Photos: A rendezvous with the past at Grand Portage
Claire Sparling walks past the wall outside the Grand Portage National Monument last Friday during Rendezvous Days in Grand Portage, Minn.
The three-day event celebrates and recreates the intersection of Ojibwe people and the North West Company and their people, explorers and traders during its heyday in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
Sparling, a Winnipeg native, dressed in period costume as a tailor, but made it clear that women of that profession were not common fixtures at the site. "Women in my profession would not normally be at a place like Grand Portage in the late 1700s and early 1800s, but rather in some place like Quebec," Sparling said.
Derek Montgomery for MPR News
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