Trapping Cabin
Maurice Newman's trapping cabin. He built this cabin all by himself. He stayed in a tent before he had the cabin. He cut a wide trail to the spot just before freeze-up. Maurice would drive his six dogs to the cabin, but leave them there and walk to check his trapline. He would walk one day out and then one day back. He'd carry a .22 rifle with him and shoot mink. The next day he'd walk out his other trapline. He'd get ten or twenty minks a trip, but remembers getting maybe 80 or 90 mink at his highest. He remembers that he used to get $90 for each mink when he sold the furs. He would eat lots of fish when out on the trapline. It used to take one and a half hours to get to the cabin by dog team when he went fast and had a straight route, now with snowmachines it's faster. This is a big change in how trapping is done. Maurice remembers the first snowmachine in Holy Cross around 1960, and that it got stuck. He helped pull the machine out of of the snow.