INDEX. 



447 



Floods, flood years, ii. 393. 



. effects of, in 1852, i. 329 ; ii. 393. 



the Bishop of Rupert's Land's descrip- 

 tion, ii. 394. 



speculations as to the causes of the 



floods, ii. 395. 



effects of, on the prairies near the 



Little Souris River, i. 295. 



Flowers, profusion of, at Long Creek, Main 

 Saskatchewan River, i. 406, 407. 



■ and at the Touchwood Hills, i. 413. 



Fog-bows on Lake Superior, i. 10. 



Fogs on Lake Superior, i. 10. 



Fond du Lac, i. 21, 



Forests in the country west of Red River, 

 i. 244. 



■■ between the Assinniboine River and 



the Blue Hills, i. 284. 

 former, north of the Qu'appelle River, 



i. 318. 



aspen, on the south branch of the 



Saskatchewan, i. 386. 



■ old, near Long Creek, Main Saskatche- 

 wan River, i. 404. 



destruction of forests by the Indians, 



i. 405. 



former, on the Touchwood Hills, i. 



415. 



covering the Riding Mountain, ii. 56. 



■ growth of, intimately connected with 



the climate of a large extent of coun- 

 try, ii. 376. 



Fort William, i. 24, 25, 30. 



de Meuron, ruins of the, i. 32. 



Frances, i. 81, 82. 



description of, i. 82. 



sketch of, i. 86. 



Alexander, Winnipeg River, i. 121. 



Stone, or Lower, on Red River, i. 124, 



127, 133. 



— — Garry, i. 124, 127, 132. 



Pelly, i. 137, 138. 



■ a la Corne, i. 240, 397. 



Clark, on the Missouri, Mandan vil- 

 lage at, i. 299. 



Ellice, Assinniboine River, i. 137,138, 



310. 



trail from the Touchwood Hills to the, 



i. 420. 



of the Hudson's Bay Company at the 



Grand Forks of the Saskatchewan, i. 

 397. 



Cumberland House, i. 446, 447. 



Cedar Lake House, i. 460. 



Manitobah House, ii. 64, et seq. 



dogs of the posts, ii. 118. 



Pembina, ii. 87, 88. 



Forty- Fourth Lake, i. 261. 

 Fossils of the valley of the Little Souris, or 

 Mouse River, i. 289. 



Fossils, found on the shores of Lake Win- 

 nipeg, ii. 14. 



of Snake Island, ii. 42. 



of the shores of Lake Manitobah, ii. 



38. 



of the chazy formation of Lake Win- 

 nipeg, ii. 285. 



from Devonian rocks in the Winnipeg 



basin, ii. 296. 



from the Souris, ii. 334. 



" Fox, the," chief of the Plain Crees, ii. 126. 



fear in which he is held, ii. 126. 



Francis Xavier, St., Roman Catholic mis- 

 sion of, on the Assinniboine River, i. 

 148. 



Franklin, Sir John, his residence at Cum- 

 berland House, i. 449. 



voyage of Messrs. Stewart and An- 

 derson in search of, i. 450. 



" Freemen's " houses in the Qu' appelle 

 valley, i. 332. 



French Portage, i. 66. 



Fruit of the valley of the Kaministiquia, 

 i. 30, 36. 



of the valley of the Current River, 



i. 43, note. 



of the Red River settlements, i. 204. 



Fuel, scarcity of, in the Valleys of the Red 

 and Assinniboine Rivers, i. 144. 



question of a supply of, at Red River 



settlements, i. 23. 



scarcity of, west of the Little Souris 



Island, i. 246. 



scarcity of, at Sand Hill Lake, and on 



the south branch of the Assinni- 

 boine, i. 246. 



■ scarcity of, through Indian waste, i. 



338. 



bois de vache used as, i. 343. 



Fur trade of British America, head quarters 

 of the, i. 127. 



results of the, in the blending of the 



various tribes of Indians, ii. 121. 

 ■ extent of the administration of the 

 Hudson's Bay Company for the pro- 

 secution of the, ii. 211. 



Gambling, fondness of the Indians for, i. 

 282. 



Game, on the banks of the Saskatchewan, 

 i. 393. 



— — • scarcity of, in the prairies, ii. 143. 

 Garden Island, i. 96. 



encampment on, i. 97. 



description of, i. 100. 



grasshoppers of, i. 101. 



Garden at the Qu'appelle Fishery, i. 322. 

 Garry, Fort, on the Red River, i. 124, 127, 

 132. 



its extent, i. 133. 



