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House, still smaller and of less importance than the first, so called in 

 honour of the first adventurer who established it, but now in charge 

 of a man by the name of Klyne a jolly old fellow with a large family. "i 



In 1826 the pass was visited by the botanist, Thos. Drummond, 

 who was Assistant Naturalist to the 2nd Franklin Expedition. He 

 met the brigade in the pass and also spent several months in the 

 mountains expecting to make a trip through with the brigade in the 

 fall on their return, but was recalled eastward. 



The journal of John McLeod, extracts of which are published 

 in Peace River Canoe Voyage, by Sir George Simpson, shows that Sir 

 James Douglas accompanied the Brigade of 1826 as far as Fort 

 Colville.- 



The year 1826 can almost certainly be given as the date of the 

 discovery of the Yellowhead pass. The Brigade or Express leaving 

 Fort Vancouver March 20th, 1827, was met ten days up the Columbia 

 by Archd. McDonald from New Caledonia with the news that their 

 men were going out by the new route. 



The York Factory express for 1827 under charge of Edward 

 Ermatinger carried several passengers for the northern country. 

 These left the express at Fort Col ville, and Ermatinger with seven 

 men proceeded with D. Douglas as passenger. This passenger came 

 out under the patronage of the London Horticultural Society and was 

 a guest of the Hudson's Bay Company. The published journal of 

 Ermatinger^ details their heavy march across the pass. Douglas^ 

 on this journey named the mountains on either side of the pass, 

 Mount Brown after R. Brown,'* "the illustrious botanist," and Mount 

 Hooker. "This I named Mount Hooker in honour of my early patron, 

 the professor of botany in the University of Glasgow\" 



A portion of Douglas' journal referring to this passage of the 

 mountains has been reproduced in the Proc. Royal Soc. Can., 1912, 

 Part H, p. 128 et seq. It is of interest to know that on reaching 

 Norway House he transferred to Franklin's party^ and accompanied 

 them eastward to the Red River settlement. 



Both Ermatinger and Douglas record overtaking Mr. Geo. 

 McDougall who headed the first party from New Caledonia crossing 

 the mountains by the Yellowhead pass. Jacques Cardinal i'; men- 

 tioned by Douglas as being sent up the pass with horses to help 

 Ermatinger's party across the portage, that is, to Henry House, 



' Fur Traders of the Far West, Alex. Ross, Vol. II, pp. 203-204. 



2 Peace River, pp. 94-95. 



3 Proceedings Royal Soc. Can., 1912, Part II, pp. 7S-81. 



* Companion to Botanical magazine, Vol. XI, pp. 132-7. 



* Franklin's Second Expedition, June, 1827. 



