Canadian Expedition to the Red River. = = 925 
The expedition has achieved much. They made very com- 
prehensive levellings, effected numerous measurements of width, 
depth and rapidity of rivers and lakes, made geological observa- 
tions, inquired into the climate, forests, quality of soil, etc., made 
surveys and discoveries between Lake of the Woods and the 
Red river, between the Assiniboine river and the U.S. boundary, 
along the upper Assiniboine and Qu’ Appelle rivers, in the dis- 
trict of the great lakes, etc. .A comparison of their charts with 
the older ones of these districts will at once show that the money 
was not thrown away. 
This expedition has moreover excited the curiosity of the people 
more than that under Capt. Palliser. Thus a society was formed 
at St. Paul in Minnesota, who, under the direction of Col. Nobles, 
left this city in June, 1859, with the object to explore the val- 
leys and sources of the Saskatchewan and Columbia rivers. 
Their plan was, to start from the elbow of Bow river toward the 
Rocky Mountains, to explore carefully the region of their east- 
ern foot up to Edmonton House, thence to go over Athalaska 
Portage between Mount Hooker and Mount Brown toward the 
sources of Thompson’s river and here to disperse in different 
directions, Col. Nobles intended to start for the sources of Co- 
lumbia river, and to return over Lewis and Clarke’s Passage, 
the Missouri Falls, the valley of the Milk river; Fort Mandan, — 
Big Stone Lake, and Fort Ridgley to St. Paul. Dr. Goodrich 
accompanies them as physician, and the Smithsonian Institution 
sent Dr. C. L. Anderson, of Minneapolis, to make scientific ob- 
Setvations and collections. 
The “ Board of Trade” in St. Paul offered a reward of $1000 
for the first. steamer that should ply on or before the first of 
June on the Red river, and the “Anson Northup” really com- 
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