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Harold D. Weeks and the Manitoba RTL Trapline System
Harold Weeks career spanned Forestry work at Moose Lake and Thicket Portage, the Game Branch, and the 1940s muskrat ranch. He led the Registered Traplines program, creating defined trap areas, maps, and an RTL system that expanded to northern Manitoba with air support, aiding Treaty Indians and non Indians alike and transforming the fur industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandy McDonald
Lee Stevenson
R. Carr-Harris
Harold
Thicket Portage
Hudson Bay
University of Idaho
Tom Lamb
Moose Lake
Department of Mines and Natural Resources
Manitoba
H.B
L. Phinney
Pas
Winnipeg
Game, Lands and Surveys
Wabowden
Department of Indian Affairs
Hugh Conn
Ottawa
Air Service
R.T.L
E Rtl
RTL
The
Winnipeg Tribune