famer and Team Canada 1972 member Jean Ratelle, birthplace of McGill Professor Mario Chevrette, Ph. D of Molecular and Cell Biology. List of lakes of Quebec Saguenay Graben Lac-Saint-Jean travel guide from Wikivoyage
Lake Saint-Jean
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Lac Saint-Jean
Lake Saint-Jean
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Lac Saint-Jean from
Saint-Gédéon
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Peribonka River
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The Peribonka River is a river in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean area in Quebec, Canada. It is 451 kilometres long and drains an area of 28,200 square kilometres and it drains into Lac Saint-Jean at Pointe-Taillon National Park and is the largest tributary of this lake. The town of Péribonka is located on the shore of Lac St-Jean at the rivers mouth. The name is derived from the Montagnais word pelipaukau, meaning river digging through the sand or where there is moving sand, the Peribonka River springs a short distance west of the Otish Mountains in a swampy area on the granite and muskeg of the Canadian Shield. From there it flows south until Lamarche, forming the boundary between the Maria-Chapdelaine and Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional Counties, from Lamarche, it flows west to Lac Saint-Jean. Its basin of 28,200 square kilometres comprises about one-third of the entire Saguenay River basin, by the second half of the 17th century, the river was used by Europeans as an access route to James Bay. The first official reference to the river is from April 16,1679, in the Register of missions, stating juxtà fluvium Perib8ka ad lacum Peok8agami priest François de Crespieul baptized two children. In October of that year, after investigating the state of English positions on Hudson Bay, Louis Jolliet returned to Quebec City via this route, the spelling changed to Periboaka on Lauras map of 1731 and Periboac on Nicolas Bellins map of 1755. In 1825, Pascal Taché identified it as Péribonka and subsequently this name, together with Peribonca, while trappers and traders made relatively little use of the Peribonka in the 17th and 18th centuries, the river gained importance in the 19th century. Logging camps were established within its watershed and the river was used to drive logs downstream, and starting in 1887, in 1928, the Peribonka River overflowed its banks and flooded several villages. Major development came in the 1940s when Alcan, a leading aluminum producer, from 1941 to 1943, the Chute-des-Passes Dam was built at the south end of Lake Péribonka that became a vast reservoir. This was followed by two dams were built downstream, the Chute-du-Diable from 1950 to 1952, and Chute-à-la-Savane from 1951 to 1953. The classic novel Maria Chapdelaine by French writer Louis Hémon is set on the shores of the Peribonka River and it was completed on March 9,2008, and has a capacity of 385 MW. The dam is 80 metres high and 700 metres long, creating a reservoir with an area of 32 square kilometres, Quebec Studies on power and the Peribonka River
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Peribonka River
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Mistassini River
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The Mistassini River is a river in central Quebec, Canada, draining into the north-western portion of Lac Saint-Jean. It is 298 kilometres long and has an area of 21,900 square kilometres. Its source is between Eau Froide and De Vau Lakes in the northernmost portion of the Rivière-Mistassini Unorganized Territory, despite its name, Lake Mistassini is not in the drainage basin of the Mistassini River, but is about 80 km west from its source. The Mistassini River is easily confused with its tributary, the Mistassibi River, the upper portion of the river is characterized by a succession of rapids, waterfalls, and cascades. Only the last 25 kilometres, from its mouth to Dolbeau-Mistassini, is navigable, tributaries of the Mistassini River include the Papillon River, the Rivière des Framboises, the Rivière aux Rats, and the Mistassibi River. During the 17th century and first half of the 18th century, a 1679 map by Louis Jolliet shows the river with the name Kakigoua, meaning there where the sand is cut perpendicularly. Later the river is named Rivière aux Sables on maps by other such as Laure in 1731 and 1732, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon dAnville in 1755. During his journey in 1792, botanist André Michaux calls it the Mistassini River and it seems that the first topographic use of this name goes back to 1825. That year, Pascal Taché, Lord of Kamouraska, publishes a document in which he gives the name Mistassini to the river. Also, prominent Canadian paleontologist Diamanto DeParkington discovered Allosaurus bones near the base in 1992
