[3] The name Simon Fraser appears with credit more than once in Canadian history. It was a Simon Fraser who crossed the Rocky Mountains and first followed for its whole course the Fraser River named after him.
[4] Waverley, Chapter II.
[5] See Appendix A., p. [249]. "Journal of Malcolm Fraser, First Seigneur of Mount Murray, Malbaie."
[6] See copy of the grant in Appendix B., p. [271].
[7] The Lake is no doubt Lake Nairne, the present Grand Lac.
[8] Diary of an English Officer. Proceedings of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 1871-72, p. 61.
[9] See Appendix C., p. [273], for the text of his letter to his sister describing the operations of the winter at Quebec. It is an able review of the campaign.
[10] Proceedings of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 7th Series, 1905, p. 75; "Blockade of Quebec," etc.
[11] The men's names were Peter Ferris, Squir Ferris, Claudius Brittle (Sr.), Claudius Brittle (Jr.), Nathan Smith, Marshal Smith, Justice Sturdevant, John Ward.
[12] The book in which Nairne kept the accounts, with the names of the recipients of the king's bounty, is still at Murray Bay.