182 LABRADOR 
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 Fréres, 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 Fréres have a station also at Northwest River. 
