[5] The men employed in mere rafting and barge work in contradistinction to the trappers and voyageurs.
[6] This was probably the real motive of the Hudson's Bay Company sending Hearne to explore the Coppermine in 1769-'71. Hearne, unfortunately, has never reaped the glory for this, owing to his too-ready surrender of Prince of Wales Fort to the French in La Perouse's campaign of 1782.
[7] To the mouth of the MacKenzie River in 1789, across the Rockies in 1793, for which feats he was knighted.
[8] Of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
[9] Either the Nor' Westers or the Mackinaws, for the H. B. C. were not yet so far south.
[10] In it were the two original partners, Clark, the Chouteaus of Missouri fame, Andrew Henry, the first trader to cross the northern continental divide, and others of whom Chittenden gives full particulars.
[11] This on the testimony of a North-West partner, Alexander Henry, a copy of whose diary is in the Parliamentary Library, Ottawa. Both Coues and Chittenden, the American historians, note the corroborative testimony of Henry's journal.
[12] Henceforth known as the South-West Company, in distinction to the North-West.
[13] The modern Winnipeg.
[14] MacKay, MacDougall, and the two Stuarts.