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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



Missionary 



work. 



Previous ex- 

 plorations by 

 the Geol. Sur- 

 vey staff. 



About 1847 the first missionary work among the Indians of Hudson 

 Bay was undertaken by the Methodists. These withdrawing six years 

 later, were succeeded by the English Church Mission Society, which 

 has continued the work ever since, and at present has churches at 

 Churchill, York, Albany, Moose, Eupert House and Fort George. Bev. 

 Mr. Peck, in charge of the last place, visits Little Whale Eiver every 

 spring, to meet the Esquimaux who come in from the islands at that 

 time. By the efforts of these missionaries the whole of the Indians 

 and the greater part of the Esquimaux living around Hudson Bay 

 have become Christianized, and their moral tone considerably elevated. 



The Eoman Catholics have a number of converts at Albany, who are 

 3^early visited by a missionary of that faith from the Upper Ottawa. 



The explorations in this section of the country undertaken by the 

 Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada, previous to the 

 present, are : — 



Keport 1871-2. 

 Eeport 1875-6. 



Report 1877-8. 



Report 1878-9. 

 Report 1879-80. 



Upper part of the Albany River. Dr. R. B el] . 



Mattagami and Missinaibie branches of the Moose River. Dr. 



R. Bell. 

 East coast of Hudson Bay, and country between Lake Winni- 

 peg and Hudson Bay. Dr. R. Bell. 

 Churchill and Nelson Rivers. Dr. R. Bell. 

 Hudson Bay and some of the lakes and rivers lying to the 

 west of it. Dr. R. Bell. 

 Report 1880-1-2. Geology of the basin of the Moose River. Dr. R. Bell. 

 Annual Report 1885. Observations on the Geology, Zoology and Botany of 

 Hudson Bay and Strait. Dr. R. Bell. Report on the 

 Mistassini expedition. A. P. Low. 



Attawapishkat and Albany Rivers. Dr. R. Bell. Severn 

 and Berens Rivers. A. P. Low. 



Annual Report 1886. 



James Bay. 



James' Bay. James Bay is that portion of Hudson Bay lying south of a line drawn 



from Cape Henrietta Maria, on the west, to Cape Jones, on the east 

 coast. Prom the head of Hannah Bay, N". lat. 50° 55', to Cape Hen- 

 rietta Maria, the distance is, roughly, 300 miles, while the average 

 breadth is 145 miles. 



From Cape Henrietta Maria the coast runs S.S.E. to Mourning Point, 

 a low point covered with trees, near lat. 54° 3S,* then south to Equan 

 Point, lat. 53° 53'; from there it trends well to the westward, to the 

 mouth of the Equan Eiver, and then east of south to the mouth of the 

 Albany Eiver, lat. 52° 17'. thus forming a considerable bay, and not 



incorrect maps running almost due north and south as represented on all modern 

 maps. 



* Capt. Coats' Notes. 



