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F O R T C H I P E W Y A N TO F O R T M ' M U E R A Y 105
But old as t i e fort is, i t lias no relies— not even a venerable
cabin. In the store were a couple of not very ancient
flint- locks, and, upstairs, rummaging through some dusty
shelves, I came across one volume of the Edinburgh, or
second, edition of Burns i n gray paper boards— a terrible
temptation, which was nobly resisted. Though there was once
a valuable l i b r a ry here, with many books now rare and costly,
yet all had disappeared.
East of the fort are shelving masses of red granite, completely
covered by a dark orange lichen, which gives them
an added warmth and richness: and on the highest part
stood a square lead sun- dial, which, at first sight, I thought
had surely been set up by F r a n k l i n or Richardson, but
which I was told was very modern indeed, and put up, if
I am not mistaken, by M r . Ogilvie, D . L . S . To the west
of the fort is the Church of England Mission, and. farther
up, the Roman Catholic establishment, the headquarters of
our esteemed fellow- voyager, Bishop Grouard.* In line
with the fort buildings, and facing the lake, stood a row of
whitewashed cottages, all giving the place, w i t h its environs,
deeply indented shore and rugged spits of red granite, the
• The first Roman Catholic Mission in Athabasca was formed by
Bishop Farrand the year after Bishop Tache" s visit to Fort Chipewyan,
about A. D. 1S49, he being then a missionary priest. Bishop
Farrand established other missions on Peace River, and went as far
north as Fort Resolution, on Great Slave Lake. He died in 1890, and
was succeeded by our guest, Bishop Grouard, O. M. I., Eveque d'Ibora,
the present occupant of the See of Athabasca and Mackenzie River.
This prelate was born at Le Mans, in France, and was educated
there, but finished his education in Quebec. He was ordained by
Bishop Tach£, near Montreal, in 1862, and was sent at once to Chipewyan,
where he learnt the difficult language of the natives in a year.
He has worked at many points, and perhaps no man in all the North,
with the exception of Archdeacon Macdonald, or the late Anglican
Bishop Bompas, has or had as accurate a knowledge of the great
Dene race, with its nume- ous subdivisions of Chipewyans, Beavers,
Yellow Knives, Dog Ribs, Slaves, Nahanies, Rabbit Skins, Loucheairx,
or Squint Eyes ( so named from the prevalence of strabismus
amongst them), and of other tribes. All these were at one time not
only at war with the Crees, but with each other, with the exception
of the Slaves, who were always a tame and meek- spirited race, and
were often subjected to and treated like dogs by the others. Indeed
they were called by the Crees, Awughkanuk, meaning " cattle."
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| OCR | F O R T C H I P E W Y A N TO F O R T M ' M U E R A Y 105 But old as t i e fort is, i t lias no relies— not even a venerable cabin. In the store were a couple of not very ancient flint- locks, and, upstairs, rummaging through some dusty shelves, I came across one volume of the Edinburgh, or second, edition of Burns i n gray paper boards— a terrible temptation, which was nobly resisted. Though there was once a valuable l i b r a ry here, with many books now rare and costly, yet all had disappeared. East of the fort are shelving masses of red granite, completely covered by a dark orange lichen, which gives them an added warmth and richness: and on the highest part stood a square lead sun- dial, which, at first sight, I thought had surely been set up by F r a n k l i n or Richardson, but which I was told was very modern indeed, and put up, if I am not mistaken, by M r . Ogilvie, D . L . S . To the west of the fort is the Church of England Mission, and. farther up, the Roman Catholic establishment, the headquarters of our esteemed fellow- voyager, Bishop Grouard.* In line with the fort buildings, and facing the lake, stood a row of whitewashed cottages, all giving the place, w i t h its environs, deeply indented shore and rugged spits of red granite, the • The first Roman Catholic Mission in Athabasca was formed by Bishop Farrand the year after Bishop Tache" s visit to Fort Chipewyan, about A. D. 1S49, he being then a missionary priest. Bishop Farrand established other missions on Peace River, and went as far north as Fort Resolution, on Great Slave Lake. He died in 1890, and was succeeded by our guest, Bishop Grouard, O. M. I., Eveque d'Ibora, the present occupant of the See of Athabasca and Mackenzie River. This prelate was born at Le Mans, in France, and was educated there, but finished his education in Quebec. He was ordained by Bishop Tach£, near Montreal, in 1862, and was sent at once to Chipewyan, where he learnt the difficult language of the natives in a year. He has worked at many points, and perhaps no man in all the North, with the exception of Archdeacon Macdonald, or the late Anglican Bishop Bompas, has or had as accurate a knowledge of the great Dene race, with its nume- ous subdivisions of Chipewyans, Beavers, Yellow Knives, Dog Ribs, Slaves, Nahanies, Rabbit Skins, Loucheairx, or Squint Eyes ( so named from the prevalence of strabismus amongst them), and of other tribes. All these were at one time not only at war with the Crees, but with each other, with the exception of the Slaves, who were always a tame and meek- spirited race, and were often subjected to and treated like dogs by the others. Indeed they were called by the Crees, Awughkanuk, meaning " cattle." |
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