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Up the Gatineau! Article

This article was first published in Up the Gatineau! Volume 2.

The Gatineau Riverman

"Take me back to my home on the Gatineau.
To hills. sweet with scent of cedar and of pine,
Where Irish eyes, with the light of a blue bird's pinion,
Will, as of yore, look fondly into mine.

"Where a barefoot boy, I roamed in happy hours,
And climbed the trees to view the landscape o'er,
Catching glimpses of a ‘City with its crown of towers’,
Hearing songs from bells in steeples which evening bore
l‘m going home.“

Sogarth Aronn

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Gatineau River at Kirk's Ferry
The 'boom-men' in their 'pointer' on 'the sweep' - clearing logs from the shores of the Gatineau River - about 1890. Photo courtesy of Arthur H. Sherman.

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