Linda Rochon

Wow, this definitely was my Dad's cabin! His name was O'Neil (Peanut) Rochon, he passed in 2014. He did have his brother-in-law, my Uncle Ron Kirouac out there with him during hunting, he was much younger and my father treated him like a son and gave him half of his trapline. Our family walked to the boathouse on the Mattagami river almost every weekend when I was growing up, stopped for gas and Kentucky Fried Chicken just by the bridge on our way there and travelled 16 miles by water to spend time here. My father didn't have a driver's licence so there was no need for road access. There was a fresh spring water brook just to the right of it and the water was always ice cold. We had bunk beds at the far back... My father made a swing on the big hill on the left that used to swing over a homemade table and the outdoor jon was partway up the hill on the right....it sure looks like it's had better days. My father was a Hollinger Gold miner and editor and became an electrician later in life. He hunted, fished and trapped all his life and he taught me a lot about the ways of our ancestors, we are Métis. Finding these pics was a real blast from the past, sad to see how decrepit it looks now but it sure brings back a lot of memories, thank you so, so very much for publishing this! Linda Rochon