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THE RED RIVER
BY
OF THE NORTH-WEST COMPANY
Aner Jeaving the North-West Company's Fort at the entrance
of river Ouinipique, we have nearly eighteen leagues of the
lake of the name to coast along before coming to the entrance
of the Red River.
This river enters Lake Ollinipique at its south-east corner by
three different channels; the middle channel is the deepest and
most practicable, the others are choked up by sand at their
entrance into the Lake. It is lined with very tall reeds, the
wood being only discernible at a distance. This middle branch
is the road of all canoes, &c., that enter the river. All the
branches join a league above the entrance, and, two leagues
(1) Mr. John McDonnell was a brother of Mr. Miles McDonnell, the first governor
·of Lord Selkirk's Red River Colony. He became a Partner of the North-West
Company about 1796, and remained in the North-West till ISHi., He then sold his
share and settled at Pointe Fortune, in. the township of Hawkesbury, where he kept a
store and ran boats to Montreal. -
Mr. McDonnell died at Pointe .Fortune, leaving several children, who all died without
issue, and he was buried in the Catholic cemetery of Rigaud. Mr. W. J. McDonnell, .
vice consul of France in Toronto, is his nephew.