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Mistassini River
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Mistassini River at the
City of Dolbeau-Mistassini
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Quebec Route 167
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Route 167 is an isolated provincial highway in Quebec, Canada. It begins at the shore of Lac Saint-Jean in Saint-Félicien and it proceeds north-west to Chibougamau 232 km away. There are no services along this long stretch, at Chibougamau, the highway turns north-east towards Mistissini. Maps are conflicting about the northernmost extent of this highway, the latest provincial road map shows the highway ending 16 km south of Mistissini, while the pavement does continue to the town itself. According to Ministère des transports publication Distances routières, the route continues up as far as Lac-Albanel, the 240 km extension to the Stornaway Renard Mine was completed in 2014. The first deliveries of liquified natural gas, by truck, with the new road where made on June 2016 to the Renard Mine, list of Quebec provincial highways Interactive Provincial Route Map Route 167 on Google Maps
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Route 167
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Canoe camping
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Canoe camping is a combination of canoeing, long-distance travel, and camping. Like backpacking, canoe campers carry enough with them to travel and camp for several days, Canoe camping is primarily practiced in North America. A canoeist can transport significantly heavier and bulkier loads than a backpacker or kayaker, portaging by foot is sometimes necessary to pass between water bodies or around hazardous obstacles such as rapids or waterfalls, but most of the time canoe campers travel on water. Because they usually dont continuously carry their gear on their backs, canoe campers can bring more food and gear and undertake longer trips. This is especially the case with food which, unlike gear where the weight is fixed regardless of the trip duration. Trips may need to have extra days built into the schedule in case of weather delays, although most experienced canoeists feel comfortable paddling straight through large bodies of water, most typically stay within a few hundred meters of shore. Since a fully loaded canoe only draws 12 to 16 cm and this proximity lets the canoeist observe aquatic and near-shore plants and wildlife from a perspective that walking on solid ground does not allow. Many people engage in fishing while canoe camping, compared to backpacking, canoeing produces less noise, with no crunching boots and bouncing packs, and a lower level of exertion. The versatility of canoe tripping allows canoeists to go places and see things that otherwise could not. Many canoeists use specialized Duluth packs designed for both easy portaging and loading into canoes, waterproof dry bags are frequently used to keep important items dry in case of inclement weather or capsizing. Native Americans of many different tribes who used canoes for transportation, the canoe was perfect for this purpose - light and relatively easy to carry, fast, able to traverse a wide variety of different water ways, and able to carry large loads. It was for all reasons that the early French explorers of North America, such as Louis Jolliet. With them came Jesuit missionaries, coureurs des bois, and voyageurs, once trading posts were established in the interior, the canoe continued to be the primary transportation method, supplying such posts with regular canoe brigades. In northern Quebec, this continued until the middle of the 20th century. As the wilderness of the Americas was tamed by the construction of the railroad and later roads and it turned into a recreational sport, a way for Americans and others to experience the pre-European America, and have a glimpse of a formerly never-ending wilderness. The history of the Grand Portage, MN is an excellent metaphorical microcosm for the larger change, an early proponent and popularizer of canoe camping was George W. He was 64 years old and in health at the time. The adventure memoir Canoeing with the Cree relates Eric Sevareids youthful journey with a companion from Minnesota to Hudson Bay in 1930, calvin Rutstrum was a wilderness canoeist and author, whom Bill Mason said totally influenced me and he became my hero
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Canoe camping in the
Adirondacks.
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Voyageurs at Dawn by F.A. Hopkins (1871) - during their trips, expedition canoe travel was a way of life for French voyageurs. This painting well shows the rudimentary camping practices of the voyageurs.
