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APPENDIX 47.9
region have to be solved by steam sea- going or lighter river
craft.
20th. The chief present commercial product of the country
is its furs, which, as the region in question is the last great
fur preserve of the world, are of very great present and prospective
value, all the finer furs of commerce being there found,
and the sales in London yearly amounting to several millions
of dollars.
21st. The Indian population is sparse, and the Indians,
never having lived in large communities, are peaceable, and
their general character and habits, as given by witnesses, justify
a hope that the development of the country, as in the case of
the Indians of British Columbia, may be aided by them without
great danger of their demoralization and with a reasonable hope
that, as in the case of the Indians mentioned, their condition
may be improved.
Tour Committee, desiring to refer briefly to the evidence
upon which they have based these conclusions, may explain
that very early in their investigations they became convinced
that very little more was known of the northern and eastern
portion of the area committed to them for investigation than
was known of the interior of Africa or Australia. Arctic
explorers had indeed traversed its coast line and descended two
of the rivers which, east of the Mackenzie, flow into the Arctic
Sea, but the object sought by them was one which had no relation
to that of the present inquiry and it is only incidently that
their records are now valuable. The knowledge of missionaries
and officers of the Hudson's Bay Company is chiefly confined
to the watercourses and the great lakes, while scientific exploration
has not as yet extended north of Great Slave Lake.
In referring again to the navigation of this region all the
evidence has agreed as to the great extent of unbroken navigation,
and this fact has been of great use to the Hudson's Bay
Company, who have always used the waterways, even when
circuitous and difficult, rather than resort to land carriage, and
their inland posts to as far north as the Arctic circle are now
supplied from their central depot at Port Garry, with only 114
miles of land carriage, four of this being by tramway at the
Grand Bapids of the Saskatchewan, ninety miles of waggon
transport from Edmonton to Athabasca Landing, thence by
steamer and flatboat to Eort Smith on the Great Slave River,
where twenty miles of waggon road connects the shallow with
deep water navigation, and the steamer Wrigley distributes
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| OCR | APPENDIX 47.9 region have to be solved by steam sea- going or lighter river craft. 20th. The chief present commercial product of the country is its furs, which, as the region in question is the last great fur preserve of the world, are of very great present and prospective value, all the finer furs of commerce being there found, and the sales in London yearly amounting to several millions of dollars. 21st. The Indian population is sparse, and the Indians, never having lived in large communities, are peaceable, and their general character and habits, as given by witnesses, justify a hope that the development of the country, as in the case of the Indians of British Columbia, may be aided by them without great danger of their demoralization and with a reasonable hope that, as in the case of the Indians mentioned, their condition may be improved. Tour Committee, desiring to refer briefly to the evidence upon which they have based these conclusions, may explain that very early in their investigations they became convinced that very little more was known of the northern and eastern portion of the area committed to them for investigation than was known of the interior of Africa or Australia. Arctic explorers had indeed traversed its coast line and descended two of the rivers which, east of the Mackenzie, flow into the Arctic Sea, but the object sought by them was one which had no relation to that of the present inquiry and it is only incidently that their records are now valuable. The knowledge of missionaries and officers of the Hudson's Bay Company is chiefly confined to the watercourses and the great lakes, while scientific exploration has not as yet extended north of Great Slave Lake. In referring again to the navigation of this region all the evidence has agreed as to the great extent of unbroken navigation, and this fact has been of great use to the Hudson's Bay Company, who have always used the waterways, even when circuitous and difficult, rather than resort to land carriage, and their inland posts to as far north as the Arctic circle are now supplied from their central depot at Port Garry, with only 114 miles of land carriage, four of this being by tramway at the Grand Bapids of the Saskatchewan, ninety miles of waggon transport from Edmonton to Athabasca Landing, thence by steamer and flatboat to Eort Smith on the Great Slave River, where twenty miles of waggon road connects the shallow with deep water navigation, and the steamer Wrigley distributes |
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