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PORTAGE PATHS

path, at least, bore the noble title "Portage d' Récollets."[1]

In the Post Office Directory twelve states are today represented by an office bearing the name Portage or Portageville.

  1. These names were copied from Nolin's "Carte du Canada" (1756) and Bellin's "Partie Occidentale de la Nouvelle France" (1755), both in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.