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Innu-aimun language
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Innu-aimun or Montagnais is an Algonquian language spoken by over 10,000 Innu in Labrador and Quebec in Eastern Canada. It is a member of the Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi dialect continuum and is spoken in various dialects depending on the community, the lyrics of Akua Tuta are featured on over 50 websites, making this one of the most broadly accessible pieces of text written in any native North American language. Florent Vollant has also rendered several well-known Christmas carols into Innu in his 1999 album Nipaiamianan, in 2013, a comprehensive pan-Innu dictionary, covering all the Innu dialects spoken in Quebec and Labrador published in Innu, English and French. Innu-aimun has the following phonemes, /l/ is written as n in standard orthography and only exists in the western dialects Mashteuiatsh, other dialects use /n/ in those positions. The voiceless plosive are voiced to between vowels, long vowels, î /i/, e /e~ɛ/, â /a/, û /o/ Short vowels, i /ɪ~ə/, a /ʌ~ə/, u /o~ʊ~u/ The circumflex accents over the long vowels are omitted in general writing. Innu-aimun is a polysynthetic, head-marking language with relatively free word order and its three basic parts of speech are nouns, verbs, and particles. Nouns are grouped into two genders, animate and inanimate, and may carry affixes indicating plurality, possession, obviation, verbs are divided into four classes based on their transitivity, animate intransitive, inanimate intransitive, transitive inanimate, and transitive animate. Verbs may carry affixes indicating agreement, tense, mood, two different sets, or orders, of verbal affixes are used depending on the verbs syntactic context. In simple main clauses, the verb is marked using affixes of the independent order, whereas in subordinate clauses and content-word questions, Innu-aimun is related to East Cree spoken by the James Bay Cree of the James Bay region of Quebec and Ontario and the Atikamekw of the Atikamekw. Innu-aimun is divided into four dialects - Southern Montagnais, Eastern Montagnais, Central Montagnais, the speakers of the different dialects can communicate well with each other. The Naskapi language and culture are different from those of the Montagnais. North-West River Montagnais, A grammatical sketch, national Museum of Man Mercury Series,80. Morphology, An international handbook on inflection and word formation, vol, berlin, New York, Walter de Gruyter. Labrador Innu-aimun, An introduction to the Sheshatshiu dialect, st. Johns, Newfoundland, Department of Linguistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Québec, Presses de lUniversité du Québec,940 p. Online pan-Innu dictionary Innu-aimun. ca Information about the language. Innu Aimun orthography and phonology Native Languages page for Montagnais Innu OLAC resources in and about the Montagnais language
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"Buckle up your children" sign in Innu-aimun, in the Pointe-Parent reserve near Natasquan, Quebec.
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Louis Jolliet
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Louis Jolliet was a French Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America. Jolliet and Jesuit Father Jacques Marquette, a Catholic priest and missionary, were the first non-Natives to explore, Jolliet was born in 1645 in a French settlement near Quebec City. When he was seven years old, his father died but his mother remarried a successful merchant, Jolliets stepfather owned land on the Ile dOrleans, an island in the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec that was home to First Nations. Jolliet spent much time on Ile dOrleans, so it was likely that he began speaking Aboriginal languages at a young age, during his childhood, Quebec was the center of the French fur trade. The Natives were part of life in Quebec, and Joliet grew up knowing a lot about them. He entered a Jesuit school as a child and focused on philosophical and religious studies and he also studied music, becoming a skilled harpsichordist and church organist. Yet he decided to leave the seminary as an adult and pursued fur trading instead, Jolliet attended a Jesuit school in Quebec and received minor orders in 1662, but abandoned his plans to become a priest in 1667. He spoke French, English, and Spanish, de Soto had named the river Rio del Espiritu Santo, but tribes along its length called it variations of Mississippi. On May 17,1673, Jolliet and Marquette departed from St. Ignace Michigan with two canoes and five voyageurs of French-Indian ancestry. The group followed Lake Michigan to the end of Green Bay and they then paddled upstream on the Fox River to the site now known as Portage, Wisconsin. There, they portaged a distance of less than two miles through marsh and oak forest to the Wisconsin River. Europeans eventually built a trading post at that shortest convenient portage between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins, on June 17, the canoeists ventured onto the Mississippi River near present-day Prairie du Chien. The Jolliet-Marquette expedition traveled down the Mississippi to within 435 miles of the Gulf of Mexico and they turned back north at the mouth of the Arkansas River. By this point, they had encountered natives carrying European goods, the voyageurs then followed the Mississippi back to the mouth of the Illinois River, which friendly natives told them was a shorter route back to the Great Lakes. Following the Illinois river upstream, they turned up its tributary the Des Plaines River near modern-day Joliet. They then continued up the Des Plaines river, and portaged their canoes and they then followed the Chicago River downstream until they reached Lake Michigan near the location of modern-day Chicago. Father Marquette stayed at the mission of St. Francis Xavier at the end of Green Bay. Joliet returned to Quebec to relate the news of their discoveries, Marquette returned to what later became the Illinois Country in late 1674
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Alfred Laliberté 's Louis Jolliet sculpture in front of
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Ca. 1681 map of Marquette and Jolliet's 1673 expedition.
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Plaque commemorating Jolliet in Chicago.
