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length of the more contracted part of the canyon is 5 miles and for '2 

 miles more the channel is but slightly expanded. Then it widens out 

 and incloses the Manitou Islands. 



Fort Good Hope (PL XIII, fig. 1) is built on the right bank of the 

 Mackenzie, about 2 miles below the Ramparts, only a few miles south 

 of the Arctic Circle. It consists of the establishments of the Hudson's 

 Pay Company and one or two private traders, and that of the Roman 

 Catholic mission, whose church, a highly ornamented structure, is the 



Fig. 9. — Right bank of Mackenzie, near lower end of Ramparts, near latitude 66 . 



largest in the region north of Fort Resolution. The post has occupied 

 its present site since 1837." A low limestone ridge, the continuation 



"Fort Good Hope probably existed in effeel as ;i Northwest post early in the 

 nineteenth century, but accounts differ as \<< its precise location, both Sans Sault 

 Rapid and the foot of the Ramparts being given as the earliest site. A tem- 

 porary post was built in the summer of 1805 at ' Bluefisb River,' aboul 60 miles 

 below the month of Bear Lake River. (Masson, Les Bourgeois, II. p. 104, 1890.) 

 II was established as a Hudson's Bay post on the west hank of the Mackenzie. 

 about 120 miles below the Ramparts, about isi>:;, after the union of the rival 

 companies, being spoken of by Franklin in 1825 as " bul recently established." 

 It was removed aboul L835 to Manitou Island, below the Ramparts, where its 

 site may still be soon on the eastern shore of the island nearly opposite the pres- 

 ent establishment. It was destroyed in June, L836, by a Hood caused by an ice 

 jam in the Ramparts and was rebuilt on its preseul site in ls.'JT. 



