Fascination of an unknown land--Adventure, science, or gain--Lieutenant Lefroy's magnetic survey--Hudson's Bay Company assists--Winters at Fort Chipewyan--First scientific visit to Peace River--Notes lost--Not "gratuitous canoe conveyance"--Captain Palliser and Lieutenant Hector--Journey through Rupert's Land--Rocky Mountain passes--On to the coast--A successful expedition--Hind and Dawson--To spy out the land for Canada--The fertile belt--Hind's description good--Milton and Cheadle--Winter on the Saskatchewan--Reach Pacific Ocean in a pitiable condition--Captain Butler--The horse Blackie and dog "Cerf Vola"--Fleming and Grant--"Ocean to ocean"--"Land fitted for a healthy and hardy race"--Waggon road and railway 337
Chiefly Scottish and French settlers--Many hardships--Grasshoppers--Yellow Head--"Gouverneur Sauterelle"--Swiss settlers--Remarkable parchment--Captain Bulger, a military governor--Indian troubles--Donald McKenzie, a fur trader governor--Many projects fail--The flood--Plenty follows--Social condition--Lower Fort built--Upper Fort Garry--Council of Assiniboia--The settlement organized--Duncan Finlayson governor--English farmers--Governor Christie--Serious epidemic--A regiment of regulars--The unfortunate major--The people restless 348
THE PRAIRIES: SLEDGE, KEEL, WHEEL, CAYUSE, CHASE.
A picturesque life--The prairie hunters and traders--Gaily-caparisoned dog trains--The great winter packets--Joy in the lonely forts--The summer trade--The York boat brigade--Expert voyageurs--The famous Red River cart--Shagganappe ponies--The screeching train--Tripping--The western cayuse--The great buffalo hunt--Warden of the plains--Pemmican and fat--The return in triumph 360
LIFE ON THE SHORES OF HUDSON BAY AND LABRADOR.
The bleak shores unprogressive--Now as at the beginning--York Factory--Description of Ballantyne--The weather--Summer comes with a rush--Picking up subsistence--The Indian trade--Inhospitable Labrador--Establishment of Ungava Bay--McLean at Fort Chimo--Herds of cariboo--Eskimo rafts--"Shadowy Tartarus"--The king's domains--Mingan--Mackenzie--The gulf settlements--The Moravians--Their four missions--Rigolette, the chief trading post--A school for developing character--Chief Factor Donald A. Smith--Journeys along the coast--A barren shore 376