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M A M M A L S O F X O R T 1 I E U X C A X A D A 271
ultimate completion of the natural history of coutineutal
A re tie America. As to certain brief references herein to the
great fur traders of the North- West and Hudson's Bay Company
of former days, as well as to some of the Arctic explorers,
especially to those who have been engaged in the
F r a n k l i n search, i n which the writer has always felt a deep
and abiding interest, he believes that these disgressions
w i l l be condoned by his readers, not only by the older for
reminding them of the almost forgotten past, but by the
younger for calling their attention to the noble work accomplished
by those who have gone before; and also for the
reason that the successful collector and naturalist must
necessarily be more or less imbued with an ambitious, enterprising
and persevering spirit, similar to that which, without
doubt, actuated those men in their respectively able and
heroic labours for science, crown, and country.
For items of new or corroborative information \ ised in
the preparation of these X'otes, the undersigned feels much
indebted and obliged to Chief Traders Henry J . Moberly,
Pierre Deschambeault, W i l l i am , J. McLean: to Assistant
Commissioner Alexander Milne. M . D . ; to Chief Factor
Archibald McDonald : and to Messrs. C o l i n Thomson, George
1 lesehambeault. Murdo MacLeod, Henry Maclvay, Joseph
Hourston, and Angus McLean, of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Should this brief and far from perfect record of past
achievements by those mentioned therein have the effect of
somewhat stimulating the innate ardour of some of the
younger men of the Company's service, and others, to make
renewed and more systematic efforts than their predecessors
i n the already referred to and much desired direction of
obtaining and contributing material toward the completion of
the natural history of the great Dominion of Canada, he
w i l l consider himself well repaid for the time, labour, and
attention which he has here and formerly given to the interesting
and important subject in question.
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| OCR | M A M M A L S O F X O R T 1 I E U X C A X A D A 271 ultimate completion of the natural history of coutineutal A re tie America. As to certain brief references herein to the great fur traders of the North- West and Hudson's Bay Company of former days, as well as to some of the Arctic explorers, especially to those who have been engaged in the F r a n k l i n search, i n which the writer has always felt a deep and abiding interest, he believes that these disgressions w i l l be condoned by his readers, not only by the older for reminding them of the almost forgotten past, but by the younger for calling their attention to the noble work accomplished by those who have gone before; and also for the reason that the successful collector and naturalist must necessarily be more or less imbued with an ambitious, enterprising and persevering spirit, similar to that which, without doubt, actuated those men in their respectively able and heroic labours for science, crown, and country. For items of new or corroborative information \ ised in the preparation of these X'otes, the undersigned feels much indebted and obliged to Chief Traders Henry J . Moberly, Pierre Deschambeault, W i l l i am , J. McLean: to Assistant Commissioner Alexander Milne. M . D . ; to Chief Factor Archibald McDonald : and to Messrs. C o l i n Thomson, George 1 lesehambeault. Murdo MacLeod, Henry Maclvay, Joseph Hourston, and Angus McLean, of the Hudson's Bay Company. Should this brief and far from perfect record of past achievements by those mentioned therein have the effect of somewhat stimulating the innate ardour of some of the younger men of the Company's service, and others, to make renewed and more systematic efforts than their predecessors i n the already referred to and much desired direction of obtaining and contributing material toward the completion of the natural history of the great Dominion of Canada, he w i l l consider himself well repaid for the time, labour, and attention which he has here and formerly given to the interesting and important subject in question. 18 |
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