104 BRYCH’S OUTLINES OF JOURNEYS IN RUPERTS LAND. 
respect. Principal Grant, as secretary of the expedition, well describes its progress. It 
differed in route from that of Milton and Cheadle, only in that it was conducted from 
“ocean to ocean” through Canadian Territory. 
It may be said really to have begun at the mouth of the Kaministiquia, on Lake 
Superior. It followed the old canoe route by Rainy Lake and River, but left Lake of the 
Woods, not by Winnipeg River, but at the North-West angle, and thence proceeded to 
Fort Garry by the Dawson Road. The writer met the party at Fort Garry early in 
August, 1872. 
The route from Fort Garry westward was that of Milton and Cheadle. On their 
returns journey the party left Esquimalt, in Vancouver Island, Oct. 14, to travel by way 
of the Pacific Coast steamer and Union Pacific Railway. This journey may be looked upon 
as the precursor of our Canadian Pacific Railway, though a more southerly route, and 
another pass has been followed by that great national line. 
F. 
Results Achieved. 
1. La Verandrye and his immediate successors discovered and explored all the great 
rivers of the fertile portion of the Canadian Northwest. 
2. La France first led the way from Lake Superior to Hudson Bay. 
3. Hearne discovered the Coppermine River, the Arctic Sea, and was the Hudson’s 
Bay Company’s pathfinder to the interior. 
4. Mackenzie discovered Mackenzie River, the Arctic Sea, and first crossed the Rocky 
Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, north of Mexico. 
5. Pike discovered the sources of the Mississippi. Lewis and Clark gave ground for 
claims of country on Columbia River by the United States, explored the Missouri, and 
discovered rivers on the Pacific slope. Long established the boundary of 49° N., and made 
a remarkably rapid journey. 
6. Franklin, Richardson, Back, Simpson, Dease and Rae may be said to have explored, 
outlined and named the whole coast of the Arctic ocean from Point Barron to Hudson Bay. 
Their names are all attached to rivers, straits or capes discovered by them. Their voyages 
are marvels of endurance and skill. Richardson and Rae were celebrated for their search 
for Franklin. 
7. Milton and Cheadle accomplished their voyage with great tact, and their delightful 
book has been the thesawrus from which many of their successors have drawn. 
8. Mr. Sandford Fleming’s journey was the preliminary exploration for the Canadian 
Pacific Railway. 
