Talk:Alexander MacKenzie Heritage Trail
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[edit] Grease Trail
No doubt that's a redlink, partly a reminder to myself if nobody else to write an article on the Grease Trail, part of which the Alexander Mackenzie Heritage Trail follows (the Grease Trail was more of a network, in fact); which would have to go with an article on Grease (fermented fish guts) or whatever it might be dab'd as. Important part of early native history, and if I weren't just dropping by to add BC project tags I'd stop and add a line about the existence of the Grease Trail; but it would be better if it were at least stubbed so as not to redlink. Other New Caledonia and Contact-period First Nations culture/history/politics/wars article are greatly needed; perhaps should be a focus because we're in the bicentennial period of the histories involved; 2008 will be the 215th Anniversary of Mackenzie's Journey, but I'm more thinking of the founding of Fort McLeod, Fort Fraser, Fort St. James, etc in the '00s of the 1800s, and the importance of New Caledonian history at the time (there was more going on there than in the Lower Columbia, which has a lot more wikispace written on it so far). But for here, just wanted to comment on the need for a Grease Trail article, and mention of it here (trade routes are mentioned, but their basis in the grease should be mentioned; part of the tradition of them is that they were/are traceable on the landscape by leavings of the stuff on the route).Skookum1 01:45, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