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Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin
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Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin was born at Saint-Michel de Villebernin, France in 1650. He died in France around 1712 and he was a cartographer, a royal hydrographer, and a teacher of navigation. He was also the first official cartographer in Canada, between 1674 and 1708, Franquelin drew around 50 detailed illustrated manuscript maps of New France. Franquelin came to Canada as a trader in 1671, New France Governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac recognized his talents and recruited him to draw maps. He recorded the explorations of Louis Jolliet and René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle between 1674 and 1684, the King appointed him royal hydrographer in 1688. He went to France in 1692 to complete a series of maps on the New England coast and he had 13 children, but unfortunately, his wife and ten of his children drowned in a shipwreck in 1693, near of Sept-Iles, Quebec. He held his Canadian appointment from 1686 to 1697 and again from 1701 to 1703, however, from 1694 to 1707, he worked for Louis XIVth military engineer Vauban, and he never returned to Canada. Carte de France septentrionale Maps on Wikimedia Commons See Charbonneau, p. 46–52,48 maps 34 maps at Newberry Library Cartographic Catalog Burke-Gaffney, M. W. Franquelin, in, Dictionary of Canadian Biography André Charbonneau. « Cartobibliographie de Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin », in, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, vol. 11,1972, p. 39–52 — The list of maps is an attempt at exhaustivity, Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin. Notes pour servir à lhistoire, à la bibliographie et à la cartographie de la Nouvelle-France et des pays adjacents, dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord. Presses de lUniversité Laval, p.314
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1688 Map of North America with a pictorial view of Quebec City by Franquelin
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Guillaume Delisle
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Guillaume Delisle, also spelled Guillaume de lIsle, was a French cartographer known for his popular and accurate maps of Europe and the newly explored Americas and Europe. Deslile was the son of Marie Malaine and Claude Delisle, who later remarried Charlotte Millet de la Croyère after his first wife died following childbirth and it is possible that the couple had as many as 12 children, but many of them died at a young age. Although Claude Delisle had studied law, he taught history. Guillaume and his two of half-brothers, Joseph Nicolas and Louis, ended up pursuing similar careers in science, while Claude certainly has to be given credit for Guillaume’s education, the latter showed early signs of being an exceptional talent. He would soon contribute to the workshop by drawing maps for his father’s historical works. In order to perfect his skills, Guillaume Delisle became the student of the astronomer Jean-Dominique Cassini, early on he produced high quality maps, the first being his Carte de la Nouvelle-France et des Pays Voisins in 1696. At 27, Delisle was admitted into the French Académie Royale des Sciences, after that date, he signed his maps with the title of “Géographe de l’Académie”. Five years later, he moved to the Quai de l’Horloge in Paris, Delisle’s ascension through the ranks culminated in 1718 when he received the title of Premier Géographe du Roi. His new office consisted in teaching geography to the Dauphin, King Louis XIV’s son, again, Claude Delisle’s reputation as a man of science probably helped Guillaume. In Delisle’s case, it could be said that his accomplishments surpassed his father’s, like many cartographers of his day, Delisle did not travel with the explorers and elaborated the maps mostly in his office. The quality of his maps depended on a network that would provide him first-hand information. Given the family’s reputation and his own, Delisle had access to fairly recent accounts of travellers who were coming back from the New World, being a member of the Académie, he was also aware of recent discoveries, especially in astronomy and measurement. When he could not confirm the accuracy of his source, he would indicate it clearly on his maps, Delisles search for exactitude and intellectual honesty entangled him in a legal dispute in 1700 with Jean-Baptiste Nolin, a fellow cartographer. Noticing Nolin had used details that were considered original from his Map of the World, in the end, Delisle managed to convince the jury of scientists that Nolin only knew the old methods of cartography and therefore that he had stolen the information from his manuscript. Nolins maps were confiscated and he was forced to pay the court costs, the scientificity of the work produced by the Delisle family contrasted with the workshop of Sanson. While Sanson knowingly published outdated facts and mistakes, Delisle strived to present up-to-date knowledge, after Guillaume Delisles death in 1726, his widow tried to preserve the workshop and protect the family. She appealed to the king with the help of the abbot Bignon, by that time, Guillaumes brothers Joseph-Nicolas and Louis had already left to serve Peter the Great in Russia. The youngest Delisle, Simon Claude, lacked practical knowledge in cartography, the Delisle workshop was then bequeathed to Philippe Buache
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1700 map by De L'Isle of North America, reissued by Covens and Mortier in 1708.
