Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899

Chipewyan, it may be remarked, is not a Déné word. It is the name which was given by the Crees to that branch of the race when they first came in contact with them, owing to the...

Our route lay first up the Pelican River, the Chachákew of the Crees, and then from the "divide" down the Wahpoośkow watershed to the lake. We had six canoemen, and our journey...

On the 19th of June our little fleet landed at Willow Point. There was a rude jetty, or wharf, at this place, below the little trading village referred to, at which loaded boats...

Mr. Laird, with his staff, left Winnipeg for Edmonton by the Canadian Pacific express on the 22nd of May, two of the Commissioners having preceded him to that point. The train w...

The Pelican River--Poling and paddling--Character of the river and country--Great hay meadows--An Indian runner--The Pelican Mountains--Muskegs and rich soil--Pelican Lake the h...

We had now to descend the river, and our first night in the boats was a bad one. A small but exceedingly diligent variety of mosquito attacked us unprepared; but no ordinary net...

By the afternoon of the 12th we had finished our work at the lake, and in the evening left the scene of so much amusement, and its lively and intelligent people, not without reg...

We were now traversing perhaps the most interesting region in all the North. In the neighbourhood of McMurray there are several tar-wells, so called, and there, if a hole is scr...

It is unnecessary to inform the average reader that the Lesser Slave River connects the Lesser Slave Lake with the Athabasca; any atlas will satisfy him upon that point. But its...

The adjustment with the half-breeds depended, of course, upon a successful treaty with the Indians, and, this having been concluded, the latter at once, upon receipt of their pa...

It was expected that the sergeant of the Mounted Police stationed at the Lake would have set out by boat on the 3rd for Athabasca Landing, taking with him the witnesses in the W...

On the trail to Peace River--The South Heart River--Good farming lands--The Little Prairie--Peace River Crossing--The vast banks of the Peace a country in themselves--Wild fruit...

Fort Chipewyan and Athabasca Lake--Colin Fraser's trading-post--The Barren Ground reindeer--Feathered land game--The Indians of Fond du Lac--Mineral resources--First companies f...

Arrival of Treaty and Half-breed Commissions at Edmonton--Departure for Athabasca Landing--Tawutináow peat beds, etc.--Arrival at the Landing--The gas well there--Boats and trac...

The descent of the Peace River--Wolverine Point--A good farming country--Paddle River and Keg of Rum River prairies--Heavy spruce forests here--Vermilion settlement--The Lawrenc...

Lesser Slave River--Its proper name--Migration of the great Algic race--Bishop Grouard's service in the wilderness--Returning Klondikers--The rapids; poling--Accident to Peokus-...

The Treaty point at last--Our camp at Lesser Slave Lake--The Treaty ground and assembly--"Civilized" Indians--Keenooshayo and Moostoos--The Treaty proceedings--The Treaty Commis...

Indian lunatics: The Weeghteko--Treatment of lunatics in old Upper Canada--Lesser Slave Lake fisheries--Stock-raising at the lake--Prairies of the region--The region once a buff...

The tar-banks--Characteristic features of the river--The rapids of the Athabasca--The cut-banks--A freshet--A fine camp--The "Indian lop-stick"--The natural gas springs--Grand R...

The half-breeds collect at Lesser Slave Lake--They decide upon cash, scrip or nothing--Honesty of the half-breeds and Indians--Ease of parturition amongst their women--Cree fami...