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RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS 21/2 year-old Stella Behrendt gets a sneak peek with her Grandmother, Charlene Slingsby, below the Nonsuch at the Manitoba Museum into the mysterious cargo hold area below the deck of the boat. It houses not only the ships stove used for cooking and heat during that maiden voyage to James Bay but also bunk areas for the crew. The Christmas season is the one time of year it is open for tours to the public to climb down below the deck of the replica of the 17th-century ship that sailed to Hudson Bay in 1668 in the first trading voyage for what was to become the Hudson's Bay Company two years later. The museum tours take place Saturdays and Sundays in December and every day throughout the winter holiday between 1:00 and 4:00 pm. Standup photo Dec 1, 2016