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Fred M. Dela Fosse

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Fred M. Dela Fosse

Fred M. Dela Fosse was an English-born settler who spent 1883 and 1884 working at Fort William and Port Arthur, and later wrote "Reminiscences of a Vagabond" for the Thunder Bay Historical Society.[1]

He describes shovelling coal for the CPR at the Plot, boarding at the Neebing House, working in a cordwood camp for Graham and Horne, and sawing wood and delivering the Port Arthur Sentinel in Port Arthur, as well as survey and canoe trips.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fred M. Dela Fosse, "Reminiscences of a Vagabond", Papers of the Thunder Bay Historical Society, 1926–1928 (Thunder Bay Historical Society, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Annual Reports), pp. 62–75 (scan pp. 256–269). archive.org.