The Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company Including that of the French Traders of North-Western Canada and of the North-West, XY, and Astor Fur Companies

CHAPTER XXXIX.

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ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE.

Extension of trade in New Caledonia--The Western Department--Fort Vancouver built--Governor's residence and Bachelors' Hall--Fort Colville--James Douglas, a man of note--A dignified official--An Indian rising--A brave woman--The fertile Columbia Valley--Finlayson, a man of action--Russian fur traders--Treaty of Alaska--Lease of Alaska to the Hudson's Bay Company--Fort Langley--The great farm--Black at Kamloops--Fur trader _v._ botanist--"No soul above a beaver's skin"--A tragic death--Chief Nicola's eloquence--A murderer's fate 399