40 ALL AFLOAT 



to the guide, who marched first. After him 

 came the band, consisting of buglers and bag- 

 pipers. Next came the governor, mounted, and 

 behind him Hamlyn and Macdonald, also on 

 horses. Twenty men loaded like beasts of 

 burden formed the line, and finally M 'Gillivray 

 with his wife and family brought up the rear.' 

 On the nineteenth day out from York Factory 

 Simpson reached Fort Langley at the mouth 

 of the Fraser. 



How far away it all seems now in this new 

 twentieth century ! And yet, as in the case 

 of Alexander Mackenzie, there is a wonder- 

 fully intimate human link connecting that 

 time with our own ; for Lord Strathcona was 

 born before the amalgamation of the rival 

 companies in 1821 ; he became the last resi- 

 dent-governor of the Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany while Francois Beaulieu, Mackenzie's 

 centenarian voyageur, was still alive ; and he 

 lived until 1914, the year of the Great World 

 War. 



