19. PIONEERS OF THE PACIFIC COAST* By Agnes C. Laut.
20. ADVENTURERS OF THE FAR NORTH By Stephen Leacock.
21. THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS By W. Stewart Wallace.
22. THE RED RIVER COLONY* By Louis Aubrey Wood.
PART VII POLITICAL FREEDOM AND NATIONALITY
24. THE 'FAMILY COMPACT'* By W. Stewart Wallace.
25. THE REBELLION IN LOWER CANADA* By A. D. DeCelles.
26. THE TRIBUNE OF NOVA SCOTIA* By William L. Grant.
27. THE WINNING OF POPULAR GOVERNMENT* By Archibald MacMechan.
28. THE FATHERS OF CONFEDERATION* By Sir Joseph Pope.
29. THE DAY OF SIR JOHN MACDONALD* By Sir Joseph Pope.
30. THE DAY OF SIR WILFRED LAURIER* By Oscar D. Skelton.
32. THE RAILROAD BUILDERS* By Oscar D. Skelton.
Note: The volumes marked with an asterisk are in preparation. The others are published.
[Illustration: PRINCE RUPERT From the painting in the National Portrait Gallery]
THE 'ADVENTURERS OF ENGLAND' ON HUDSON BAY
A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North
Copyright in all Countries subscribing to the Berne Convention
PRINCE RUPERT _Frontispiece_ From the painting in the National Portrait Gallery.
A VIEW OF THE INTERIOR OF OLD FORT 2 GARRY Drawn by H. A. Strong.
TRACK SURVEY OF THE SASKATCHEWAN 4 BETWEEN CEDAR LAKE AND LAKE WINNIPEG
THE PRINCIPAL POSTS OF THE HUDSON'S 6 BAY COMPANY Map by Bartholomew.
THE ROUTES OF HUDSON AND MUNCK 10 Map by Bartholomew.
THE LAST HOURS OF HUDSON 18 From the painting by Collier.
JOHN CHURCHILL, FIRST DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH 42 From the painting in the National Portrait Gallery.
ON THE HAYES RIVER 58 From photograph by R. W. Brock.
ENTRANCE TO THE NELSON AND HAYES 60 RIVERS Map by Bartholomew.
A CAMP IN THE SWAMP COUNTRY 120 From a photograph.
Thirty or more years ago, one who stood at the foot of Main Street, Winnipeg, in front of the stone gate leading to the inner court of Fort Garry, and looked up across the river flats, would have seen a procession as picturesque as ever graced the streets of old Quebec--the dog brigades of the Hudson's Bay Company coming in from the winter's hunt.
Against the rolling snowdrifts appeared a line, at first grotesquely dwarfed under the mock suns of the eastern sky veiled in a soft frost fog. Then a husky-dog in bells and harness bounced up over the drifts, followed by another and yet another--eight or ten dogs to each long, low toboggan that slid along loaded and heaped with peltry. Beside each sleigh emerged out of the haze the form of the driver--a swarthy fellow, on snow-shoes, with hair bound back by a red scarf, and corduroy trousers belted in by another red scarf, and fur gauntlets to his elbows--flourishing his whip and yelling, in a high, snarling falsetto, 'marche! marche!'--the rallying-cry of the French wood-runner since first he set out from Quebec in the sixteen-hundreds to thread his way westward through the wilds of the continent.