[BURPEE] YORK FACTORY TO THE BLACKFEET COUNTRY 32) 
JOURNAL OF A JOURNEY PERFORMED BY ANTHONY 
HENDRY,’ TO EXPLORE THE COUNTRY INLAND, AND 
TO ENDEAVOUR TO INCREASE THE HUDSON’S BAY 
COMPANY’S TRADE, A.D. 1754-1755. 
June 26, 1754. Wednesday. Took my departure from York Fort,? 
and paddled up Hays River to Amista-Asinee * or Great Stone, distant 
from the Fort 24 miles; our course about S.W.b.W.; here we put up 
for the night. 
27. Thursday. Paddled up Hays River till we came to Apet- 
Sepee, or Fire-Steel River,‘ and paddled up to Mistick-Apethaw Sepee,® 
or Wood Partridge River, and there put up for the night. 


*The name is spelt ‘Hendey” in a copy of the Journal in the Canadian 
Archives, of which this is a transcript. Miss Agnes C. Laut says, however, 
that the Minutes of the Hudson’s Bay Company at Hudson’s Bay House all 
spell the name “ Hendry.” Probably the latter is the correct form. 
? York Factory, or Fort Nelson, may be said to date back to the year 
1671, when Governor Bayly of the Hudson’s Bay Company, with Pierre Esprit 
Radisson, first opened trade with the natives at the mouth of the Nelson. 
Presumably some sort of rude post was built at that time, or soon thereafter. 
In 1682, Radisson—now acting in the French interest—built Fort Bourbon 
near the mouth of Hayes river. Thereafter the post repeatedly changed 
hands. The accompanying plate—reduced from one in Robson’s “ Hudson’s 
Bay ’”—shows the capture of the fort by D'Iberville in 1694. Restored under 
the terms of the treaty of Utrecht, in 1782 it was again captured by the 
French, under La Perouse. For further particulars, see Kingsford’s ‘ His- 
tory of Canada,” iii, ch. 1 and 2; MRadisson’s ‘‘ Voyages,’ Prince Society, 
1885; Oldmixon’s “British Empire in America”; Robson’s ‘ Hudson’s 
Bay”; Jérémie’s Narrative, in ‘‘ Recueil des voyages du Nord,” iii; Bacque- 
ville de la Potherie’s ‘“ Histoire de l'Amérique Septentrionale.’ See also 
the very interesting Account of the Forts in the Bay in 1771, by Andrew 
Graham, quoted by Dr. George Bryce in his “ Hudson’s Bay Company,” ch. xiii. 
3A small tributary of Hayes river, flowing in on the north side, and still 
known to the Indians as the Amista-Asinee. The English name is now given 
as Stoney river or creek. The bed is full of large, round boulders; hence the 
name. Lake Mistassini represents another form of the same name. 
*Steel River, on Arrowsmith’s and other early maps. Now regarded as 
a portion of the Hayes. 
5 Shamattawa river. Mr. Owen O’Sullivan, of the Geological Survey, says 
that a branch of the Shamattawa still bears the name of Mistick-Apethaw. 
The Shamattawa rises in Island lake, about 53° 40’ N., and between 94° and 
95° W. In Mathew Cocking’s Journal of 1772-73, he mentions a river, the 
Chuckitanaw, which is evidently Hendry’s Mistick-Apethaw. ‘It empties,’ 
says Cocking, “into Steel River forty miles southwest from its entrance. 
From York Fort to the mouth of the Chuckitanaw River canoes may be 
navigated pretty easy; above this river the water becomes shoal.” 
See. bl.) 11907 21° 
