Paul Kane's Journal of his Western Travels, 1846-1848 - History and ...

stands a few Words of Cree . . . . Can have no pretensions to
look forward to advancement" (204).
Dog lake Along the fur trade route north of Lake Superior, this
is the only lake of appreciable size on the eastern side of the
height of land. See also big dog poartage.
dogs bed
See Lake Winapeg.
dry dance Mounten lbis hill, in modem southwestern
Manitoba, has not been identified, but, from the other locations
named by Kane, it is clear that it is situated east of the
Turtle Mountains and of the Pembina River. Both the journal
and WA (53-54) provide full accounts of the name of this
rise.
Eales/EaUs The Reverend Cushing Eells, with the Reverend
Elkanah Walker, established a Presbyterian mission to the
Spokane Indians at Tshimakain in 1844; it was abandoned in
1848, the year after Kane visited it and as a consequence of
the Cayuse wars, the outbreak of which occurred with the
murder of the Whitmans, colleagues of Eells and Walker.
The first reference to the "Methedist mishon of Mr
Wacker and Eales" is incorrect (and is not repeated in WA):
the Methodist mission at The Dalles, which Kane remarks
passing on July 7, 1847, was founded by the Reverend
H. K. W. Perkins at Wascopam in April, 1838. By 1847, it
was being run by the American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions.
Edmonton/Edmunton Fort Edmonton (est. 1795; moved 1812)
was visited by Kane September 27 to October 5, 1846, December
5, 1847 to January 5, 1848, and for portions of March,
April, and May, 1848. The northernmost post on the North
Saskatchewan River, named by Chief Factor William Tomison
for the baptismal place in England of his clerk, John Peter
Pruden (see Prudence, Mr.), Fort Edmonton was built into an
important post even though peace was precariously maintained
among the various warring and starving tribes who traded,
visited, and occasionally lived at it. Extremely well built and
fortified, it was consequently referred to by its sobriquet,
"Sanspareil. "
eraquay /Eraquay/Eraqua/Eroqua Kane means Iroquois,
the tenn designating the six tribes - Seneca, Cayuga,
Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora - originally inhabiting
only upper New York state. Having, for the most part,
supported the Loyalists in the American Revolution, Iroquois
tribes continued peaceful relations with the British when they
migrated northward. The Kanawake reserve near Lachine
(outside Montreal) supplied many workers for the HBe.
fall of the Pransin Horses or silver fall On the lower Winnipeg
River between Lac du Bormet and Lake Winnipeg, this fall
(Eaux qui Remuent was its French name) of twenty feet was
passed by Kane's brigades on June 10, 1846, and August 3,
1848. Three hydroelectric dams have flooded this portion of
the river.
Fort Alaxander/Fort Alexander Fort Alexander (est. 1783)
was visited by Kane June 11, 1846, and July 30 to August 3,
1848. lbis post was located on the Winnipeg River, three
miles from its mouth, on the east bank.
Fort Asneboin See Frot Asneboin.
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Fort Frames See fourt Frances.
Fort Garey Upper Fort Garry (est. 1835) was visited by Kane
June 15-17 and July 2-4, 1846. Located at the forks of the
Assiniboine and Red rivers, seventy miles north of the Manitoba/Minnesota
and North Dakota border, this fort was
erected on the site of Fort Rouge, established by Pierre de la
Verendrye in 1738. It was named for Nicholas Garry, one of
the London governors of the HBC. In 1876, its name was
changed to Winnipeg.
Fort victoria Fort Victoria (est. 1843) was visited by Kane
April9toMay6, and May 14 to June 10,1847. This post was
established as the HBC' s alternative hub on the Pacific Slope to
Fort Vancouver, which, especially with the Great Migration
along the Oregon Trail in 1843, appeared destined to become
American territory. 1be new post was named for the British
monarch who had come to the throne in 1837.
Fort Willam/fort WiUam/Willwn Fort William (est. 1679)
was visited by Kane May 24, 1846, and September 19, 1848.
On the Kaministikwia River in Thunder Bay, Lake Superior,
this fort was built in 1679, but was not known by the English
name until the nineteenth century. Named for William Mc­
Gillivray, President of the North West Company, it became the
Great Lakes' hub of Canadian fur trading in 1803, after border
surveys determined that the former tenninus, Grand Portage,
lay in American territory, and therefore, that Americans were
entitled to levy duties on goods passing through it. In 1970, the
name of Fort William was changed to Thunder Bay, Ontario.
fourt Frances/Fort Franses Fort Frances (est. 1731) was
visited by Kane June 4-5, 1846, and August 23 to September
10, 1848. lbis post at Rainy Lake stood on the site where
Pierre de la Verendrye (1685-1749) had established Fort St.
Pierre in 1731. Kane errs in attributing the name to "Ladey
Simsons sister Mrs. Findelson"; the fort was named for Lady
Simpson herself in 1830, after she passed it during her honeymoon
trip from Lachine (near Montreal) to York Factory.
Fracher/frasher/~ber/F~bur/F'nRr, Colin WA states:
"A Highlander of the name of Colin Frazer had joined our
party. He was on his way to a small post [Jasper House] ...
where he had resided for the last eleven years. He had been
brought to the country by Sir George Simpson, in the capacity
of his piper . ... He carried the pipes with him, dressed in his
Highland costume: and when stopping at forts or wherever he
found Indians, the bagpipes were put in requisition, much to
the astonishment of the natives, who supposed him to be a
relation of the Great Spirit, having, of course, never beheld so
extraordinary a looking man: or such a musical instrument,
which astonished them as much as the sound produced" (98-99).
Frances, fourt/Franses, Fort See fourt Frances/Fort
Frames.
Franklin, Sur John Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), British
Arctic explorer, had sailed on his third expedition in search of
the North West Passage in 1845. By June, 1848, the British
Admiralty decided to send out expeditions in search of Franklin's
crew, from whom no word had beea received and of
whom no sightings had been reported since 1845. (The remains
of the 139-man crew were not found until 1859. The
cause of their deaths is still being studied in the 1980s.) Of
coincidental interest is Kane's hearing the news of Franklin's
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