Please stay in touch . We welcome your suggestions for improving the Learning Centre. F or more information, visit the White Oak Learning Centre page. W e have detailed information for teachers . I t is late June, early July 1798 at a major Northwest Company Fur Post in what is now Northern Minnesota.
Summer is in full swing.
The great expanses of blue sky and water causing one to marvel. The whisper of leaves floats along the breeze, Aspen, Birch,and Maple. The many varieties of Pines standing as sentinels among the rest. The smell of wood smoke is sharp from the campfires of the Native American village nearby, the haphazard camps of the voyageur, and the separate campsites of the travelers from further inland that have come to trade their winter beaver and furs for goods. S urrounded by the vastness of wilderness, the company post is crowded with small single buildings surrounded by the stockade and bastions, the Great Hall gleaming in contrast.