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principal branches of this river. Anglicised versions of many are still 

 used. These are as follows: — 



Pembina name adopted for a southern branch. 



Avirons Paddle river. 



Des Gens Libres Freeman river at Fort Assiniboine. 



McLoud McLeod river. 



Baptiste Berland Baptiste river lately changed to Berland. 



Du Vieux Oldman river. 



Du Mulien 



Des Prairies Prairie creek. 



Des Roches Canyon below Brule lake. 



Lac Jasper Brule lake. 



Jasper house and the second lake are twenty miles higher. 



This note seems to indicate that the House at Brule lake had been 

 abandoned and one on the second lake occupied as Jasper House. 



Father de Smet stopped a short time at Jasper House, but as 

 provisions were getting scarce the household moved up river to the 

 lake of islands where fish were to be had. This is probably Fishing 

 lake of McEvoy's map or in the latest maps Talbot lake. 



From here he made a short journey up the pass and met the 

 Hudson's Bay brigade from the Columbia river under charge of Mr. 

 Francis Ermatinger. With this company were two British officers,, 

 Lieut. Ward, 14th Reg., and Lieut. Vavaseur, R.E. These seem to be 

 the first military men to make a reconnaissance of routes through the 

 mountains. Their outward journey was through a pass, in about Lat. 

 50" 30', seldom used. 



Father de Smet on his return to the camp at the fishing lakes was 

 honoured by the assembled Indians with the ceremony of naming a 

 mountain for him. "Each one discharged his musket in the direction 

 of the highest mountain, a large rock jutting out in the form of a sugar 

 loaf, and with three hurrahs gave it my name."^ 



In the fall of this same year, 1846, probably with the returning bri- 

 gade, there passed through the Athabaska pass the artist, Paul Kane, a 

 painter of Indians. After spending the season at Fort Vancouver 

 near the mouth of the Columbia, he retraced his steps through the 

 pass and reached Edmonton in the fall of 1847. The following extract 

 from his book refers to the name of one of the mountains. "Nov. 2,, 

 1846, we are now close upon the mountains and it is scarcely possible 

 to conceive the intense force with which the wind howled through a 

 gap formed by the perpendicular rock called Miette Rock, 1,500 feet 



Oregon missions, p. 190. 



