My family has deep roots in our near north, which span the time when the Hudson's Bay Company first arrived here, at Moose Factory where their first major trading post was created by Joseph Isbister. Our Orkneuy Scottish family sent 14 young men over 150 years from just the one farm in Firth and Stennes on Orkney, as well as so many cousins. The rivermouth communities in the north were all created considering the fur trade. The Moose River, the Albany River, the Attawapiskat River, the Ekwan River, the Winisk River, the Severn River....all flowing into the salt water from Northern Ontario, established trade outpost villages at their mouths. Every spring native trappers floated downstream in the high water, with canoes laden with rich soft furs destined for England and Europe. If Kathlene Wynne wanted to really do something for the native north, she could start by wearing a fur coat, and presenting herself as a pro fur-trade premier. She would be Fur Trader #1 in Canada...a comeback.