Life In The Boreal Forest

The highly detailed model of the buffalo jump is fascinating to look out, and I find you see more things each time you come to see it. 

Nothing was wasted. The bison were well used by those who held them with such reverence.

In the Maritimes, life was tied to the sea.

Tools seen here would have been used in making canoes for being out on the ocean.

Much of the country fell under the Boreal Forest, and still does. First Nations peoples made a life in this realm.

Some of the tools they would have used are seen here.

North of Lake Superior, a cache of their goods was recovered at the shore of Lake Nipigon.

The far north was a place of inhospitable climates. In time, various First Peoples would inhabit it in successive waves.

A small object is displayed here with high honours- one of the oldest depictions of a human face in North America, the face of a woman.