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would appear that he travelled from some point on the Nelson River 

 above Split Lake to the open country north of the Saskatchewan. 



1693. — War having broken out between England and France, the 

 Company, with the assistance of the Crown, retook Albany, Moose and 

 Rupert forts. 



1694 D'Iberville, with two ships and 120 men, took York fort from Iberville 



the English, and the same year the French sent such a force from York^Aibany! 

 Canada that they easily drove the English out of Albany, Moose and R„pe?tasj 

 Rupert forts. 



1695. — The Company, with the assistance of the Bonaventure and 

 Seaford, a second time recovered Moose, Albany and Rupert forts. 



1696. — The English, with four ships, took York from the French, 

 carrying ihe garrison prisoners to England. 



1697. — The French sent a squadron of five ships under D'Iberville, 

 who destroyed two English ships, and afterwards took possession of 

 York and called it Fort Bourbon. By the treaty of Ryswick, signed 

 in this year, each country was to return all places taken during the 

 war, holding those taken previous to it. By this the only place left to 

 the Hudson's Bay Company was the fort at Albany. This state of 

 things continued until the treaty of Utrecht, 1713, when the French 

 ceded all their rights in the bay to the English. 



1702. — The French rebuilt Fort Severn, calling it Fort Xeuve 

 Savanne, and the river Riviere des Saintes Huiles ; they also called 

 Moose Fort St. Louis, and Albany, Fort Ste. Anne. 



1714. — The English formally took possession of York and the other 

 forts on the bay. 



1718. — A wooden fort was built at the mouth of the Churchill Biver. Forts re- taken 

 and named Fort Prince of Wales. by the EngIish ' 



1719. — Capt. Knight sailed with two ships to search for a north-west 

 passage from the northern parts of the bay. They never returned. 



1720. — About this year the Company sent Richard Norton inland 

 from Churchill, and, according to the testimony of Brown before the 

 Committee in 174!*, he is said to have reached the Coppermine River, 

 but this is doubtful, as no journal of the journey was produced. 



1732. — A wooden fort was erected at Moose, and a small post estab- 

 lished at the mouth of the Slude, or East Main Biver. About this time 

 a post wus also built at Richmond Gulf for trade with the Northern 

 Indians or Esquimaux. The people here on two occasions were mas- 

 sacred by the Esquimaux, and the post was then abandoned. 



1737. — Two sloops were sent to the northward from Churchill to 

 open trade with the natives, and look for a northern passage to the 

 westward ; this latter object seems to have never been seriously under- 

 taken. 



