Art Duval

The world did not know about North America, or at least it pretended to not know for a long time in our history. This is ironic because we often do the same thing today. We didn't know then, we knew, but we did not see, or pretended to not see what was there...we were told not to see. So here's land, here's people, but they must own the land, we we don't know or pretend we don't know and we will take that land...and continue to pretend we don't know in so many ways. We don't know their...

Wagons North Recently someone said their ancestors came by covered wagon to settle in Simcoe County. This sparked an interest as I wondered how did many settlers travel in Canada. My voyageur ancestors came by bateaux, from Drummond island in 1828. I write about them in other blogs. My Duval family likely arrived by Railroad, following the lumber industry slightly after the train came to town. (I also have a blog on them) Neither of those came by covered wagon, but that doesn't mean none did....

There is a strange need to cover up the history of the native people of North America. Nothing to see here it didn't happen, nobody did anything till WE got here. This sometimes results in people using the analogy of seeing what you want to see, like sitting and looking at clouds and seeing shapes in them. This is often meant to discredit sites but in ironic fact it proves often that these sites are real. We have the audacity sometimes in our society to assume we are the first to see things...