[ERMATINGER] YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL 127 
October— 
ist.—Fine weather. Start at 3a.m. Arrive at the Chats! before 
8. Take breakfast Chief McNab? and C. T...... 3 Encamp above 
the Chaudiere. 
2nd.—Cross the Chaudiere Portage‘ and breakfast below By-town.° 
Encamp above the Long Sault.® 
3rd.—Engage a guide and run down the Sault 5 men per canoe— 
the others walking detain us two hours. Encamp at Point Claire. 
4th.—Arrive at Lachine about 8 a.m. 
9th.—Mr. Mittleberger arrives—13th day from Michipicoten. 
1 Chats falls, 33 miles above Ottawa. 
2 Archibald MeNab of McNab, the last of the chiefs of his clan; emigrated to 
Canada with a portion of his clan in 1825, and settled on the Ottawa; endeavoured 
to establish a feudal system but, after numerous disputes with his subjects, the 
Government bought his lands in 1862 for $16,000.00. 
3 Name is undecipherable but looks like ‘ Fisher’; in 1826-27, a ‘ Mr. Fisher” 
was in charge of the Two Mountains district which included the Lievre River posts and, 
possibly, the Chats. (McLean, Twenty-five years service in the Hudson’s Bay 
Territory, I. 149). Probably the Alexander Fisher who signed the deed poll of 1834 
as Chief Trader. 
4 Portage past Chaudiere falls, at Ottawa city. 
5 Ottawa city. 
5 Long Sault rapids, opposite Hawkesbury, Ont., 60 miles above Montreal. 
