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In the summer of 1906, however, Mr. Owen O’Sullivan of the Survey 
met at Oxford House the Rev. Mr. Banel, a missionary, who had just 
come by canoe from his headquarters on Cross lake to Oxford, and 
had discovered about midway an unmapped lake, so large that he had 
been lost upon it for three days. The lake was described as being about 
a day’s journey from Oxford lake. There does not seem to be any rea- 
sonable doubt that the lake discovered by Father Banel is the same tra- 
versed by Hendry in 1754, and named by him Christianaux. 
In tracing Hendry’s route throughout all this early part of his 
journey much help is derived from a comparison of his journal with 
that of another officer of the Hudson’s Bay Company, Mathew Cocking, 
who journeyed inland from York Factory in 1772. Cocking’s Deer lake 
is, beyond reasonable question, Hendry’s Attick-Sagohan—present Knee 
lake; and the latter’s Christianaux lake becomes Pimochickomow in 
Cocking’s narrative. Cocking notes the fact that there are “ many 
islands in the lake,” and gives his distance through the lake as sixty- 
five miles, from which it would appear that Hendry underestimated 
rather than exaggerated the length of the lake. 
Leaving Christianaux lake, Hendry apparently took the same river 
to Cross lake followed by Father Banel. For some reason he makes no 
special mention of Cross lake, but says that he “ took his departure from 
Shad fall” and paddled up a river. This river is given in Cock'ng's 
journal as the Minahage or Pine river—the Minago of our modern 
maps. Ascending this stream he came to a large lake, which he calls 
Othenume, and Cocking, Oteatowan Sockoegan; evidently Moose lake. 
Both Hendry’s and Cocking’s descriptions agree with recent accounts 
of Moose lake. Paddling up a river emptying into Moose lake, Hendry 
finally reached the Saskatchewan, or Keiskatchewan as he spells it, and 
the following day came to a French house, Fort “ Basquea,” at the 
mouth of the Pasquia river. 
This place, now known as The Pas, was a notable spot throughout 
the entire period of the fur-trade, from the days of La Vérendrye down. 
The elder La Vérendrye, so far as his journals and letters show, was 
never on the Saskatchewan, but one of his sons built Fort Bourbon on 
the shores of Cedar lake, about 1748, and ascended the river as far 35 
the forks, somewhere below which he built Fort Poskoyac. After the 
death of the elder La Vérendrye, in 1749, Jacques Legardeur de Saint- 
Pierre was sent out to continue his explorations in the far west. A 
party of his men are said to have ascended one of the branches of the 
Saskatchewan to the foot of the Rocky Mountains, in 1751, and built 
there Fort La Jonquiére. This will be referred to again. Two years 
later Saint-Luc de La Corne, who had been sent to replace Saint-Pierre, 
