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252 Notes to Pages 35, 204-206smooth in its course - and diversified by several islands solow that the trees on them appear to be growing out of thewater - a little farther on is a fall of 15 feet over smoothrocks - which dashes against a number of high stones at thebottom and throws the spray to a considerable height whilstthe high and wooded hills on each side form a romanticfinish to the picture - but the spectators [sic] attention ismostly caught by the striking contrast between the calmnessof the upper and the turbulency of the lower part of the fall.(67)our long journey to AklavikIn 1930, Kitto estimated the distance of the journey by waterfrom Fort Smith to Aklavik at 1,297 mi (North West 57) or 2,088km. The intermediate distances by water are as follows:Fort Smith to Fort Resolution 203 mi or 327 kmFort Resolution to Hay River75 mi or 121 kmHay River to Providence78 mi or 126 kmFort Providence to Fort Simpson 156 mi or 251 kmFort Simpson to Wrigley152 mi or 245 kmWrigley to Fort Norman150 mi or 241 kmFort Norman to Fort Good Hope 171 mi or 275 kmFort Good Hope to Arctic Red River 214 mi or 344 kmArctic Red River to Fort McPherson,Peel River55 mi or 86kmArctic Red River to Aklavik98 mi or 158 kmField Note for Mond'D' 7 JuneMr Fletcher's talk interestingDorrien Smith's field note for this date mentions that RCMPInspector Fletcher had been to the Isles of Scilly. GeorgeFrederick Fletcher (Fumoleau 125) supported District AgentJohn N .A. McDougal's call for the creation of game preservesfor the Dene of the North (Fumoleau 245,249). Generally,he was not hopeful about the welfare of the Dene in a Northwitnessing an influx of E uro - Canadians during the 192 Os.Fie/dNotefor Wednesd~ 9JuneMr McDougall adtninistrator for Dept. of InteriorThis wasJohn N.A. McDougal, district agent and head ofgovernment staff for the NWT and Yukon Branch of thefederal Department of the Interior at Fort Smith (On the Banks42; Zaslow 191). His responsibilities included paying annualtreaty annuities to Dene and Metis. It was McDougal who, in1922, conceived the idea of establishing game preserves, notonly to stave off the extermination of whole species, but also tomake good on the promises contained in Treaties 8 and II, thatDene would have the exclusive right to hunt and trap over theentire area of the Treaties, a right threatened by the increasingpresence of white trappers in the near North (Fumoleau 209,245)·Field Notefor Frid~ 11 JuneWe visited the 2 schooners alongside 10 tons each + saw MrCarel who is taking thetn down to the ArcticThis is likely A.A. Carroll, a sometime post manager for theHBC during the 1920s, who was born in Waco, Texas in 1876(" Carroll"). Philip Godsell identined the same man as the postmanager at Herschel Island in 1923 (Arctic 282); however, theindex to his book lists this man as H.B, not A.A., Carroll(322). Explorer Knud Rasmussen remembered his expeditionmembers being "excellently nursed" by Carroll in April 1921-(Rasmussen spells his name "Caroll" and identines him as the"local manager" of the HBC at Herschel Island) (Ostermann54). Vyvyan's note, in the material following the last datedentry of her neld notes, recalls that Carroll's trip up the RatRiver occurred "in 1913 in II days in scow with I ton stuff: 5people" (227).Field Note for Soturd~ 12JuneMr. Moran with his Movie KodakJohn F. Moran, who boarded the train with the women inEdmonton and is nrst mentioned in the neld note for 6June,was chief inspector for the NWT and Yukon Branch of theDepartment of the Interior. His tour of inspection in 1926kept him on the same Mackenzie River itinerary as Vyvyan andDorrien Smith. His interest in photography resulted in arepresentative visual record of the North in the 19205, fortunatelypreserved in the National Archives of Canada. His andhis branch's negative view of native people often clashed withthe views of Indian agents and the Department ofIndianAffairs (Fumoleau 268).Jean Godsell remembered him as "adapper, handsome Frenchman who was destined to becomeone of our staunchest, most devoted lifelong friends and anoutstanding authority on the Arctic and the North" (99).