YORK DISTEICT. 



MAM:\IALS of northern CANvVDA 275 



58. Portage La Prairie. 69. Split Lake. 



59. Souris River. 70. Nelson River. 



60. St. Laurent. 71. Beren's River. 



61. Oak Point. 72. Grand Rapid. 



LAC LA PLllE DISTRICT. 



62. Fort Alexander (headquar- 



ters). '^3. York Factory (headquar- 



63. Fort Frances. ters). 



64. Rat Portage. 74. Fort Churchill. 



65. Lac Seul. 75. Severn. 



66. Hungry Hall. 76. Oxford House. 



67. Eagle's Nest. „ g^^.^ Lake. 



NORVi'AY HOUSE DISTRICT. 78. Trout Lake. 



68. Norway House (headquar- '?9- Island Lake. 



ters). 80. Jackson Bay. 



5. 



The statement of the Company's London fur sales from 

 1853 to 1877, inclusive, so frequently quoted and referred 

 to in these Xotes, was given to me many years ago by my 

 old friend, the late Chief Factor Robert Campbell, F.R.G.S., 

 the discoverer and explorer of the Upper Yukon, with its 

 important tributaries, the Lewis, Pelly, and Stewart rivers. 



Mr. Campbell was a man of great integrity of character, whose 

 name comes close to the end in a long list of active and undaunted 

 men who, from the days of Sir Alexander Mackenzie and the 

 earlier times of the French-Canadian and English explorers, 

 traversed mountains, ascended rivers and trod the then unknown 

 wilds of North America. It would certainly be impossible to find 

 their superiors, and not, proportionally, very many their peers, in 

 any service. From 1838 to 1848 Mr. Campbell made many remarii- 

 able explorations, the result of which, though scarcely appreciated 

 at the time even by the Company for which he worked, can never 

 be forgotten in the history of north-western Canada. He died in 

 Manitoba in the month of April, 1892, aged 80 years. 



We have neither time nor space to dilate on the great 

 services rendered to Canada (and the British Empire) by 

 her own splendid North-West Company of Montreal, as well 



