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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Important events of the year 1857— The Nor- Wester newspaper— The Duke of Newcastle and the Hudson's Bay Co.' s Charter— The " Anglo- International Financial Association "— The New Hudson's Bay Company— Offers of American capitalists to purchase the Company's interests— Biil providing for purchase • * 1 • L - TT„; f^ St- ati's Congress— E R R A T A . Page 66, line 14, Treaty of " 1889 - should be " 1899 " Page 89, first line, « Trappers and traders " should be " trippers and traders." HH Page 117, line 10, " Fort Resolution" should be " Fort Enterprise." X / e p a i t / m t - . etc.— Arrival at the Landing— The gas well there— Boats ana trackers— Mr. d'Eschamb iu. lt and Pierre Cyr— Non- arrival of trackers— Police contingent volunteers to track a boat to Lesser Slave Lake— Nature of country, burnt forests, muskegs, etc.— Tracking ; its difficulties— The old Indian tracker Peokus— Forest and river scenery— Placer mining— Absence of life along the river— Fertile soil . . . . . CHAPTER II. L E S S E R S L A V E R I V E R A N D L E S S E R S L A V E L A K E . Lesser Slave River— Its proper name— Migration of the great AJgic race— Bishop Grouard's service in the wilderness— Returning Klondikers — The rapids; poling— Accident to Peokus— Celebration of Pere Lacombe's fiftieth year of missionary labors— Arrival of half- breed trackers from Lesser
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OCR | CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Important events of the year 1857— The Nor- Wester newspaper— The Duke of Newcastle and the Hudson's Bay Co.' s Charter— The " Anglo- International Financial Association "— The New Hudson's Bay Company— Offers of American capitalists to purchase the Company's interests— Biil providing for purchase • * 1 • L - TT„; f^ St- ati's Congress— E R R A T A . Page 66, line 14, Treaty of " 1889 - should be " 1899 " Page 89, first line, « Trappers and traders " should be " trippers and traders." HH Page 117, line 10, " Fort Resolution" should be " Fort Enterprise." X / e p a i t / m t - . etc.— Arrival at the Landing— The gas well there— Boats ana trackers— Mr. d'Eschamb iu. lt and Pierre Cyr— Non- arrival of trackers— Police contingent volunteers to track a boat to Lesser Slave Lake— Nature of country, burnt forests, muskegs, etc.— Tracking ; its difficulties— The old Indian tracker Peokus— Forest and river scenery— Placer mining— Absence of life along the river— Fertile soil . . . . . CHAPTER II. L E S S E R S L A V E R I V E R A N D L E S S E R S L A V E L A K E . Lesser Slave River— Its proper name— Migration of the great AJgic race— Bishop Grouard's service in the wilderness— Returning Klondikers — The rapids; poling— Accident to Peokus— Celebration of Pere Lacombe's fiftieth year of missionary labors— Arrival of half- breed trackers from Lesser |
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