Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report on a Part of the North West Territories of Canada Drained by the Winisk and Upper Attawapiskat Rivers; Report on a Traverse Through the Southern Part of the North West Territories From Lac Seul to Cat Lake in 1902
Mr. G. Taylor, of the Hudson's Bay Company's service, seems to have visited the river in 1808, and to have supplied the topographical details that appear on the Arrowsmith map.
Dr. Robert Bell, in 1886, descended the Attawapiskat river from the lake, which he named Lansdowne, to the sea, and published an account of the exploration in the Annual Report of the Geological Survey for that year.1 The Fawn branch of the Severn river was explored by Dr. A. P. Low in 18862 and the Ekwan and Trout rivers by Mr. D. B. Dowling and Mr. W. H. Boyd in No description of the Winisk has been published, though, without doubt, employes of the Hudson's Bay Company have traversed it, as, in the early part of the last century, posts of the Company were established at three points near the head of the river. The missionary priests from Albany, too, have descended the river, holding missions at the more important Indian centres.
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.
