Book/Printed Material Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North America to the frozen and Pacific oceans, in the years 1789 and 1793. With a preliminary account of the rise, progress, and present state of the fur trade of that country.
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- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 7 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … VOYAGES FROM MONTREAL THROUGH THE Continent of North America ^^c.
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 9 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … VOYAGES FROM MONTREAL, OJV THE RIVER ST. LAUREJ^CE, THROUGH THE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA, TO THE FROZEN AND PACIFIC OCEANS; IN THE YEARS 1789 AND 1793. IVIfH A PRELIMINART ACCOUNT OF THE…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 10 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … f /OCpO i- I t wpy. n 5 !i U
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 11 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … TO HIS MOST SACRED MAJESTY GEORGE THE THIRD, THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED, BY HIS MAJESTY* S MOST FAITHFUL SUBJECT, AND DEVOTED SERVANT, ALEXANDER MACKENZIE.
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 12 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North …
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 13 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … PREFACE. On presenting this Volume to my Country, it is not necessary to enter into a particular account of those voyages whose journals form the principal part of it, as they will…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 14 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … ii PREFACE. in vhich I was engaged since the voyages h^ve been completed and when, at length, the opportunity arrived, the apprehension of presenting myself to the Public in the charac- ter…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 15 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … PREFACE. iii the wishes of my particular friends andcWii- mercial associates, that I should proceed the pursuit of it, contributed to quicken the^ execution of this favourite project of my own ambition:…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 16 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … iv PREFACE. thtough the continent of North America, between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which is proved by my second journal. Nor do I hesitate to declare my decided opinion, that very…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 17 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … PREFACE. V introduce to the acquaintance of my readers. The beaver and the buffalo, the moose- deer and the elk, which are the principal animals to be found in these countries, are…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 18 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … vi PREFACE. subdue. To day, I had to assuage the ris- ing discontents, and on the morrow, to cheer the fainting spirits of the people who accom- panied me. The toil of…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 19 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … PREFACP:. vii be found to excite an interest, and conciliate regard, in the minds of those who peruse it. The general map which illustrates this volume, is reduced by Mr. Arrowsmith from…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 20 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … vlii PREFACE. I hope, to be on those subjects, which, from the habits and experience of my Ufe, will jus- tify an unreserved communication of my opi- nions. I am not a…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 21 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … A GENERAL HISTORY iXF THE FUR TRADE FROM CANADA TO THE NORTH-WEST- 1 HE fur trade, from the earliest settlement of Canada, was considered of the first importance to that colony. The…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 22 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … ii A GENERAL HISTORY to rise into a state of civilization. Such was the event w^ith those vi^ho thus accompanied the na- tives on their hunting and trading excursions; for they became…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 23 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … OF THE FUR TRADE, 8cc. Hi jcct to which those pious men had devoted their lives. They therefore, exerted their influence to procure the suppression of these people, and ac- cordingly, no…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 24 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … iv A GENERAL HISTORY and not traders, though they were Intitled to both those characters and, as for the missionaries, if sufferings and hardships in the prosecution of the great work which…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 25 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … OF THE FUR TRADE, Sec. v it adds so much to their comforts; while it gives them a sense of property, and of lasting posses- sion, instead of the uncertain hopes of…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 26 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … vi A GENERAL HISTORY At an early period of their intercourse with the savages, a custom was introduced of a very ex- cellent tendency, but is now unfortunately dis- continued, of not…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 27 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … OF THE FUR TRADE, Sec. \n Some of the Canadians who had lived long with them, and were become attached to a savage life, accompanied them thither annually, till mercan- tile adventurers…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 28 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … viii A GENERAL HISTORY Eastward of the Grande Portage, where the French had a principal establishment, and was the line of their communication with the interior country. It was once destroyed by…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 29 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … OF THE FUR TRADE, c. ix on the bank of the Saskatchiwme fiver, In latitude nearly 43 f. North, and longitude 103 West he found the good fortune, as he followed, in…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 30 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … X A GENERAL HISTORY men, who were inclined to follow their example so that w^ith drinking, carousing, and quarrelling with the Indians along their route, and among themselves, they seldom reached their…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 31 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … OF THE FUR TRADE, Sec. xi Thus was the trade carried on for several years, and consequently becoming worse and worse, so that the partners, who met them at the Grande Portage,…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 32 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … xii A GENERAL HISTORY The success of this gentleman induced others to follow his example, and in the spring of the year 1778, some of the traders on the Saska-chiwine river, finding…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 33 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … OF THE FUR TRADE, c. xiii sufficient for his homeward voyage. Such of the furs as he could not embark, he secured in one of his winter huts, and they were found…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 34 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … xlv A GENERAL HISTORY power, as the fire consumes the dry grass of the field. The fatal infection spread around with a baneful rapidity which no flight could escape, and with a…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 35 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … OF THE FUR TRADE, c. xv it was generally supposed to be from the Missi- souri, by a war party. The consequence of this melancholy event to the traders must be self-evident…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 36 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … xvi A GENERAL HISTORY the clerk, were tried for this murder at Montreal, and acquitted nevertheless, their innocence was not so apparent as to extinguish the original sus- picion. The other circumstance…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 37 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … OF THE FUR TRADE, Sec. xvii the country in the year 1782-3, found the inhabi- tants in some sort of tranquillity, and more numerous than they had reason to expect, so that…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 38 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … xviii A GENERAL HISTORY reason to expect that their past and future labours would be recompensed, forgot all their former animosities, and engaged with the utmost spirit and activity, to forward the…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 39 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … OF THE FUR TRADE, Sec xix Struggle ever known in that part of the world, and suffering every oppression which a jealous and rival spirit could instigate; after the murder of one…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802
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Image 40 of Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North … XX A GENERAL HISTORY them, and supply the cash that might be wanting for the outfits, for which they received, indepen- dent of the profit on their shares, a commission on the…
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mackenzie, Alexander
- Date: 1802