The Book of the West: The story of western Canada, its birth and early adventures, its youthful combats, its peaceful settlement, its great transformation, and its present waysKennedy, Howard Angus
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The Book of the West: The story of western Canada, its birth and early adventures, its youthful combats, its peaceful settlement, its great transformation, and its present ways
Kennedy, Howard Angus
Northwest, Canadian
Edmonton in 1846, 60;
in 1905, 151, 196.
Empires, British and United States, 156.
Eskimo, 10, 47;
massacred by Indians, 48.
Exploration, Spanish and British, 25;
Norse, 26;
French, 26;
Cartier, Champlain, 26;
La Salle, 27;
Frobisher, Hudson, 28;
Radisson and Groseillers, 30;
Vérendrye, 41;
Kellsey, Hendry, 44;
Hearne, 46;
Mackenzie, 49;
Thompson, 50;
Fraser, 51;
Lewis and Clark, 51;
Franklin, 64;
McClure, 65;
Drake, Cook, 69;
Palliser, Hector, 84;
Amundsen, 66;
Stefansson, 188.
Fisheries, 161, 187.
Fleming, Sir Sandford, 159.
Forest, 15, 161;
fires, 161;
air patrol, 166.
Fort Carlton, 61.
Fort Chipewyan, 49.
Fort de la Corne, 45.
Fort Cumberland, 48.
Fort Pitt, 62.
Fort Rouge, 42.
Fort Vancouver, 72.
Fossils: giant lizards, 5;
trilobites, 7;
mammoth, 8;
horses, 19.
Fraser River, 49, 51.
Freighting, 141.
French Cession of Canada to British, 27.
Fur trade, 26;
French monopoly, 32;
buffalo skins, 35;
beaver in fashion, 37;
scene at trading post, 39;
“Free Traders,” 41;
the traders’ life, 56;
sea otter, 73, 151;
fur farming, 192;
statistics, 193.
Gardens, 147, 197.
Gas, natural, 170.
Great Slave Lake, discovery, 48.
Hudson’s Bay, 28;
Company formed, 33;
its powers, 37;
French raids and competition, 40, 49;
traders sent up country, 44;
Scottish-Canadian rivals, 45;
North West Company formed, 49;
Companies at war, 52;
the rivals unite, 56;
Company’s rule extended to Pacific, 56;
Simpson’s journeys, 59;
Company and Indians, 85, 91;
Territory enters Dominion, 88;
Company continues, 151, 188.
Hudson Straits navigation, 57.
Indians, origin of, 9;
southward migration, 11;
industry and art, 11, 12, 21, 74;
baking and gardening, 12;
Mexican and Peruvian civilization, 12, 13;
the Six Nations, 13;
lacrosse, 13;
Algonquins, 14;
mound builders, 16;
a night raid, 16;
travoys, 20;
agriculture, 16, 21;
story telling, 22;
dancing, 64, 74;
racing and betting, 63, 73;
slavery, 73;
Flat-heads, 74;
kindness and barbarity, 85.
Indian tribal fighting, 21, 23, 85;
Sioux and Cree, 31;
Saulteaux and Sioux, 61;
Blackfoot and Cree, 63, 87.
Indian treaties, 93;
refugees from United States, 95;
Sitting Bull, 96.
Indians and Métis, 99;
Indians farming, 139.
Kane, Paul: artist’s journey in 1846, 60.
King and president, 136.
Lake and river route to West, 59.
Liquor and Indians, 55.
Mackenzie River, 49, 189, 190.
Manufactures, 167, 168.
Métis, the, 49;
revolts, 89, 98;
a hospitable family, 133.
Migrations of men, 2, 9, 24, 148.
Minerals: coal, 7, 81, 167;
copper, 21, 46;
gold, etc., in B.C., 75, 161, 165;
potters’ clay, 171.
Missionaries: Evans prints in Cree, 86;
peacemaker Lacombe, 87.
Mississippi, 27;
discovery, 31.
Mountains, birth of, 7;
first sight of Rockies, 43;
an Alpine paradise, 165.
Mounted Police and frontier crime, 91;
force organized, 92;
Col. MacLeod’s reign of law, 93;
in the Arctic, 189.
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