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238 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN
of his partners in trade, and with a desire for the well- being of
mankind in general." He died in Scotland on the 12th of March,
1820.
Another great explorer and trader of the Hudson's Bay Company,
the notable Chief Trader Thomas Simpson, likewise calls for
some proper reference herein. He was a native of Dingwall, in
the County of Ross, North Britain, and entered the service of the
Company as secretary to his relative, the resident " emperor-governor,"
Sir George Simpson. He left Fort Garry, Red River, on
December 1, 1836, for Fort Chipewyan, whence he was to set out
in company with the prudent, capable and experienced Chief Factor
Peter Warren Dease ( the builder and provider of Fort Franklin,
on Great Bear Lake, where Sir John Franklin passed the winter
after his return from his second overland expedition to the northern
coast in 1826), in order to complete the exploratory work of that
party west and east of the mouth of the Mackenzie River. All
know how well these officers performed the duties entrusted to
them. A perusal of Simpson's narrative of their explorations
should prove interesting to Canadians. General Sabine, who revised
the same, wrote as follows: " I found the work in a state of such
complete preparation that the alterations which I saw any occasion
to make were very few indeed, and these chiefly of a verbal nature.
It impressed me with an additionally high respect for your brother's
memory, that he should have drawn up the narrative of the expedition
on the spot in such a complete manner that it might quite
well have been printed verbatim.'' On tbe 6th of June, 1840,
Simpson, who had returned to Fort Garry on the preceding 2nd of
February, after an absence of three years and two months, marked
by toils, perils and privations such as have seldom been endured,
set out for England by crossing the prairies to St. Peter's ( St.
Paul and Minneapolis were not in existence then), and thence to
New York. He pursued his journey with much rapidity, left the
main body of buffalo hunters with whom he started, and in company
with four men went on ahead. On a chart which was found
among his other papers after his death his. last recorded day's
march ( June 11) was 47 miles in a direct line. After that date
every circumstance is involved in mystery. He had evidently
turned hack, and ali that can be ascertained with certainty is that
on the afternoon of the 13th or 14th of June he shot two of his
men, and that the other two mounted their horses and rejoined
the large brigade of hunters. A party of them went next morning
to the scene of the shooting where his death took place. " Whether
he shot the two men in self- defense, and was subsequently killed
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| OCR | 238 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN of his partners in trade, and with a desire for the well- being of mankind in general." He died in Scotland on the 12th of March, 1820. Another great explorer and trader of the Hudson's Bay Company, the notable Chief Trader Thomas Simpson, likewise calls for some proper reference herein. He was a native of Dingwall, in the County of Ross, North Britain, and entered the service of the Company as secretary to his relative, the resident " emperor-governor," Sir George Simpson. He left Fort Garry, Red River, on December 1, 1836, for Fort Chipewyan, whence he was to set out in company with the prudent, capable and experienced Chief Factor Peter Warren Dease ( the builder and provider of Fort Franklin, on Great Bear Lake, where Sir John Franklin passed the winter after his return from his second overland expedition to the northern coast in 1826), in order to complete the exploratory work of that party west and east of the mouth of the Mackenzie River. All know how well these officers performed the duties entrusted to them. A perusal of Simpson's narrative of their explorations should prove interesting to Canadians. General Sabine, who revised the same, wrote as follows: " I found the work in a state of such complete preparation that the alterations which I saw any occasion to make were very few indeed, and these chiefly of a verbal nature. It impressed me with an additionally high respect for your brother's memory, that he should have drawn up the narrative of the expedition on the spot in such a complete manner that it might quite well have been printed verbatim.'' On tbe 6th of June, 1840, Simpson, who had returned to Fort Garry on the preceding 2nd of February, after an absence of three years and two months, marked by toils, perils and privations such as have seldom been endured, set out for England by crossing the prairies to St. Peter's ( St. Paul and Minneapolis were not in existence then), and thence to New York. He pursued his journey with much rapidity, left the main body of buffalo hunters with whom he started, and in company with four men went on ahead. On a chart which was found among his other papers after his death his. last recorded day's march ( June 11) was 47 miles in a direct line. After that date every circumstance is involved in mystery. He had evidently turned hack, and ali that can be ascertained with certainty is that on the afternoon of the 13th or 14th of June he shot two of his men, and that the other two mounted their horses and rejoined the large brigade of hunters. A party of them went next morning to the scene of the shooting where his death took place. " Whether he shot the two men in self- defense, and was subsequently killed |
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