A Ton of Stuff
Mar 01, 2022
2 minutes
by Andrew Matthews
Three pounds of food per day for a year. That’s the amount the Canadian North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) told prospectors to plan to bring if they wanted to cross into Canada in 1897. The recommended food weighed about a half ton. But that’s not all. Miners needed to bring the appropriate clothing to survive Yukon’s
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