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Detail O/MAP TO ILLUSTRATE M~ KANE'S TRAVELS IN THE TERRITORY OF THE HUDSON'S BA Y COMPANY shown in ilS entirery on pages 16 and 17.
his right hand. He was noted as the last of the fur made f to customarily to wear the ceremonial w rd. In his " Character B k, ' Governor imp n regarded him as •'a very active bu tling fellow who i not paring of personallabouc to forward the intere ts of the concern .. . .Ius integrity i unq 'onabl and I have never d . teeted him in a faJ hood wruch i more than I can say of his associates" 185). In 1849, he left Colville for Cumberland House. Harper prints a certificate of authenticity wrinen by Lewes after he examined Kane' an at Fort Colville, September 16, 1847 (329-330). Lewes was me son of Charles Lee Lewes. a famous actor at Covent Garden and Drury Lane theatres. Low, Mr. Kane met Thomas Lowe (1824-1912) at Fort Vancoover m December, 1847, but mentions him in his journal only in the entries for October 28 - 30, 1847, when they passed at Boat Encampment. and for May 22, 1848 , when Lowe reached Fan Edmonton. These meetings occurred because, although Lowe was nominally stationed in the Columbia district" he was in, charge of the annual express brigade to York Factory on Hudson Bay. When he left the HBC in 1850, he set up business in Oregon City, San Francisco, and Victoria. Iowr fort See tone on Red River /lowr fort. Lucie, Fransway / F~ Loude Fran~is Lucie, a Cree Metis hunter who taught Kane the fine points of bison hWlting when Kane stayed at Fon Edmonton in December, 1841, traveled downriver with Kane for a day in January, 1848. He has not been further identified. In some of its inflated prose, WA recounts Lucie's prudent refusal to allow Kane to fire at agrizzIy bear: Hit was ten chances to one that: three balls would not kill him quick enough to prevent a hand-to-hand encounter, a sort of amusement that neither [Kane nor Lucie] were Quixotic enough to desire" (266-267). See also Lefrombeys. Lone narrows See Lake Winapcg. Macanac Mackinac Island, western Lake Huron, where the fur trade had been established in the early eighteenth century, and where a settlement had succeeded forts by the time of Kane's visits, served as a rendezvous where the United Saares Government armuaUy made its payments to the Ojibwa and Onawa tribes. Kane spent three weeks there on his trip of 1845 (see Inrroduction), as weU as his whisde stop in May, 1846. Mcbane, Mr. William McBean, a Metis, had joined the HBC in 1828 and was the Chief Trader stationed at Fort Walla Walla, or Nez Perce, from 1846 until 1851 , when be retired from the service. Like John Lee Lewes (see ~, Mr.), McBean supplied Kane with a certificate of authenticity respecting his art (Harper [328]). Also in 1847, he met John Mix Stanley, the American painter who narrowly escaped death at the Whitman mission massacre. According to Governor Simpson's "Owacter Book, " McBean would have been about forty years of age in 1847, when Kane met him; " Writes a fair hand and \Ulde:mands common accounts which is the extent of his Education. Neither bright nor useful ' ~ (232). McKi.osey, M See McKimey, Mr./tbe Majer/the Mager. McKinsey, Mr /tJre Majer I the Mager There is a strong possibility that M McKinsey is Major Mc.l(imey, and that the Mc Kinseys brigade includes the Major, his wife, aod his daughter. Thus all the McKinseys listed here refer to the same man, HBC 78 cleric Donald MCKenzie (ft. 1818- 1850), and . 3mily. In making an ironical reference the M . r' courage on Lake Winnipeg, Kane ms to have ized up this man ' t the fur trade did. Indeed, judging by Governor impson' " ''-IloiIlIlII..4,1;;. B k" portrait of MCKenzi , the epilhet of " Ma· r'" i ironical: •• A hman about 45 Years f Ag [in 1832, thus about sixty when Kane met him in 1848] ... Tolly well Educared and has an imposing Manner and address but a trifling useless superficial feUow who can Drink. & pilfer and rarely speaks the truth. Was a Lieu~ [not a Major] in the Army but [was] Sent to Coventry' and liged to Sell out having hewn the 'White feather'. A blustering Cowardly poltroon who . retained in the Service through mere charity" (221 . MCKenzie was tationed at Rar Portage in 1848. When Kme just missed catching the next brigade there, perhaps M[ajor] McKinsey [Mc Kenzie J continued past his post to help him .ca!Ch up. The Major tetired to the Red River SeaJemenl in I SO. The Mr. M~ Kinzey whom Kane met at Fort William in ay, 1846 could have been either James MCKenzie, a son of the Major. who was a postmaster stationed in the Rainy River district at the time, or Hector MCKenzie, who w stationed at Fort William until 1845. but whose cmJers list him aI post on the Ottawa River the next year, perhaps the oIde were tponed or did oot reach this MCKenzie in time for him to carry them out W1til the next season. TIle Mr. McKinzey whose arrival Kane was awaiting at Boat Encampment in October, 1847, tm not been further identified. Given the Major's duties at Rar Portage and his n sin the Rainy River district, it seems very doubtfulthal either would have been rraveling west across the Rocky Mountains in thaI month. Hector MCKenzie was even farther east, in the Ottawa River district. Yet, no other MCKenzie/MacKenrie W1dcr c0ntract to the JiBe in 1841 was stationed in any of the western districts or in the 'Saskatchewan. M£ Kimey/McKimey, Mrs. and dugbter These are 'the relatives of Major MCKenzie whom Kane met at Slave Falls, Winnipeg River, August 9- 10, 1848, and by whom he \Va Guide
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Paul Kane. CLACKAMAINDIANS, WILl.AM
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Paul Kane. FALLS ON THE UPPER PELOU
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PAUL KANE. c. 1859. Photograph. Col
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Paul Kane. ENCAMPMENT, WINNIPEG RIV
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still smoking after having erupted
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Paul Kane. PIN PORTAGE. May, 1846.
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miskitas and black flies verrey bad
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Page 67 and 68: Guide to People and Places in Kane'
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