Boucherville Settled in the 1880s and named after the storekeeper Edmund Boucher, Boucherville was a hamlet that housed a post office. This is where Du Vernet picked up his first letter from home, on July 21. The post office in Boucherville was the post office for all of the Rainy …
S. S. Keenora
S. S. Keenora The S.S. Keenora was a steamer built in 1897 to carry passengers and cargo. With her sixty-five-cabin capacity, the S.S. Keenora would travel up and down the Lake of the Woods and Rainy River, from Rat Portage to Little Forks. Du Vernet started his journey on the steamer on July 13 …
Reginald Bagshaw
Reginald Bagshaw Du Vernet met Reginald Heber Bagshaw and his wife Clara on an overnight visit to Little Forks on July 14-15. Bagshaw was a lay missionary and teacher at the government school at Little Forks Reserve. The son of an Anglican vicar, Reginald Bagshaw was born in 1869 at Braunstone …