In 1995 a winter presentation was made at Fort Edmonton where Paul Kane recorded having a most interesting Chistmas dinner in 1847.
At the head, before Mr. Harriett, was a large dish of boiled buffalo hump; at the foot smoked a boiled buffalo calf. Start not, gentle reader, the calf is very small, and is taken from the cow by Caesarean operation long before it attains its full growth. This boiled whole, is one of the most esteemed dishes amongst the epicures of the interior. My pleasing duty was to help a dish of mouffle, or dried moose nose; the gentleman on my left distributed, with graceful impartiality, the white fish, delicately browned in buffalo tongue whilst Mr. Rundell cut up the beavers' tails.
A "voyageur" at Fort Edmonton enjoying our Paul Kane sketchbook
Future presentations will be made in Ireland and the United States during sesquicentennial celebrations.
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