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Printable version; Page information; ... Exhibit in the Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Photography was permitted in the museum ...
Various items in Aomori Prefecture featuring kogin-zashi patterns. Kogin-zashi (こぎん刺し) is one of the techniques of sashiko, or traditional Japanese decorative reinforcement stitching, that originated in the part of present-day Aomori Prefecture controlled by the Tsugaru clan during the Edo period (1603-1867).
Many sashiko patterns were derived from Chinese designs, but just as many were developed by native Japanese embroiderers; for example, the style known as kogin-zashi, which generally consists of diamond-shaped patterns in horizontal rows, is a distinctive variety of sashiko that was developed in Aomori Prefecture.
In fur trade days the Missinaibi was the main route between James Bay and Lake Superior. The route was: James Bay, Moose Factory, Moose River, Missinaibi River, Missinaibi Lake, portage probably via Crooked Lake, Dog Lake, Michipicoten River to Fort Michipicoten on Lake Superior. Trade was contested by the English from the north and the French ...
During the Woodland period, Cree and Ojibwe peoples travelled Missinaibi Lake as part of their waterway network linking the Great Lakes with James Bay.French explorers Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard Chouart des Groseilliers may have passed the lake during their Lake Superior expedition of 1659, while the first written record about the lake is a French account from 1666.
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Not all National Topographic System maps strictly follow the National Tiling System's linear grid. Some maps also, as an "overedge", cover land in an area which would otherwise be covered by an adjacent map sheet, simply because the latter area does not contain enough land in Canada to warrant a separate printing. [4] [clarification needed]
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