Secrion IL., 1900. [ 73 ] Trans. KR. S. C. 
V.—Diary of Nicholas Garry, Deputy-Governor of the Hudson’s Bay 
Company from 1822-1835. A detailed narrative of his travels 
in the Northwest Territories of British North America in 1821. 
With a portrait of Mr. Garry and other illustrations. 
Communicated to the Society through Sir John Bourinot, and read May 29, 1900. 
PREFATORY. 
This valuable manuscript has been communicated to the Royal 
Society by the Reverend Canon Nicholas T. Garry, of “ The Rectory,” 
Taplow, England, the son of the founder of a well-known western fort, 
who was a deputy-governor and director of the Hudson’s Bay Com- 
pany for a number of years. The document has been copied and anno- 
tated with a great deal of care by Mr. Francis N. A. Garry, the grandson, 
as the following note from him shows : 
“The Diary of my grandfather, Nicholas Garry, who was from 1822 
to 1835 Deputy-Governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, is contained in 
a locked quarto volume bound in brown leather. The paper has the 
watermark of “I. Whatman, 1820.” 
“Written as the Diary is on both sides of the page and in the 
hurry and discomfort of camp life there has been much difficulty in 
deciphering it. Notes and scraps of information, accounts, routes, etc., 
are scattered all through the Journal proper. These, or such of them 
as appear to me to be of any value, I have thrown together in the 
Appendix under the heads of Union of the Companies of the N. W. and 
Hudson Bay, Routes, Lord Selkirk’s Colony on the Red River, Bible 
Society, Voyageurs’ Songs, York Fort, Indians, Trade and Prices, 
Treaty of Ghent, and miscellaneous notes. Where possible I have 
referred to them in the Diary, but many of them are practically inde- 
pendent and have an interest of their own.” 
“The deciphering of the Diary, the arrangement of the scattered 
jottings and the chronological sequence have occupied far more time 
than was anticipated. I should have preferred to have a few months 
more for the preparation of the notes, but the work has been promised 
to the Royal Society. It is therefore forwarded in its present condition 
in the hope that it may prove to be, in its own way, of some interest, as 
containing the thoughts and experiences of one who contributed not a 
