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4th.—Fine weather. Started at 4 a.m. Snow and ice very thick 
along the banks of the River. Met an Indian with a note and horse 
from Mr. A. McDonald,’ Okinagan. Set off to the Fort? Boats arrive 
at 5 p.m., find Messrs. McGillivray, McDonald and Ermatinger here. 
5th.—Fine Weather. Remain at this place all day collecting the 
accts. of the District and settling other matters relative to men. 
6th.—Fine weather. Start with the Boats about noon. Our 
number of men are now increased to 20—2 from N. Caledonia and 1 
from this place. Passengers J. MeGillivray,® Esq., Messrs. A. McDonald 
and E. E.‘ Left at Okanagan for the voyage down of Mr. Connolly*® 
and Mr. Dears® voyage to N. Caledonia. 
1 bag flour 
1 keg sugar 
# keg pork—2 Hams 
2 lb Hyson and 2 Twankey 
2 gallons Butter 
Encamp at 7 p.m. 
Monday, 7th.—Fine weather. Start at 4 past 4 a.m. Passed the 
Gros Rocher at 1 p.m. Here Messrs. McGillivray and McDonald em- 
bark, having ridden across from Okanagan. Encamp at 7 p.m. 
Sth.—Fine weather. Embark at 5a.m. Patches snow on the hills. 
Encamp at 4 past 7 p.m. a few (2 or 3) miles above Riviere a cens 
Poiles.? 

1 Arch. McDonald. See page 73. 
2 Fort Okanagan, at the point where the Okanagan enters the Columbia; the 
junction with the route to New Caledonia via Kamloops. 
3 Joseph McGillivray; a son of Hon. William McGillivray; partner of the North 
West Co., 1813; wintered 1813-16 at Fort Okanagan; left fort George April 1817, 
overland to Fort William; was in H. B. Co., Columbia Dept., after 1821. Evidently 
transferred to New Caledonia in Spring, 1828. 
*E. Ermatinger. 
5 William Connolly; entered N. W. Co. about 1800-02 and went to Athabaska; 
clerk at Rat River House, 1804; at Cranberry Lake House, Sept. 1805, Indian Lake, 
1804-05; bourgeois of Cumberland House in Sept. 1819; Chief Trader, 1821; Chief 
Factor, 1825; Superintendent, New Caledonia, 1824-30; retired and settled at St. 
Eustache, Que., 1831; married a white woman while his Indian wife was living; 
after his death, a law suit between his two wives was carried to the Imperial Privy 
Council; a cause célèbre; the Privy Council decided that his estate was to be divided 
equally between his two wives. 
5 Thomas Dears, a clerk, was in charge of fort Connolly, New Caledonia, in 
1831. Later he settled in St. Thomas, U.C. None of his family survives. See 
Morice, Northern Interior of British Columbia. 
7Sans Poil river; fallsin from the north, 8 miles above the county line 
between Ferry and Okanagan cos., Wash. Named after a tribe of Indians which, 
probably, so named by David Thompson because they had no furs to trade. Ross 
Cox calls it ‘Sinapoil’ river. 
