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Updated: May 31, 2025
At break of day we launched the canoe again and pursued our course for the mouth of the Winnipeg River. The lake which yesterday was all sunshine, to-day looked black and overcast thunder-clouds hung angrily around the horizon, and it seemed as though Winnipeg was anxious to give a sample of her rough ways before she had done with us.
As the boys' dexterity in the use of the canoes increased, they became more adventurous in their excursions, and one day they struck out, of course in company with experienced Indians, from the Old Fort and went as far as to the mouth of the great Saskatchewan River. The long trip across the north-west end of Lake Winnipeg was most exhilarating.
WINNIPEG: $5,000 monthly to Patriotic Fund REGINA: $1,000 for comfort of the city's soldiers; $62,500 To Belgian Relief Fund. HAMILTON: $20,000 Patriotic Fund; $5,000 for local relief. BERLIN: $10,000 Patriotic Fund. ST. JOHNS, N.B. $10,000 Patriotic Fund; $2,000 Belgian Fund
"Once I walked into Winnipeg without a dollar, and was fortunate in hiring myself to add up figures in a big flour-mill. The people for whom I worked seemed quite pleased with the way I did it, and paid me reasonably. I lived in a big boarding-house like a rabbit-warren. Through the thin partitions I could hear the people all about me stirring in their sleep at night.
"Ah!" said Dempsey, staring at the carpet. "And she's not married? You're sure she's not married?" "Married?" said all the others, looking at him in disapproving astonishment. "Well, if she ain't, I saw her sister or her double twice about two-and-a-half year ago at a place thirty miles from Winnipeg. I could ha' sworn I'd seen her before!"
I am in deepest sympathy, Sincerely yours, MRS. C. F. BENNETT. I shall never forget the words of sympathy that are expressed in this epistle, or the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. McCaul and the people of Winnipeg generally. On our way from Winnipeg to Parkdale we received every attention and assistance, which I can assure the reader went a long way in making sorrow lighter and more able to bear.
After what I'd heard, I wired a Winnipeg agent and he has promised to send me on what looks like more than I can use. Now I'll be glad to let you have as much as you want for your lightest land." George felt grateful. He did not think that this methodical man had made any careless mistake over his order; but he hesitated. "Thanks," he said. "Still, it doesn't get over the main difficulty."
To the Athabaska warehouses at Fort Chipewyan came the furs of Mackenzie river and the Arctic; to Fort Edmonton came the furs of the Athabaska and of the Rockies; to Fort Pitt came the peltry of the Barren Lands; and all passed down the broad highway of the Saskatchewan to Lake Winnipeg, whence they were sent out to York Factory on Hudson Bay, there to be loaded on ships and taken to the Company's warehouses in London.
In the West we're pretty keen business men, and I've put across some smart deals at the Winnipeg Board of Trade, but I'll admit Cartwright would beat me every time. Where do you mean to locate?" Lister said he was going to the neighborhood of a small country town in the North of England, and was puzzled by Vernon's start. "That fixes it! The thing's strangely lucky.
The purpose was to intercept the trade of the Indians with the English on Hudson Bay. For over half a century the Indians of this region had taken their furs down the rivers leading from Lake Winnipeg to the trading-posts of the Hudson's Bay Company on the shores of the Bay, but now the French intended to offer them a market nearer home and divert to themselves this profitable trade.
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