From Lake Winnipeg to Hudson's Bay. 



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unites its many channels in Little Playgreen Lake, and the Norway 

 House of to-day — once one of the most important Hudson's Bay 

 posts in America — is situated on the south shore of this lake where 

 one of these channels runs into it. The distance from Warren's 

 Landing to Norway House is twenty-three and a-half miles. 



It will assist the reader to look over the following table of 

 distances on the Nelson River route before reading an account of 

 the journey : — 



Lake Winnipeg to Norway House 



n Sea Falls 



H Pipestone Lake 



Cross Lake (H. B. P.) 



ii Ebb-and-Flow Rapids 



White Mud Falls 



ii Forks, Duck Lake 



M Red Rock Rapids 



ii Lake Sepewisk 



ii Nelson River (proper) * 



ii Grand Rapids 



ii Split Lake 



H. B. Post, Split Lake 



ii End of Split Lake 



H Gull Lake 



ii Gull Rapids 



ii Last Limestone Rapids 



ii Beacon Point, Hudson's Bay 



231 m iies. 

 43f 



71 

 83£ 

 91| 

 96| 



1061 



ll4 

 122i. 



154f 



225f 

 232| 

 2461 

 2561 

 275f 

 285f 

 3541 

 4291 



The commercial importance of Norway House has in a great 

 measure departed. Previous to the opening of communication be- 

 tween Manitoba and the eastern Provinces of Canada, all the 

 importations into the interior and exports from it by the Hudson's 

 Bay Company were transported by way of Norway House ; but for 

 a number of years back this has not been the case, and the post has 

 greatly fallen into disuse. At this place one meets with old Mr. 

 Hector Morrison, who has been nearly sixty years in the Company's 

 service, and who accompanied Sir John Richardson and Dr. Rae in 

 their arctic expeditions. 



There are something over twenty buildings belonging to the 



