Living on land that was ranched more than 100 years ago can offer surprises and a glimpse of what living was like during the past century.
At Lac des Roches, I live on a piece of, what was, two great ranching operations - the MacDonald family in the early 1900s, followed by Gardner Boultbee in the 1940s.
Long before these pioneers, fur traders and indigenous people moved periodically through the property on a portion of the well-documented Hudson’s Bay Fur Brigade Trail.
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