BY
BECKLES WILLSON

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
LORD STRATHCONA AND MOUNT ROYAL
Present Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company

WITH
ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY ARTHUR HEMING
AND
MAPS, PLANS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
1900

Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, by The Copp, Clark Company, Limited, Toronto, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture.

TO
The Right Honourable
SIR WILFRID LAURIER, G.C.M.G.,
TO WHOSE GENEROUS SUGGESTION AND CONTINUED
ENCOURAGEMENT IS SO LARGELY DUE THE
COMPILATION OF THESE ANNALS.

PREFACE.