Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory. Volume II

Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory. Volume II.

Trip to Esquimaux BayGovernor's InstructionsMy Report to the CommitteeRecommend the Abandonment of Ungava SettlementSuccess of the Arctic Expedition conducted by Messrs. Dease and SimpsonReturn by Sea to Fort ChimoNarrowly escape Shipwreck in the Ungava RiverImpolitic Measure of the GovernorConsequent Distress at the Post 88 Statements in the Edinburgh Cabinet LibraryAlleged Kindness of the Hudson's Bay Company to the IndiansAnd GenerositySupport of MissionariesSupport withdrawnPreference of Roman CatholicsThe North-West CompanyConduct of a British PeerRivalry of the CompaniesCoalitionCharges against the North-West Company refuted 207 I started from Stuart's Lake on the 22d of February, and arrived at Fort Alexandria on the 8th of March. Although the upper parts of the district were yet buried in snow, it had disappeared in the immediate neighbourhood of the establishment, and everything wore the pleasing aspect of spring. Mr. F was about to remove to a new post he had erected on the west bank of the river. Horses were provided for us to perform the journey overland to Okanagan. We left on the 13th; on the 15th we encamped on the borders of Lac Vert, having experienced a violent snow-storm in the early part of the day. The lake and circumjacent country presented a beautiful scene; the spurs of the Rocky Mountains bounding the horizon and presenting a rugged outline enveloped in snowthe intervening space of wooded hill and dale clothed in the fresh verdure of the season; and the innumerable low points and islands in the lake contributing to the variety of the landscape. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 16864
Author: McLean, John
Release Date: Oct 13, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English