The New North

by Agnes Deans Cameron

the Company's post as I judged would be useful to the

boat party of the

Plover

should they reach this river. The lower

branches of the tree were lopped off, a part of its trunk denuded

of bark, and a broad arrow painted thereon with red paint. In

performing these duties at this place, I could not but recall to

mind the evening of July 3rd, 1826, passed on the very same

spot with Sir John Franklin. We were then full of joyous anticipation."

As we look at these enduring lobsticks, we recollect that Commander Pullen, with two boats from the Plover in 1849, visited the depot and found the precious pemmican. We leave the Mackenzie proper for the present and enter the easternmost channel of its farthest north tributary, the Peel, and follow this considerable stream thirty-three miles to Fort Macpherson, the most northerly post of the Hudson's Bay Company.