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Delisle's 1707 map of North Africa
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Delisle's Carte d'Amérique, 1722
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Hudson Bay
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Hudson Bay is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of 1,230,000 square kilometres. Hudson Bays southern arm is called James Bay, the Eastern Cree name for Hudson and James Bay is Wînipekw or Wînipâkw, meaning muddy or brackish water. Lake Winnipeg is similarly named by the local Cree, as is the location for the city of Winnipeg, Hudson Bay encompasses 1,230,000 square kilometres, making it the second-largest bay in the world. The bay is shallow and is considered an epicontinental sea. It is about 1,370 km long and 1,050 km wide, on the east it is connected with the Atlantic Ocean by Hudson Strait, on the north, with the Arctic Ocean by Foxe Basin, and Fury and Hecla Strait. Geographic coordinates, 78° to 95° W, 51° to 70° N. Hudson Bay is part of the North Atlantic Ocean, sometimes the Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait basins are considered part of the Arctic Ocean even though their waters flow predominantly to the Atlantic. Some sources describe Hudson Bay as a sea of the Atlantic Ocean. English explorers and colonists named Hudson Bay after Sir Henry Hudson who explored the bay beginning August 2,1610 on his ship Discovery. On his fourth voyage to North America, Hudson worked his way around Greenlands west coast and into the bay, Discovery became trapped in the ice over the winter, and the crew survived onshore at the southern tip of James Bay. When the ice cleared in the spring, Hudson wanted to explore the rest of the area and they left Hudson and others adrift in a small boat. No one knows the fate of Hudson or the crew members stranded with him, in 1668, Nonsuch reached the bay and traded for beaver pelts, leading to the creation of the Hudsons Bay Company which still bears the historic name. The HBC negotiated a trading monopoly from the British crown for the Hudson Bay watershed, called Ruperts Land, france contested this grant by sending several military expeditions to the region, but abandoned its claim in the Treaty of Utrecht. See Anglo-French conflicts on Hudson Bay, during this period, the Hudsons Bay Company built several forts and trading posts along the coast at the mouth of the major rivers. The strategic locations were bases for inland exploration, more importantly, they were trading posts with the indigenous peoples who came to them with furs from their trapping season. The HBC shipped the furs to Europe and continued to use these posts until the beginning of the 20th century, the port of Churchill is still an important shipping link for trade with Europe and Russia. HBCs trade monopoly was abolished in 1870, and it ceded Ruperts Land to Canada, starting in 1913, the Bay was extensively charted by the Canadian Governments CSS Acadia to develop it for navigation. This mapping progress led to the establishment of Churchill, Manitoba as a port for wheat exports in 1929. Due to a change in naming conventions, Hudsons Bay is now called Hudson Bay, as a result, the names of the body of water and the company are often mistaken for one another
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Ice begins to form in early November at Hudson Bay.
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Hudson Bay, Canada
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In late spring (May), large chunks of ice float near the eastern shore of the bay, while to the west, the center of the bay remains frozen. Between 1971 and 2007, the length of the ice-free season in the southwestern part of the Hudson Bay—historically the last area to thaw—increased by about seven days.
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North West Company
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The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudsons Bay Company in what is present-day Western Canada, with great wealth at stake, tensions between the companies increased to the point where several minor armed skirmishes broke out, and the two companies were forced to merge. In 1987, the trading posts of the Hudsons Bay Company were sold to an employee consortium that revived the name The North West Company in 1990. After the French landed in Quebec in 1608, coureurs des bois spread out, the French competed with the Dutch and English in New York and the English in Hudson Bay. Unlike the French who travelled into the interior, the English were based at trading posts on Hudson Bay. After 1731, La Vérendrye pushed trade west beyond Lake Winnipeg, after the British conquest in 1763, management of the fur trading posts was taken over by English-speakers. These so-called pedlars began to merge because competition cost them money, in the winter of 1783-84, the North West Company was officially created on a long-term basis, with its corporate offices on Vaudreuil Street in Montreal. The wintering partners and the Montreal agents met each July at the Companys depot at Grand Portage on Lake Superior, later moved to Fort William, also under the auspices of the Company, Alexander Mackenzie conducted two important expeditions of exploration. These men pushed into the territories of the Rocky Mountains. The death of Benjamin Frobisher opened the door to a takeover of the North West Company by Simon McTavish, the firm of McTavish, Frobisher and Company, founded in November 1787, effectively controlled eleven of the company’s twenty outstanding shares. At the time the company consisted of 23 partners, but its staff of Agents, factors, clerks, guides, interpreters, in addition to Alexander Mackenzie, this group included Americans Peter Pond and Alexander Henry the elder. Further reorganizations of the partnership occurred in 1795 and 1802, the shares being subdivided each time to provide for more and more wintering partners. Vertical integration of the business was completed in 1792, when Simon McTavish and John Fraser formed a London house to supply goods and market the furs, McTavish, Fraser. While the organization and capitalization of the North West Company came from Anglo-Quebecers, in the northwest, the Company expanded its operations as far north as Great Bear Lake, and westwards beyond the Rocky Mountains. For several years, they tried to sell directly to China, using American ships to avoid the British East India Companys monopoly. The company also expanded into the United States Northwest Territory, in 1796, to better position themselves in the increasingly global market, where politics played a major role, the North West Company briefly established an agency in New York City. The company tried to persuade the British Parliament to change arrangements and it is said that Simon McTavish made a personal petition to Prime Minister William Pitt, but all requests were refused. A few years later, with no relief to the Hudsons Bay Companys stranglehold, McTavish and they organized an overland expedition from Montreal to James Bay and a second expedition by sea
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North West Company - Coat of Arms
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Simon McTavish (above) dominated the company until his death in 1804. His nephew William McGilivray ran it until the merger of 1821.
