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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. The American Art Journal/Volume XXI • Number 2 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 71
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