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How many intelligent, manly fellows had joined in 

 good cheer, those fortnightly meetings, each winter- 

 season ? At that same table had sat, in 1810, the clever 

 Earl of Selkirk, worming out their inward thoughts and 

 schemes, before turning savagely against them ! He 

 died in 1820. Later on Lt. (Sir) John Franklin, had 

 pledged in a foaming bumper the health of the club, 

 whilst the northern blast was howling over the brow of 

 the neighboring Mount Eoyal : — alas, to yield up, later, 

 his noble spirit at the call of duty to a still wilder blast 

 on the arctic shores, in 1848, the heroic fellow ! 



How many others have sat together at the festive 

 board : brimful of life, buoyant with hope, heedless of 

 forest perils : McGill the founder of McGill College, 

 Benjamin and Joseph Frobisher, Sir Alexander McKen- 

 zie, Simon McTavish, Eoderick McKenzie, his son 

 Charles, Chs. J. B. Chaboillez, Simon and Alexander 

 Fraser, James Forsyth, John Eichardson, John Gregory 

 N. Montour, E. Grant, W. McGilvray, Peter Pangman, 

 John Eoss, Peter Stuart, Duncan McGilvray, William 

 Hallowell, Angus Shaw, Wm. McKay, John McDonald, 

 Alex. McDougall, Alex. Mackay, Hugh McGillis, Alex. 

 King, jr., James McKenzie, Desrivieres, Moffatt, Gilles- 

 pie, Frs. Ant. Larocque, Pierre de Eocheblave, John 

 Duncan Campbell, John Mure, Alex. Ellice, John 

 Willis, James Leith, D. Thompson, John Thomas, 

 Eoderick Walker and a host of others. 



The Beaver Club closed its doors, a very few years 

 after the absorption of the North West Co., by the 

 Hudson Bay Co., in 1821. 



A few rude old cups and pieces of solid plate crop up 

 occasionally to tell their tale as silent witnesses of 

 the past. McTuvish's Castle — at the foot of the mount- 

 ain, with a ghost in it as all respectable old castles are 

 expected to have, has made room, for another eminent 

 Scotchman's mansion, Sir Hugh Allan's ! 



Burnside Hall has disappeared. The Lords of the 

 Lakes and Forests are gone ! 



