l66 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF NEWFOUNDLAND 



and Bay of \\\{\q\i the IMicmacs travelled by the westerly route, and some 



^^iTfrethey ^^ ^^^se goals 



and some 



English- 



men recent 

 ly settled), 



anked as independent but subsidiary bases. 

 The first was St. George Bay, on the west coast, whose rivers 

 rise close by the affluents of the Upper Exploits. Micmacs 

 already resided in St. George Bay for reasons the opposite of 

 those which attracted them to their chief bases. They came 

 thither by sea in their canoes from Cape Breton Island im- 

 mediately after, and in consequence of, the Treaty of 1783, 

 under a chief, with British consent, and their object was not 

 to escape from but to associate with British colonists who were 

 already there, and with whom they afterwards intermarried.^ 

 Similiar social reasons induced a Micmac mother of many 

 daughters to migrate from St. George Bay to Humber Sound in 

 the Bay of Islands, where a Dorsetshire father of seven sons, 

 and another white patriarch and his numerous sons, were the 

 only, or almost the only residents long before and for seventeen 

 years after 1822.^ A glance at the map will show a back way 

 by fresh water from the Bay of Islands up the Humber River, 

 Deer Lake, and Junction Brook to Grand Lake, whose feeders 

 almost overlap the feeders of St. George Bay. This was a con- 

 tinuation of the western Indian way, and was known to the Mic- 

 macs from time immemorial, and through them to one or two 

 and thence English trappers before 1839. There was also a continuation 

 %fiite"and ^^ ^^"^ continuation which led from Deer Lake up the Upper 

 //all Bays; Humber, over a shallow portage, and down Indian Brook to 

 Hall Bay on the north-east coast, where there were two or 

 three English families in 1828, and only some six families, 

 chiefly Micmac, as late as 1878. Many Micmacs and one 

 English trapper used this last route long before 1841.^ We 

 read, too, of Micmacs varying or extending this trip by going 



1 Lieutenant Chappell, Voyage of //.M.S. Rosamund, 181 8, p. "jS. 

 Ante, p. 141. 



2 Jukes, op, cit., vol. i, pp. 100-115, 7wm. Brake and Blanchard ; and 

 ante^ p. 141. 



2 Borinycaslle, Neivfoundland in 1842, vol. ii, p. 242; A. Murray 

 and J. P. Howley, Geological Survey of N'civfoundland, 1881, p. 502 ; 

 John MacGregor, op, cit., vol. i, \>. 265. 



