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the crews singing in concert. Notwithstanding the surprise the chorus caused, we both were well received at the water side by our respective employers. Mr. McGillivray and Ilived on friend.
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1787 It being now the beginning of June, 1787, Mr. MacKenzie, fini. ing that the Athabaska canoes retarded too much, felt anxiow on account of the lateness of the season, and took his departur for the Grand Portage.
Murder of At length the Athabaska brigade madeits appearance, and the
Mr. Ross. x | guide informed us that the delay was caused by the death off
were in gr received in
brigades at
Ross, who had been shot in a scufile with Mr. Pond’s men. Thi Mr. Ross misfortune, I thought, should be communicated to tbe other Athabaska partners as soon as possible, and, having no one I could trust, [À circumstan
resolved on going myself, gave charge of my post to Versailles the interpreter, and embarked on one of the Athabaska canox
At the first encampment I had one of the canoes prepared for my voyage, and left the others in charge of the only guide we had. The following morning I embarked with five men who voluntecred and depending on my foreman as a guide. He knex little or nothing of the route, which we lost as often as it coull be lost, so that it took us one month of hard labour to arriveit our destination.
cloud. Mr.
was placed arrangemer employers..
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“I wrote I hope you p which you to be cautio
‘The Eng should send passed the à party, seizd —
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(2) The Huds Company’s peopld
() Mr. William MeGillivray became a partner at the reorganization of the Norik West Company in 1790, and soon became one of its most influential members.
He was appointed a Legislative Councellor in 1814, in recognition of the servie rendered to the country by the Company during the war. The North-West Compar; was then at the height of its power, and had considerably contributed, with its men an ships, to the taking of Michilimakinac, in July 1812. During the whole war, this well supplied stores were thrown open to the Government for the use of the India in the West.
A few years before the coalition of 1821, Mr. MeGillivray returned to the Highland of Scotland where he purchased a property, intending to enjoy in comparative quiet ness the handsome fortune he had made in Canada ; but the hardships he had ondur in the North-West had ruined his constitution and he died about 1825.
urprise the ter side by d on friend.
enzie, find.
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The cause of our appearance so unexpectedly was soon known Coalition through the place, and the Proprietors lost no time in commun Ompantes, icating it to our opponents. À meeting of all concerned imme-
diately took place, and it was soon décided to unite the interests
of both companies for their common welfare.
Previous to my arrival with the information, some of the outfits of both parties were already made up and forwarded across the Grand Portage for the interior, and the other outfits were in great progress, 80 that their contents could not well be received into the general concern before the arrival of the several brigades at their respective destinations.
Mr, Ross being no more, Mr. A. MacKenzie was named for the Athabaska department, where M. Pond, from the unfortunate circumstances of the preceding winter, had remained under a cloud. Mr. Small continued in charge of English River, and I was placed under his command, but authorized, under the new arrangement, to superintend the particular int 'ests of my CMPIOYÉ PB nastonmnhinate rase iastés
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“Rivière Maligne (1), 1 sept. 1787.
“ Dear Roderic,
“ I wrote you a letter atthe entrance of Lake Winnipeg, which Trouble
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I hope you have received. I now enclose you sundry papers Co. Lwhich you will peruse with Mr. Thomson. You will advise him
to be cautious in every respect where he is going to.
“The English (2) are badly inclined. They told methatif I should send any men to the place where La Grosse Téte had passed the winter, M. Thomason would go himself at the head of a party, seize upon the goods, cake the men prisoners, and send
(1) North of Fort Cumberland, on the route to the Churchill River.
(2) The Hudson Bav Company’s servants, to distinguish them from the North-West Company’s people who, irrespective of their nationality were ‘ The French.”?
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