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proceeded to divide his diocese into four great 

 divisions, viz., (1) the Tukudh Mission, under 

 McDonald; (2) the Mackenzie River Mission, 

 under Reeve; (3) the Great Slave Lake Mission, 

 under schoolmasters; (4) the Athabasca Mission, 

 comprising the southern districts and the Peace 

 River, to which latter sphere he sent Garrioch. 

 He himself travelled during the summer, in the 

 winter he settled at one or other of the posts, 

 generally choosing one where there was no other 

 mission agent. 



&quot;Gradually and steadily the work advanced; N ine 

 and the Bishop could report that he had nine station8 &quot; 

 stations, viz., Fort Chipewyan on Athabasca 

 Lake; Vermillion and Dunvegan, on Peace River; 

 Forts Rae and Resolution, on Great Slave Lake; 

 Forts Simpson and Norman, on Mackenzie River; 

 Fort MacPherson, on Peel River; and Rampart 

 House on Porcupine River, in the Yukon Basin.&quot; 

 Five years later he &quot;estimated the whole popula 

 tion of the diocese at 10,000, of whom one half 

 were more or less under Romanist influence, while 

 of the other half the Church of England had won 

 3,000, and 2,000 were still unreached.&quot; 



The immense area of the diocese was sub- Athabasca, 

 divided, later, by the separation of the Dioceses 1 

 of Athabasca and of Selkirk, now Yukon. In each Yukon, issi 

 case Bompas reserved for himself the more 

 northerly and isolated region; the Rev. R. Young, 

 being consecrated Bishop of Athabasca, and the 

 Rev. W. D. Reeve Bishop of Mackenzie River. 



For a brief description of the inhabitants and 



