Chapter XXVII: Section 15: , 175

Self-Government to Colonies, its concession the removal of
difficulty, 422.

Selkirk, 176.

Selkirk Range, front view of, 249;
ascent, 260;
summit, 266.

Selkirk, Lord, 187;
early attempt at emigration, 188;
joined Hudson Bay Co., 188;
opposed by Northwest Co., 189;
Red River settlement, 189;
hurries to Red River, 194;
proceeds to the Kaministiquia, 196;
his character, 197;
death, 198.

Semple, Governor, 194.

Seven Oaks, affair 17th June, 194.

Seymour, Governor, 329, 345.

Shaginappy, 225, _n_.

Shirley, Governor, 112.

Ship Building, 2.

Shuswap Indians, 272, 295.

Shuswap Lake, arrive at, 303.

Sicamouse Narrows, 309.

Simms, 372.

Sinclair, Mrs., 327.

Sioux, their conduct in Canada, 387.

Skunk Cabbage, 262, 253.

Slave River, 326.

Smith, Mr. Marcus, 329.

Snake River, 363.

Snow Storm, 177.

Soil on the Plains, 209.

Soil, Moosejaw to Qu’Appelle, 213.

Somerville, Mary, 28.

South Thompson River, 309.

Spain, seizes country of Nootka Sound, 341.

Spellman’s Camp, 233.

Spokane Falls, 365.

Spurgeon’s Tabernacle, 45.

Spuzzem, 320.

Stage coach, the old, 89.

Standard Time--Meeting of railway managers to determine, 375;
proceedings taken by Congress United States, 378;
date when came in operation, 379.

Start for the Mountains, 202.

Stephen, Mr. Geo., President C. P. R., telegram from, 42.

St. Croix, fort of, 104.

St. John, city of, its fires, 17.

St. Mary’s Bay, N. S., 103.

St. Lawrence River, dredging near Quebec advantageous, 136.

St. Paul, 374.

St. Swithin’s day, 79, _n_.

Stony Indian’s, 242, _n_.

Subercase, Governor, 107.

Suez Canal, its exposed state, 433.

Summit Creek, 235.

Sunday in the Mountains, 230, 255.

Superior, Lake, 161;
north shore connection indispensible, 408;
progress of work, 395.

Supplies to the Columbia, 223.

Swift Current, 211.

Syndicate Peak, 271.

Taché, Archbishop, 205.

Tacoma, 357.

Tattnall, Commodore, 438.

Telegram, ocean, its non-receipt, 42;
receipt of recalls civilization, 313.

Telegraph extension over Chinese seas, 432.

Telephone, 320.

Thames at Monkey Island, 78.

Three Rivers, 130.

Three Valley Lake, 302.

Thunder Bay, 164.

Thunder storm, 177.

Toronto, 146.

Townsend, Rev. Mr., 19.

Trail through Kicking-Horse, 239;
on the side of precipice, 258.

Travel, difference of present mode and that of last century, 396.

Trent River, 82.

Truro, N. S., Prince of Wales’ visit to, 15.

Tseng, Marchioness, 74.

Tupper, Sir Charles, 22, 65.

Umatilla, 363.

Union of the several component elements of the British Empire a
necessity, 430.

Union Pacific Railway Co., 413.

United Kingdom, 34.

United States hotel life, 49.

Urquhart, Captain, navigates by sound, 333.

Utrecht, treaty of, 184.

Vancouver Island, 6.

Victor Lake, 301.

Victoria, 330.

Verden, 207.

Voyage across Atlantic, 98.

Wait a bit, 259.

Wales, Prince of, 75.

Wallace, Mr., 79.

Wallula junction, 363.

Warren, Admiral, 112.

Watershed Gulf of Mexico and Hudson’s Bay, 373.

Watteville regiment, 195.

West of England, its flora, 81.

Westminster, treaty of, 106.

Whist often a penalty, 25.

White fish, 159.

Wild fruit on Selkirks, 269, 280.

Wilderness, entry into, 277.

Williamette River, 359.

Wilmot, Mr., 325.

Wilson, George, 230.

Windsor, visit near, 75;
forest, 76.

Winnipeg station, 177.

Winnipeg, 179;
its low level, 198;
unprofitable land, 204.

Wolseley, Lord, his views of Suez Canal, 433.

Wright, Mr. Charles, 217.

Wright, Mr. S. B., 308.

Wright, Mrs., 308.

Yale, 321.

Yellow Head Pass, its advantages, 409.

Yellowstone River, 363;
park, 368.

Young, Hon. John, 132.

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NOTE.

The ceremony of naming Collingwood, which has been described at page 151 as having taken place in 1851, should have been referred to the 14th January, 1853. It was at this date that the meeting took place, when the locality in question, protected from the north by a few islands near the shore, then known as the “Hen and Chickens,” was formally named Collingwood by the Sheriff of the County of Simcoe.

