Hello, I'm Nadine and I am 10 years old. I'm in grade five and I attend Mattawa McElligott Elementary School. I live in Lauder Township, about 45 minutes away from Mattawa. I really like where I live because it's very peaceful and barely any cars go by. My dad has been living here almost all his life and I've been here ever since I was one year old. Our property used to be owned by Booth Lumber. They used to own horses which used to pull logs out of the bush and the horses were kept in stables. They used horses instead of trucks. After the horses took out all of the cut logs, the horses took them to the Amable du Fond (river.) It was called a log drive that was 18 kilometers long. The logs ended up in Eau Claire at the sawmill. The people in Eau Claire might not have got all of the logs because of all the rocks that got in the way. Gravelle Chutes is what the workers at Booth Lumber used to call Amable Du Fond a long time ago. There was a Native trail where the Natives and Voyageurs used to go through Lake Manitou and ended up in Lauder Township. They used to trade lots and lots of furs such as beaver, muskrat, They probably also used to buy food too. This is a picture of the river that goes through our property.This picture is near my house behind my Uncle Fern's house. I think that the rapids are beautiful, and the scene is wonderful. It's a lot of fun if you go down the river with a tube, but watch out for leeches, logs and rocks. A lot of animals go there too. There are bears, beavers, moose, deer and so on. How great it is to live here.
