CHAPTER XXXV. 



The Klotz Overland Hudson's Bay Expedition. 



the great saskatchewan country — the north and south sas- 

 katchewan — the proposed calgary, prince albert and 

 hudson's bay railway — distances as compared with the 

 canadian pacific railway — advantages of the route. 



^cw^T^HILE the Minister of Marine was preparing to send an 

 J I 7 A '■% Expedition to Hudson's Bay by water, the Minister of 

 it '/Ijvfl the Interior was arranging to dispatch an Exploration 

 l — «2^j Party overland to the same point. The object of the 

 latter was to place the Government in possession of reliable infor- 

 mation concerning the character of a part of the country, at least, 

 over which it was proposed to construct the Manitoba and Hudson's 

 Bay railway. Accordingly in April, 1884, an Exploration Party was 

 fitted out, and placed in charge of Otto J. Klotz, C.E., D.T.S., 

 President of the Dominion Land Surveyor's Association, of Preston, 

 Ontario, and instructed to examine the character of the • country and 

 river from the Forks to Lake Winnipeg, on the Saskatchewan, and 

 from the Lake to York Factory on Hudson's Bay, on the Nelson. 



This Expedition was placed under the command of an able man. 

 Mr. Klotz is a German. He was educated at University College, 

 Toronto, and at the University of Michigan, and has been pro- 

 minently connected with the Government Surveys of the North- 

 West for several years. The objects of his undertaking were to 

 make a micrometer survey of the Saskatchewan and Nelson Rivers, 

 to note the general topography of the adjacent country, and to make 

 special magnetic observations for scientific purposes. 



Having organized his party, Mr. Klotz proceeded to Winnipeg, 

 where he purchased supplies and sent them across Lake Winnipeg to 