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Lake Mistassini
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Lake Mistassini is the largest natural lake by surface area in the province of Quebec, Canada, with a total surface area of approximately 2,335 km² and a net area of 2,164 km². It is located in the Jamésie region of the province, approximately 360 kilometers east of James Bay, the Cree town of Mistissini is located on Watson Peninsula in the south-east corner of the lake, which separates Baie du Poste from Abatagouche Bay. Extensive forests of Spruce, Birch, Pine, and Fir trees, significant tributaries flowing into the lake include, Chalifour, Pépeshquasati, Takwa, Témiscamie, and Wabissinane. Other nearby lakes include Lake Troilus, in 2016, it was reported that the arc shaped lake, together with nearby Lake Albanel, may have been formed by a large meteor impact about 2.1 billion years ago. The rest of the 500 km diameter crater is thought to have now mostly eroded away or buried. If confirmed this would be the largest impact crater found on the earth, over the centuries, it went through many name changes and different spellings. In 1664, on a map by Ducreux, this lake was known as Outakgami, on maps by Jolliet, Jaillot and Franquelin, the lake was identified as Timagaming. In 1703, the cartographer Guillaume Delisle used the same name, laure and Bellin showed on their maps the name Lake Mistassins. Other spelling variations of this Native American designation included, Mistacinnee, Mistacsinney, Mistasinne, Mistasinia, in 1808, James McKenzie of the North West Company used the name Lake Mistassini in his writings, the first use of the name in its current form. In the summer of 1948 Rogers and Rogers found 121 prehistoric sites in the region about Lake Mistassini and Albanel. At site 33, a sandy bank 15 to 20 feet high, at the time of Rogers research in 1948, First Nation people were actively still using campsites on 36% of the 121 prehistoric sites. The existence of large lake was known to French explorers for a long time before its actual discovery. Even Samuel de Champlain knew of it in 1603 and it was finally discovered by Europeans in 1663 as part of an expedition ordered by Governor DAvaugour and led by Guillaume Couture. He was accompanied by Pierre Duquet and Jean Langlois, as well as by Native American guides and they went up the Saguenay River, reached Lake Mistassini and continued on the Rupert River which flows to the Hudson Bay. Thereafter, Lake Mistassini became an important step along the route from the Saguenay to James Bay, in 1672, Charles Albanel crossed the lake in an official mission. On June 18,1672, he wrote, we entered the great Lake Mistassirinins, this Lake is named for the rocks with which it abounds, which are of prodigious size. That same year, a fur trading post was established on the lake and their traditional hunting grounds an area northeast of Lake Mistassini, were near the headwaters of the Eastman River and just south of Noakokan. Lake Indicator is near their southern boundary, Rogers observed that Lake Indicator was used as an early winter base for hunting and trapping and he noted the remains of an earth-covered conical lodge, four house pits, and a log cabin
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Satellite image of Lakes Mistassini and Albanel
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Map of Lake Mistassini
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Rupert River
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The Rupert River is one of the largest rivers in Quebec, Canada. From its headwaters in Lake Mistassini, the largest natural lake in Quebec, the Rupert drains an area of 43,400 square kilometres. There is some extremely large whitewater on the river, but paddlers can avoid much of it by portage routes on the side. The most impressive falls, which cannot be avoided except by portaging, are the Oatmeal Rapids right at the James Bay Road, the Rupert has long been an important river for the Cree of the area. Every year, a group of Cree youth from the village of Waskaganish, at the mouth of the Rupert, lawrence River and in doing so, trying to break the French hold on the fur trade. They named the river after the sponsor of the expedition, Prince Rupert, a fort was established at the mouth of the river, which later became the trading post Rupert House, the oldest trading post of the Hudsons Bay Company. While having lost its importance as a route, the Rupert River has long been a popular destination for recreational canoe camping. The Rupert, together with the Nottaway and Broadback Rivers, was considered to be dammed and diverted as part of the James Bay Project. But in 1972, hydro-electric development began on the more northerly La Grande and Eastmain Rivers, the Grand Chief of the Crees, Matthew Mukash, elected in late 2005, opposed the Rupert diversion project, preferring the development of wind turbines in the region. The diversion of water from the river began in November,2009, the remaining work was scheduled to be complete in 2012. com Rupert River Archive The Rupert River
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Rupert River (Rivière Rupert)
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The Oatmeal Rapids on the Rupert River.
