Volume 1

214 FROM PEMBINA TO WINNIPEG.
ground ;
the men are weeding, hoeing potatoes, and repairing
canoes ; Indians drinking, ^.th. I sent off a boat
loaded with pemmican for the Forks. 6th. Transplanted
500 cabbages, yth. Indians all decamped on the E. side.
Twenty Indian canoes arrived from Red lake with sugar
and furs. 8th. The Indians who had decamped returned
to drink ; Lambert beat Le Sieur."' Indians fighting
among themselves and with us also—a very troublesome
drinking match. Made up my packs. Traded for 10 kegs
of sugar and some skins and furs. loth. Finished gumming
and repairing the canoes. The summer men came in
with 10 buffalo, which are numerous, near at hand, and very
fat. nth. Sent off six canoes for the Forks.
June ijth. At nine o'clock I embarked on board my
canoe with eight men, leaving M. Langlois in charge of the
fort, with six men. I gave the Indians six kegs of liquor,
and bade them adieu, i^th. At ten o'clock I arrived at the
Forks. Mr. Chaboillez embarked with his brigade. X. Y.
Rocheblave '^ from Fort Dauphin Prairie for pemmican.
Duford drunk. Mr. [E.] Harrison, Delorme [note '^ p. 193],
'^
For Lambert, see note "*, p. 212. The above Le Sieur is probably not the
Toussaint Le Sieur of note", p. 35, who built Fort Alexander in 1792, but
another of the same full name, listed as a clerk of the N. W. Co. on Lower Red
r. in 1804; Henry speaks of this one beyond, Oct., 1804.—Calixte Lesieur
appears as voyageur N. W. Co., Lake Winnipeg, 1804.
" That is, Monsieur Pierre de Rocheblave, then a bourgeois of the X. Y.
Co., who became a personage later on. He was nephew of Philippe de Rocheblave,
who fought on the Monongahela near Fort Duquesne, July 9th, 1755.
He entered the N. W. Co. early, became a partner in the X. Y. Co. in 1801,
and went to superintend the Athabasca Dept. He arrived at McLeod's
fort. Peace r., Oct. 7th, 1803, with Mr. Leith, also of the X. Y. ; their clerks
were Chatellain and Lamotte. Rocheblave signed the Montreal agreement of
Nov. 5th, 1804, byhisattys., and replaced the elder Chaboillez in the Dept.
of the Assiniboine in 1805. He arrived at Fort William, 2 p. m. Sunday,
Aug. 2d, 1812, on the Invincible, and in 1817 was sent there to procure the
arrest of Lord Selkirk. After his retirement he became a member of the
Legislative Assembly of Montreal, and subsequently of the Legislative and
Executive Councils of Lower Canada and Commissioner of Parishes. Mrs.
Rocheblave had been Miss Elmire Bouthiller. Of two daughters, one became
Mrs. Captain Willoughby.