FOOTNOTES

[A] A stone inscription, dated 1609, was found in an old wall in the Fort at Port Royal, now Annapolis, by the late Judge Halliburton, author of “Sam Slick.” Some fifteen years ago it was in the possession of his son, Mr. R. G. Halliburton, then in Halifax. That gentleman gave it as a loan to the writer to be placed in the Museum of the Canadian Institute. Thus the oldest stone inscription probably in America may be found in Toronto.

[B] The readers of Humphrey Clinker may recollect the astonishment of the Duke of Newcastle, the foolish Minister of George II., on hearing that Cape Breton was an island. The story as recorded is worth reproduction: “They [the Ministers] are so ignorant they scarce know a crab from a cauliflower, and then they are such dunces that there is no making them comprehend the plainest proposition. In the beginning of the war this poor, half-witted creature told me, in great fright, that thirty thousand French had marched from Acadia to Cape Breton. ‘Where did they find transports?’ said I. ‘Transports!’ cried he; ‘I tell you they marched by land.’ ‘By land to the Island of Cape Breton?’ ‘What! is Cape Breton an island?’ ‘Certainly.’ ‘Ha! are you sure of that?’ When I pointed it out in the map he examined it earnestly with his spectacles; then, taking me in his arms, ‘My dear C----!’ cried he, ‘you always bring us good news. Egad! I’ll go directly and tell the King that Cape Breton is an island.’”

[C] This matter is entered into at length in the writer’s published history of the Intercolonial Railway, 1876, page 102.

[D] At the same date in Ottawa the snow usually lies to a depth of two or more feet.

[E] “We expect to reach Columbia River, opposite Eagle Pass, on foot from Selkirk summit about 10th September. No trail reported from that point on Columbia River to Shuswap Lake. If there is no trail the supplies must be packed through Eagle Pass. We will depend absolutely upon your agent at Kamloops sending a guide, with supplies, to meet us at Columbia River by 10th September. We leave to-day for the mountains. Good-bye.”

[F] Buffalo rawhide, used for cordage, indeed for nearly every purpose, by Indians and trappers.

[G] Devil’s Club

Fatsia horida--Panax horridus
Echinopanax horridus--
Oplopanax horridus--
Horsfieldia horrida.

[H] Skunk Cabbage

Symplocarpus foetidus
Pothos foetidus
Icttodes foetidus--
Lysichiton Kamtschatcensis.

[I] The latter valley was evidently the one that, judging from its general bearing, would be most likely to afford a pass in the direction wished for. I therefore tried to induce the Indians I had with me by every possible persuasion to accompany me all the way across the Selkirk Range, and make for Wild-Horse Creek. (The Columbia River Indians would, from the first, only engage to go as far as the head waters of the Ille-celle-waet.) All my efforts were, however, unavailing, as they affirmed that if we went on we should be caught in the snow and never get out of the mountains.--_Mr. Moberly to Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works, 18th Dec., 1855._

[J] This meeting was held on October 11th. As a result the Standard Hour system went into force throughout North America on the 18th November following.

[K] Vide Sessional Papers, Province of Canada.

[L] The fisheries, only in their infancy, already employ 60,000 men and boys.

[M] Cabot landed on the coast of Labrador 24th June, 1497. Columbus did not see this continent till the following year. He discovered the West India Islands in 1492-3-4.

Transcriber’s Notes

The original book contained an unusually high frequency of typographical and spelling errors. Missing periods generally have been remedied, but apparently misspelled words have been changed only when correctly-spelled (according to dictionaries when this ebook was produced) versions of those words also occur.

Ambiguous hyphenation has been retained; unbalanced quotation marks have been corrected when the intent was clear, and otherwise have not been remedied.

Page 19: “Rev. Mr. Townend” is spelled “Townsend” in the Index. The latter seems more likely to be correct, so both have been retained.

Page 70: Unmatched closing quotation mark removed after “these sentiments.”

Page 268: “There Al. and I stood;” was printed with the period after “Al”.

Pages 361-362: “balsaltic” should be “basaltic”, but as it was misprinted that way twice, and only printed as “basaltic” once, both spellings have been retained here.

Page 372: “Dacota” was printed that way.

Page 434: The reference to the footnote was missing. Based on the context of the page and the footnote, the reference has been added after the first occurrence of the name “Cabot”.

The Index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references, except for three whose page numbers did not exist: “457” changed to “417”; “458” to “158”; and “613” to “413”.

In the Index, some periods, commas, and semi-colons were changed for consistency, but not enumerated in these notes.

When words in the Index were spelled differently than on the pages they referenced, and this was noticed by the transcribers, the Index entry spellings were changed, except for “Townsend” as noted above.

Page 447: “Potlach” refers to two pages. On page 306, it is spelled “potlatch”; on page 390, it is spelled “pot-laches”.