Many of the first white men to settle the north shore of Francois Lake were trappers who lived alone in small cabins. Isolated from each other, their homes linked by a rudimentary pack trail, most used the lake as a highway and lived according to their tenets. For this reason, by the time government officials began constructing a proper road to Colleymount in 1926, those who hadn鈥檛 succumbed to cabin fever or simply disappeared (sometimes without a trace) were fairly set in their ways.
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