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avoided giving jealousy, and gained the affections of an ignorant, 
credulous, and brave people whose ruling passions are independence, 
gratitude, revenge, with an unconquerable love of strong drink which 
must prove destructive to them and the fur-trade if permitted to be sent 
among them; thus managing them by address where force could not 
avail, they reconciled them to their troops and by degrees strengthened 
their posts at Niagara, Detroit, and Michilimackinac.” 
Ninety canoes were annually permitted to go to the southern posts. 
These were Niagara, Toronto, Frontenac, La Presentation, Detroit, Ouias, 
Miamis, Michilimackinac, La Baye, St. Joseph, Illinois, and their several 
dependencies. Twenty-eight canoes were despatched to the northern 
posts which were Temiscamingue, Chagouamigon, Nipigon, Gamanis- 
tigouia, Michipicoton, Mer du Ouest, Riviere des Kikipoux, Lake 
Huron, and Belle Riviere. 
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The average value of each canoe was estimated at 7000 /zvves. Toronto 
and Frontenac were called the King’s Posts.* The trade there was con- 
ducted for the benefit of the Crown and the furs so obtained were sold by 
public auction in Montreal. Toronto in particular was founded with the 
express object of drawing trade away from the English post of Choueguen 
or Oswego. About two-thirds of the entire Indian trade, it will be 
*In addition to those posts Kalm’s map indicates the out-stations of Gandalskiagon apparently 
on the present site of Whitby, and Redcharle between Niagara and the mouth of the Genesee. 
