 Concluding the ceremony with a gunfire salute and drinks of "high wine" (a type of rum), the new ' or "Nor'wester" and his company would resume their journey.Following the American Revolution the Treaty of Paris set the international boundary between British North America and the United States along the line of water communication between Lake Superior and the Lake of the Woods.During the era of exploration there were three principal routes used by canoe brigades to connect these two lakes, all of which crossed the divide separating western Lake Superior from the Hudson Bay watershed