58 'Transactions. 1897-8. 



Mount St.Elias and Mount Logan in Rimouski County by Mur- 

 ray. The fourth is an island in the Nipigon region, given by 

 Bell in 1869, and the fifth is Logan Inlet in Queen Charlotte 

 Islands. 



Lake and River Labarge (Yukon) are named after Mike 

 Labarge who was engaged in exploring, for the Western Union 

 Telegraph Co., the river and adjacent territory in Yukon for 

 the purpose of connecting Europe and America by telegraph 

 through Canada, Alaska and across Behring Strait and on 

 through Asia. The exploration took place in 1865-7. ^^^ 

 successful laying of the Atlantic Cable in 1866 put an end to 

 the project. Mike was on hand to greet Nansen in Montreal 

 the other day. Telegraph Creek commemorates the same 

 expedition. Mount Dawson, near Lake Labarge, and Dawson 

 City are place-names which tell of one of the most indefatigable 

 explorers of modern days, one whose career does honor to the 

 Civil Service of Canada. The men. of the Geological Survey 

 are worthy of praise because they have in so many instances 

 retained the Indian names. 



In 1864 a notable gathering took place in the historical 

 City of Quebec. There were gathered men from the provinces 

 of Canada, (now Ontario and Quebec,) from Prince Edward 

 Island, from Newfoundland, from New Brunswick and Nova 

 Scotia. They met to see what could be done to bring about 

 the amalgamation of British North America. To this gather- 

 ing came the venerable Tache, the astute John A. Macdonald, 

 the fiery Cartier, the splendid debater McDougall, the great 

 Onontio George Brown, the able financier Gait, the shrewd 

 Mowat, the eloquent McGee, the vehement Tupper, the suave 

 Archibald, the trusted Tilley, the active Mitchell, the keen- 

 minded Fisher and many others of whom time fails me to tell. 

 They debated and discussed. Many suspicions were in thr 

 public mind. But in secrecy, as was necessary, they worked 

 and hammered till they produced 72 resolutions which, after 

 being fused in the alembic of the statute-shapers of the British 

 Parliament, were placed upon the Imperial Statute book as 

 the Union Act ofiSSy, Those who took part in this historical 

 work liave been remembered in the place-names Tache, Mac- 

 donald (municipality and mount) McDougall, Brown, Camp- 

 bell, Mowat, Langevin, Tupper, Tilley, Archibald, Johnston 

 and Chapai$. There are some others whose names might well 



