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canoemen, etc., on my geological parties, and if these Indians were 

 familiar with the country being explored, many of the names 

 in use among the local tribes were obtained from them. Where 

 such names did not conflict with similar names in use elsewhere, they were 

 generally adopted in my reports and on my maps. When no local or 

 native Indian names were obtainable, I made use of such names of 

 persons or things as seemed appropriate to me at the time. 



The names of places recorded in the following pages are those 

 that have been in use from time immemorial by the Indians who live 

 in the immediate vicinity of the places referred to. Some of these 

 names are evidently contractions or corruptions, and their original 

 meanings have been obscured or lost. In most cases, however, the 

 meanings of the names have been determined and are given. In the next 

 column the names in use on the latest Canadian maps are given, 

 after which the approximate positions of the places are designated in 

 terms of North latitude, and longitude West of Greenwich. 



These names were collected during the last few years spent by me 

 on the Geological Survey of Canada, mostly in 1896, 1897 and 1898; and 

 afterwards in 1912, when I conducted an expedition through Mani- 

 toba to York Factory on Hudson Bay, and thence eastward and south- 

 ward along the shore of the Bay, up Severn river to its source, down the 

 upper part of the Albany river, and through some of the Upper Waters 

 of the English River to Sioux Lookout on the Grand Trunk Pacific 

 Railway. 



In my Reports published by the Geological Survey of Canada, on 

 Northern Alberta and the Doohaunt, Kazan and Ferguson Rivers lists 

 of Indian names used in the countries reported on have already been 

 published. In my Reports on Manitoba and adjoining countries, also 

 published by the Geological Survey of Canada, many Indian names were 

 used, and in the maps accompanying those reports the positions of 

 most of those places were given, but no definite Lists of names were 

 published. With the abundance of work which I had to attend to while 

 travelling through Northern Canada, I had neither the opportunity nor 

 the time to become proficient in any of the Indian languages, but I 

 acquired a familiarity with some of the more common words and phrases 

 of the Cree language, since that was the language talked by most of my 

 Indian canoemen. This assisted me in obtaining the correct names of 

 the places visited and here recorded, but nevertheless these names were 

 always confirmed by an interpreter if one was available. While, there- 

 fore, these place names have not the merit of having been obtained by a 

 linguist thoroughly familiar with the Algonquian tongue, they have the 

 merit of having been obtained on the spot from Indians or half-breeds 



