[ERMATINGER] YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL 1 
9th.—Day very warm. Started at 4 a.m. Pass the Spokane Forks! 
at 3 p.m. Encamp a few miles above at + past 6. 
10th.—Fair weather. Embark at 4a.m. Afternoon a light breeze 
favours us. Encamp about 3 miles above the Grand Rapid.? 
11th.—Fine weather. Start at 4 a.m. Make a Portage at the 
Grand Rapids. Arrive at the Kettle Falls’ at 11 o’clock. Find Messrs. 
Work‘ and Kittson® at Fort Colville. Mr. Deasef not yet arrived. 
20th.—This evening the business at this place being done the 
Express Boats take their departure manned by 14 men and having the 
following passengers—J. W. Dease and J. MeGillivray, Esq:, Messrs. A. 
McDonald and Ermatinger, J. Rundal and 2 boys. Encamp at the 
Point above the Fort. 
Monday, 21st.—Fine weather—morning sharp. Start at 6 a.m. 
Stiff poling all day. Encamp at 7 p.m. above Riviere a mouton blanc.’ 
Passed the Little Dalles by 4 past 3. p.m. 
22nd.—Fine warm weather. Started at 4 past 4 a.m. Continue 
poling all [day] and encamp below McGillivray’s River at 4 past 6. 
Both Boats are gummed having become very leaky. 
23rd.—Fine weather. Embark at 4 past 4 o’clock. Enter the 1st 
Lake between 7 and 8 a.m. Continued paddling all day and encamp 
at 7 p.m. near the end of the Lake. Trade a pair of snow shoes and a 
small piece dried meat from an Indian. 

1 Mouth of Spokane river. 
? Grand rapids are 7 miles below Kettle falls. 
3 Fort Colville was situated at, or near, the mouth of Colville river and some 300 
yards back from the Columbia. The village of Meyers Falls now occupies the site. 
The falls near by are divided into upper and lower falls by an island. The action of 
the water eddying and revolving stones at the lower falls has created pot holes— 
hence the name Kettle falls. See p. 75. 
4 John Work: a Chief Factor in 1846; a brother of the late Senator Wark; 
entered the H. B. Co.’s service in 1814, serving in the east till 1822 when trans- 
ferred to the Columbia; from 1835-49 he was stationed at fort Simpson; with P. 8. 
Ogden and James (afterwards Sir James) Douglas, formed the Board of Manage- 
ment of the Columbia Department in 1850; a member of the first Government of 
Vancouver Island, from 1857 till his death in 1861. 
‘William Kittson was an adopted son of George Kittson, Sorel, Que,; served in 
the war of 1812-14; Alex. Ross says that in 1819, he placed a party of twenty-six 
men of the North West Co. “under the charge of a Mr. Kittson, an apprentice-clerk 
from Canada; a novice in the country, but a smart fellow’? (The Fur Hunters of 
the Far West, I. 207); in 1830, he was Chief Clerk at fort Vancouver; died about 
1843, probably in Victoria, B.C. 
§ James Warren Dease; see p. 75. 
7 Ross Cox, writing in 1817, says: “so called from some mountain sheep having 
been killed near the spot by our hunters some years before.” Now known as Kettle 
river from Kettle falls near its mouth. 
