Glimpses of the Past in the Red River Settlement
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Excerpt from Glimpses of the Past in the Red River Settlement: From Letters of Mr. John Pritchard, 1805-1836 The following sketch seems to have been written from Nepigon on Lake Superior during the winter of 1805. The writer refers to his having sent a letter on his way back from the western prairies, to his friends in Great Britain, while at the Grand Portage, which was the name given to the waterway between Lake Superior and Rainy Lake. During 1805 Mr. Pritchard had been stationed at a fort at the junction of the Souris river with the Assiniboine. At this point there were three forts: Brandon House built by the Hudsons Bay Company in 1794; Assiniboine House belonging to the North West Company and surveyed by David Thompson, Company surveyor in 1798. A third fort was at this point called the post at Riviere la Souris. This belonged to the new North West Company, commonly called the X. Y. Company, which had split off from the Northwest Company of Montreal in 1796 and continued until the coalition of 1804. Evidently it took a longer time than the year 1805 to amalgamate the two concerns. It was in this year that John Pritchard was at the X.Y. fort at the mouth of the Souris. He and his companion started for La Bosse or called by Harmon, "Montague a la basse." This fort was fifty miles west of the mouth of the Souris, at a point north of Oak Lake. It gets its name from a hill (French la boose,) evidently one of the sand hills overlooking the Assiniboine between the C. P. R. Stations of Virden and Oak Lake. On Hind´s map of 1857, it is plainly marked "Boss Hill." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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