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The Rupert River lookout
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The Rupert River at the
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Log driving
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Log driving is a means of moving logs from a forest to sawmills and pulp mills downstream using the current of a river. It was the transportation method of the early logging industry in Europe. Later, bigger circular sawmills were developed in the reaches of a river. In the broader, slower stretches of a river, the logs might be bound together into timber rafts, in the smaller, wilder stretches of a river, rafts couldnt get through, so masses of individual logs were driven down the river like huge herds of cattle. The log drive was one step in a process of lumber-making in remote places. There the logs were decked onto rollways, in the spring when snow thawed and water levels rose, the logs were rolled into the river, and the drive commenced. To ensure that logs drifted freely along the river, men called log drivers or river pigs were needed to guide the logs, the drivers typically divided into two groups. The more experienced and nimble men comprised the jam crew or beat crew and they watched the spots where logs were likely to jam, and when a jam started, tried to get to it quickly and dislodge the key logs before many logs stacked up. If they didnt, the river would keep piling on more logs, millions of board feet of lumber could back up for miles upriver, requiring weeks to break up, with some lumber possibly lost if it was shoved far enough into the shallows. So when the jam crew saw a jam start, they rushed to it and tried to break it up, using peaveys and this job required some understanding of physics, strong muscles, and extreme agility. The jam crew was a dangerous occupation, with the drivers standing on the moving logs. Many drivers lost their lives by falling and being crushed by the logs, each crew was accompanied by an experienced boss often selected for his fighting skills to control the strong and reckless men of his team. The overall drive was controlled by the boss who moved from place to place to coordinate the various teams to keep logs moving past problem spots. Stalling a drive near a saloon often created a cascade of drunken personnel problems, a larger group of less experienced men brought up the rear, pushing along the straggler logs that were stuck on the banks and in trees. They spent more time wading in icy water than balancing on moving logs and they were called the rear crew. Other men worked with them from the bank, pushing logs away with pike poles, others worked with horses and oxen to pull in the logs that had strayed furthest out into the flats. Bateaux ferried log drivers using pike poles to dislodge stranded logs while maneuvering with the log drive, a wannigan was a kitchen built on a raft which followed the drivers down the river. The wannigan served four meals a day to fuel the men working in cold water and it also provided tents and blankets for the night if no better accommodations were available
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Log drivers at
Klarälven in
Sweden.
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Log jam at
Berlin, New Hampshire.
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Log driver working for the
Brown Company in
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River drivers in Germany with a crude
pike pole the Germans call a rafters' hook (Flößerhaken, as in rafting logs), probably one or two
pickaroons and a
ring dog for rolling logs over.
