CHAPTER VI. 



FORTS AND POSTS. 



The Hudson's Bay Company's establishments 

 comprised two Factories, several Forts and nu- 

 merous posts, out-posts and smaller ones called 

 "flying posts." I am writing of the days gone 

 by for now, since the country is opened up, 

 forts, as they were then known, no longer exist. 

 The so-called factories were not places in which 

 fabrics or other goods were manufactured, but 

 more rightly speaking great depots where an 

 entire year's supplies were stored in advance in 

 case of a mishap to either of the ships. 



The country was subdivided into the North- 

 ern Department and Southern Department. 

 York Factory supplying the requirements of 

 the former and Moose Factory the latter. At 

 these places the summer months was their busy 

 season, for not only did they receive the next 

 year's outfit from the ships, but numerous bri- 

 gades of boats and canoes were continually load- 

 ing and departing for the far away inland posts 

 and forts. 



With the exception of one or two which were 



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