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Scott Stephen, an historian at Parks Canada, showcases a few artifacts in the collections at the Parks Canada office in Winnipeg that were recovered from various digs at the forks and area. Slate Pencil Fragment (21K57C4-4): Recovered from the site of Fort Gibraltar I, 1990. Slate pencils were used on writing slate to produce white chalk-like lines.  School children and administrators used this method of writing throughout the 19th century. Burrup Sons and Company made shipments to the Red River region in the mid 1800’s, and was likely the supplier of this pencil.  The pencil is broken on one side; the other side has been rasped to a point and the rasp marks, lines at the sharpened tip of the pencil parallel to the length, are still visible.  150924 - Thursday, September 24, 2015 -  MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS

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Scott Stephen, an historian at Parks Canada, showcases a few artifacts in the collections at the Parks Canada office in Winnipeg that were recovered from various digs at the forks and area. Slate Pencil Fragment (21K57C4-4): Recovered from the site of Fort Gibraltar I, 1990. Slate pencils were used on writing slate to produce white chalk-like lines. School children and administrators used this method of writing throughout the 19th century. Burrup Sons and Company made shipments to the Red River region in the mid 1800’s, and was likely the supplier of this pencil. The pencil is broken on one side; the other side has been rasped to a point and the rasp marks, lines at the sharpened tip of the pencil parallel to the length, are still visible. 150924 - Thursday, September 24, 2015 - MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS

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Scott Stephen, an historian at Parks Canada, showcases a few artifacts in the collections at the Parks Canada office in Winnipeg that were recovered from various digs at the forks and area. Slate Pencil Fragment (21K57C4-4): Recovered from the site of Fort Gibraltar I, 1990. Slate pencils were used on writing slate to produce white chalk-like lines.  School children and administrators used this method of writing throughout the 19th century. Burrup Sons and Company made shipments to the Red River region in the mid 1800’s, and was likely the supplier of this pencil.  The pencil is broken on one side; the other side has been rasped to a point and the rasp marks, lines at the sharpened tip of the pencil parallel to the length, are still visible.  150924 - Thursday, September 24, 2015 -  MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS

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