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Title: Through the Mackenzie Basin : a narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Mair, Charles, 1838-1927 MacFarlane, Roderick Ross, 1833-
Subjects: Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition (1899) Mammals Indians of North America Birds
Publisher: Toronto : W. Briggs

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Fort Smith .... Bull moose killed in the Athabasca below Fort McMurray Half-breed Commission boat leaving Fort McMurray Bank of the Athabasca above Fort McMurray. Tracking up an Athabasca rapid A rest near Grand Rapids In the Grand Rapids of the Athabasca . View on the Athabasca near the Landing Grotesque alto-rilievos on an Athabascan cut-bank Tracking up the Grand Rapids of the Athabasca R.N.W.M.P. post at Grand Rapids Typical half-breed fireplace and chimney A lady Klondiker ..... Canoeing on the Pelican River Ascending the Pelican River . Half-breed family drying whitefish at Wahpooskow Lake An Indian centenarian, Marie Rose Gladu, and the Author Roderick MacFarlane .... Fort Anderson The Ramparts, Mackenzie River . The Queens Arctic Medal Fort McPherson, Peel River Fort Chipewyan, Athabaska Lake Fort Resolution, Great Slave Lake Fort Good Hope ^fpartmfnt ^ lAP showing the Territory ceded under treaty )\lo.8. and the Indian tribes therein
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INTRODUCTION The important events of A.D. 1857, and the negotiations which led to the Transfer of the Hudsons Bay Territories—Former Treaties and the Treaty Commission of 1899. The terms upon which Canada obtained her great possessions in the West are generally known, and much has been written regarding the tentative steps by which, after long years of waiting, she acquired them. The distinctively prairie, or southern, portion of the country and its outliers, constituting Prince Ruperts Land, had been claimed by the Hudsons Bay Company since May, 1670, as an absolute freehold. This and the j^orth-West Territories, in which,under terminable lease from the Crown, the Company exercised, as in British Columbia, exclusive rights to trade only,were, as the reader loiows, transferred to Canada by Imperial sanction at the same time. It is not the authors intention,therefore, to cumber his pages with trite or irrelevant matter;yet certain transactions which preceded this primordial and greatest

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