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112 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN
was only established at Sturgeon R i v e r , Cumberland Lake,
i n 1774, by tbe adventurous, i f not over- valiant, Samuel
Hearne. The rivalries of these two companies nearly
r u i n e d both, u n t i l they got r i d of them by u n i t i n g i n 1821,
when the Nor'- Westers became as vigorous defenders of
K i u g Charles's Charter as they had before been its defiers
and defamers.
F o r t Chipewyan was established, Mackenzie says, by M r .
Pond, i n 1788, the year after his owh a r r i v a l at the Athabasca,
where, by the way, i n the f a l l of 1787, he describes
M r . Pond's garden at his post on that river as being " as
fine a kitchen garden as he ever saw i n C a n a d a . " Fort
Chipewyan, however, though not established by Mackenzie,
was his headquarters for eight years. From here he set out
i n June, 17S9, on his canoe voyage to the A r c t i c Ocean,
and from here i n October, 1792, he started on his voyage
up the Peace R i v e r on his way to the Pacific coast, which
he reached the following year.
I n his history he states: " When the white traders first
ventured into this country both tribes were numerous, but
smallpox destroyed them." And, speaking of the region
at large, he, perhaps, throws an incidental side- light upon
the Blackfoot question. " W h o the original people were,"
he says, " that were driven f r om it when conquered by the
K i n i s t e n e a u x ( the Crees) is not now known, as not a single
vestige remains of them. The latter and the Chipewyans
are the only people that have been known here, and it is
evident that the last mentioned consider themselves as
strangers, and seldom remain longer than three or four
years without v i s i t i n g their friends and relatives i n the
B a r r e n Grounds, which they term their native country."*
* It is a reasonable conjecture that these " original people," driven
from Athabasca in remote days, were the Blaekfeet Indians and
their kindred, who possibly had their base at that time, as In
subsequent days, at the forks and on both branches of the Saskatchewan.
The tradition was authentic in Dr. ( afterwards Sir John)
Richardson's time. Writing on the Saskatchewan eighty- eight years
ago he places the Eascabs, " called by the Crees the Assinipoytuk, or
Stone Indians, west of the Crees. between them and the Blaekfeet."
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| OCR | 112 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN was only established at Sturgeon R i v e r , Cumberland Lake, i n 1774, by tbe adventurous, i f not over- valiant, Samuel Hearne. The rivalries of these two companies nearly r u i n e d both, u n t i l they got r i d of them by u n i t i n g i n 1821, when the Nor'- Westers became as vigorous defenders of K i u g Charles's Charter as they had before been its defiers and defamers. F o r t Chipewyan was established, Mackenzie says, by M r . Pond, i n 1788, the year after his owh a r r i v a l at the Athabasca, where, by the way, i n the f a l l of 1787, he describes M r . Pond's garden at his post on that river as being " as fine a kitchen garden as he ever saw i n C a n a d a . " Fort Chipewyan, however, though not established by Mackenzie, was his headquarters for eight years. From here he set out i n June, 17S9, on his canoe voyage to the A r c t i c Ocean, and from here i n October, 1792, he started on his voyage up the Peace R i v e r on his way to the Pacific coast, which he reached the following year. I n his history he states: " When the white traders first ventured into this country both tribes were numerous, but smallpox destroyed them." And, speaking of the region at large, he, perhaps, throws an incidental side- light upon the Blackfoot question. " W h o the original people were," he says, " that were driven f r om it when conquered by the K i n i s t e n e a u x ( the Crees) is not now known, as not a single vestige remains of them. The latter and the Chipewyans are the only people that have been known here, and it is evident that the last mentioned consider themselves as strangers, and seldom remain longer than three or four years without v i s i t i n g their friends and relatives i n the B a r r e n Grounds, which they term their native country."* * It is a reasonable conjecture that these " original people," driven from Athabasca in remote days, were the Blaekfeet Indians and their kindred, who possibly had their base at that time, as In subsequent days, at the forks and on both branches of the Saskatchewan. The tradition was authentic in Dr. ( afterwards Sir John) Richardson's time. Writing on the Saskatchewan eighty- eight years ago he places the Eascabs, " called by the Crees the Assinipoytuk, or Stone Indians, west of the Crees. between them and the Blaekfeet." |
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