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Atlantic salmon
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The Atlantic salmon is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae. It is found in the northern Atlantic Ocean, in rivers that flow into the north Atlantic and, due to human introduction, the Atlantic salmon was given its scientific binomial name by zoologist and taxonomist Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The name, Salmo salar, derives from the Latin salmo, meaning salmon, and salar, meaning leaper, according to M. Barton, lewis and Shorts Latin Dictionary translates salar as a kind of trout from its use in the Idylls of the poet Ausonius. Later, the differently coloured smolts were found to be the same species, other names used to reference Atlantic salmon are, bay salmon, black salmon, caplin-scull salmon, Sebago salmon, silver salmon, fiddler, or outside salmon. At different points in their maturation and life cycle, they are known as parr, smolt, grilse, grilt, kelt, slink, Atlantic salmon that do not journey to sea are known as landlocked salmon or ouananiche. The species is the longest and heaviest in genus Salmo, after two years at sea, the fish average 71 to 76 cm in length and 3.6 to 5.4 kg in weight. But specimens that spend four or more winters feeding at sea can be much larger. An Atlantic salmon netted in 1960 in Scotland, in the estuary of the river Hope, was weighed in at 49.44 kg, the colouration of young Atlantic salmon does not resemble the adult stage. While they live in water, they have blue and red spots. At maturity, they take on a silver-blue sheen, the easiest way of identifying them as an adult is by the black spots predominantly above the lateral line, though the caudal fin is usually unspotted. When they reproduce, males take on a green or red colouration. The salmon has a body, and well-developed teeth. All fins, save the adipose, are bordered with black, the distribution of Atlantic salmon depends on water temperature. Because of climate change, some of the southern populations, in Spain. Before human influence, the breeding grounds of Atlantic salmon were rivers in Europe. When North America was settled by Europeans, eggs were brought on trains to the west coast, other attempts to bring Atlantic salmon to new settlements were made, e. g. But since there are no suitable ocean currents on New Zealand, there is at least one landlocked population of Atlantic salmon on New Zealand, where the fish never go out to sea. Young salmon spend one to four years in their natal river, when they are large enough, they smoltify, changing camouflage from stream-adapted with large, gray spots to sea-adapted with shiny sides
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Atlantic salmon
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Atlantic salmon are among the largest salmon species
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Very young fertilized salmon eggs, notice the developing eyes and
neural tube
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Wayback Machine
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The Internet Archive launched the Wayback Machine in October 2001. It was set up by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, and is maintained with content from Alexa Internet, the service enables users to see archived versions of web pages across time, which the archive calls a three dimensional index. Since 1996, the Wayback Machine has been archiving cached pages of websites onto its large cluster of Linux nodes and it revisits sites every few weeks or months and archives a new version. Sites can also be captured on the fly by visitors who enter the sites URL into a search box, the intent is to capture and archive content that otherwise would be lost whenever a site is changed or closed down. The overall vision of the machines creators is to archive the entire Internet, the name Wayback Machine was chosen as a reference to the WABAC machine, a time-traveling device used by the characters Mr. Peabody and Sherman in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, an animated cartoon. These crawlers also respect the robots exclusion standard for websites whose owners opt for them not to appear in search results or be cached, to overcome inconsistencies in partially cached websites, Archive-It. Information had been kept on digital tape for five years, with Kahle occasionally allowing researchers, when the archive reached its fifth anniversary, it was unveiled and opened to the public in a ceremony at the University of California, Berkeley. Snapshots usually become more than six months after they are archived or, in some cases, even later. The frequency of snapshots is variable, so not all tracked website updates are recorded, Sometimes there are intervals of several weeks or years between snapshots. After August 2008 sites had to be listed on the Open Directory in order to be included. As of 2009, the Wayback Machine contained approximately three petabytes of data and was growing at a rate of 100 terabytes each month, the growth rate reported in 2003 was 12 terabytes/month, the data is stored on PetaBox rack systems manufactured by Capricorn Technologies. In 2009, the Internet Archive migrated its customized storage architecture to Sun Open Storage, in 2011 a new, improved version of the Wayback Machine, with an updated interface and fresher index of archived content, was made available for public testing. The index driving the classic Wayback Machine only has a bit of material past 2008. In January 2013, the company announced a ground-breaking milestone of 240 billion URLs, in October 2013, the company announced the Save a Page feature which allows any Internet user to archive the contents of a URL. This became a threat of abuse by the service for hosting malicious binaries, as of December 2014, the Wayback Machine contained almost nine petabytes of data and was growing at a rate of about 20 terabytes each week. Between October 2013 and March 2015 the websites global Alexa rank changed from 162 to 208, in a 2009 case, Netbula, LLC v. Chordiant Software Inc. defendant Chordiant filed a motion to compel Netbula to disable the robots. Netbula objected to the motion on the ground that defendants were asking to alter Netbulas website, in an October 2004 case, Telewizja Polska USA, Inc. v. Echostar Satellite, No.02 C3293,65 Fed. 673, a litigant attempted to use the Wayback Machine archives as a source of admissible evidence, Telewizja Polska is the provider of TVP Polonia and EchoStar operates the Dish Network
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