His next postings were to the Athabaska and Fort des Prairies departments, the farthest exten- sions of the fur trade at the close of the eighteenth century.3 Following Tumor's example, Thompson observed, mapped, kept a journal and looked forward to the senior partners' approval of expe- 1. See Nicks's account of Thompson in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. [...] George Simpson, the governor of the new Northern Department, continued the HBC practice of forwarding information to Aaron Arrowsmith, who used it to update his own map of North America.7 In 1817, Thompson was engaged by the International Boundary Commission set up by the Treaty of Ghent to survey the Anglo- American border from Lake of the Woods to the Eastern Townships of Quebec. [...] Anxious to fit the (absence of) data to his theory of the "race," Morton hinted darkly: "It is not safe to rely on evidence of the man Thompson himself, all the more so since there is a strange, perhaps a determined silence in his journals at this point."10 Confusing, as Tyrrell had done, the roles of historian and editor, Glover took up the "race" debate in the second edition of the Narrative and [...] The persona of the journals, which is retained in great measure in the Narrative, defeats the efforts of Tyrrell, Glover, Hopwood and others to characterize and identify the writer apart from his distinct functions in the two texts. [...] Mackenzie's journal relates the incidents of the day to his "darling project" of reaching the Pacific; Fraser's journal obsessively recounts the dangers of his voyage; Simpson's ruminates on the reorganization of the Columbia Department.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- Introduction 10
- Signs and Abbreviations 26
- Columbia Journals 28
- Journey to the Kootanaes 30
- Journey to the Bow River 39
- Journey to the Rocky Mountain 48
- Across the Mountains 62
- Building Kootanae House 81
- Journey to the Lake Indian Country 102
- From Boggy Hall to Kootanae House 123
- Along the Saleesh River 131
- Athabaska Pass 144
- The Lower Columbia 169
- Return Upstream 184
- Notes to the Text 206
- Journey to the Kootanaes 208
- Journey to the Bow River 222
- Journey to the Rocky Mountain 229
- Across the Mountains 236
- Building Kootanae House 245
- Journey to the Lake Indian Country 258
- From Boggy Hall to Kootanae House 266
- Along the Saleesh River 270
- Athabaska Pass 276
- The Lower Columbia 291
- Return Upstream 307
- Maps 318
- List of Sources 348
- Index 358
- A 358
- B 358
- C 358
- D 359
- E 359
- F 359
- G 359
- H 359
- I 360
- J 360
- K 360
- L 360
- M 360
- N 361
- O 361
- P 361
- R 362
- S 362
- T 362
- U 363
- V 363
- W 363
- Y 363