WAKASHAN LANGUAGES. 



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Tate {liev. Charles Moutyomery). The 

 lord's prayer [in the Hailtsuk lan- 

 guage]. 



1 leaf, verso blank, 8'^. 

 Copies seen : Pilling. 



Mr. Tate came to British Colnnibia from 

 Northiimberlaiul, England, in 1870. Ho engaged 

 in mission work among the Flathead Indian.s 

 at Kanaimo, Vancouver Island, in 1871, where 

 li(^ learned tho Aiikamenum language spoken 

 by the Indian tribes on the east coast of Van- 

 couver Island, lower Fraser Kiver, and Puget 

 Sound. Here he spent three years, when he 

 removed to Port Simpson, on the bordei's of 

 Alaska, among tho Tsimpsheans. He next 

 moved to the Fraser River and spent seven 

 years amongst the Flathead tribes between 

 Yale and Westminster, frequently \isiting the 

 Indians on tho Nootsahk River in Washington 

 Territoi-y. Mr. Tate spent four years, 1880 to 

 1884, among tlie Bella-Bellas, returning in tho 

 latter year to the mission on Fraser River. 

 Tahkaht. See Tokoaat. 

 Text: 



Nutka See Brabant (A. J.) 



Tlaoquatch. SeeKlaokwat. 

 Tokoaat : 



Dictionary See Knipe (C.) 



Grammar Knipe (C.) 



Grammatic. treatise Sproat (G. M.) 



Numerals Eells (M.) 



Numerals Knipe (C.) 



Numerals Sproat (G. M.) 



Proper names Knipe (C.) 



Proper names Sproat (G, M.) 



Tribal names Knipe (C.) 



Tribal names Sproat (G. M.) 



Vocabulary Chamberlain (A. F.) 



Vocabulary Sproat (G.M.) 



Vocabulary Tolmie (W. F.) and 



Dawson (G.M.) 



Tolmie (Dr. William Fraser). [Vocabu- 

 laries of the northwest coast of Nortli 

 America.] 



In Koyal (ieog. Soc. of London, Jour. vol. 11, 

 pp. 230-246, London, 1841,8°. (Geologicil Sur- 

 vey.) 



Vocabulary of the Tlaoquateli (about 100 

 words), pp. 242-247. j 



This vocabulary and others by the same 

 author are included in an article by Scouler i 

 (J.), Observations on tho indigenous tribes of i 

 the northwest coast, pp. 215-251. 



an<l DavTson (G. M.) Geological and 



natural history survey of Canada. | 



Alfred R. C. Sehvyn, F. R. S., F. G. 8., 



Director. | Conii)arative vocabularies 



I of the I Indian tribes | of | Uritisli 



Tolmie (W. F.) and Dawson (G. M.) — 



Continued. 

 Columbia, | with a map illustrating dis- 

 tribution. I By I W. Fraser Tolmie, | 

 Licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians 

 and Surgeons, Glasgow. | And | George 

 M. Daws(m,D. S., A. S. R. M., F. G. S., 

 &c. I [Coat of arms.] | Published by 

 authority of Parliament. | 



Montreal: | Dawson brothers. | 1884. 



Cover title nearlj-as above, titleasabovever.so 

 blank 1 1. letter of transmittal signed by G. M. 

 Dawson verso blank 1 1. preface signed by G. M. 

 Dawson pp. 5b-7b, introductory note signed by 

 W. F. Tolmie pp. 9b-12b, text pp. 14B-131B, map, 

 8°. 



Comparative vocabulary (225 words) of five 

 languages, among them the Aht(Kaiookwfdik), 

 pp. 50B-60B. — " Comparative table of a few of 

 the words [68] in the foregoing vocabularies," 

 including the Aht, p. 127B. — Comparison of 4 

 words in various Indian languages of North 

 America (from various sources), among them 

 the Aht, pp. 128B-129B. 



Copies seen : Fames, Pilling, Wellesley. 

 William Fraser Tolmie was bom at Inverness, 

 Scotland, February 3, 1812, and died December 

 8, 1886, after an illness of only three days, at his 

 residence, Cloverdale, Victoria, B. C. He was 

 educated at Glasgow University, where he 

 graduated in August, 1832. On September 12 of 

 the same year he accepted a position as surgeon 

 and clerk with the Hudson's Bay Company, and 

 left home for the Columbia River, arriving at 

 Vancouver in the spring of 1833. Vancouver 

 was then the chief post of the Hudson's Bay 

 Company on this coast. In 1841 he visited his 

 native land, but returned in 1842 overland via 

 the plains and the Columbia, and was placed in 

 charge of the Hudson's Bay jiosts on Puget 

 Sound. He here took a prominent part, during 

 the Indian war of 185.5-'56, in pacifying the 

 Indians. Being an excellent linguist, he had 

 acquired a knowledge of the native tongues, 

 and was instrumental in bringing about peace 

 between the whites and the Indians. He wa.s 

 appointed chief factor of the Hudson's Bay 

 Company in 185.5, removed to Vancouver Island 

 in 1859, when ho went into stockraising, being 

 the first to introduce thoroughbred stock into 

 British Columbia; was a member of the local 

 legislature two terms, until 1878 ; was a member 

 of the first board of education for several years, 

 exercising a great influence in educational mat- 

 ters ; held many offices of trust, and wiis always 

 a valued and respected citizen. 



Mr. Tolmie was known to ethnologists forhis 

 contributions to the liistoryand linguistics of 

 the nati\e races of tlu-. West Coast, and dated his 

 interest In ethnologit^al matters from his contact 



