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If we steam up ninety miles farther along Hamilton 

 Inlet, we reach the Northwest River station of this same 

 company. From here they supply potatoes, carrots, cab- 

 bages, and other vegetables of their own growing to the 

 outside posts. It is beautifully situated at the mouth 

 of a lonely salmon river, with a well-wooded background 

 and a level-grassed, pebbly, and sandy beach in front. Here 

 the Canadian party viewed the eclipse in 1905, and here the 

 present Lord Strathcona, the grand old man of British 

 North America, spent thirteen years of his early life. No 

 place is better worth a visit. The vast quantities of fresh 

 water pouring into the great Lake Melville make it quite 

 warm, and bathing can be indulged in there as well as any- 

 where in England. 



The station at Cartwright, the southernmost of the Hud- 

 son's Bay Company stations, is the one, however, best 

 known to visitors, and to the world also, from the famous 

 journals of the founder. The entire people of that bay for 

 long years depended on it for all their supplies, but now 

 they trade also largely with the southerners at their summer 

 stations at Gready and Pax Harbour, and also with the 

 French firm of Revillon Freres, who built a station in the 

 bay in 1907. This firm has been spreading its stations 

 wherever the Hudson's Bay Company carries on operations, 

 and metaphorically have, in each place, put down their 

 trading-post in the latter's back yard. A few years ago 

 this would have originated feuds and strife, as in the famous 

 days of the Northwest Company in Canada. But now-a- 

 days there seems no personal animosity, and the various 

 factors can even meet and smoke together the pipe of peace. 

 Revillon Freres have a station also at Northwest River. 



