Some Startling Facts Relating to the Canadian Pacific Railway And the North ...
Some Startling Facts Relating to the Canadian Pacific Railway And the North ...
Charles Horetzky
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Fleming's Report, 1880, pages 44, 45, 56) but it is difficult to understand why such an extravagantly equipped party was needed, especially with the whole summer before them. The writer's party of 1872 was but a toy affair compared with the expedition of 1879, which, in addition, was met from Winnipeg by another outfit of no mean proportions. In September, 1872, the writer and his associate, Mr. Macoun, left Digitized by Google > 54 Edmonton with ten horses and two men en route for MacLeod Lake... via the Peace Eiver. Nothing was then known of the country excepting by the Hudson Bay people, but the little expedition made its way, and passed through the Peace River Pass at the most inclement season of the year, reaching MacLeod Lake in November. The whole cost of that examination did nob exceed $1,000, and the results were highly im- portant. Note. — Cost of Horetzki's Expedition from Edmonton to McLeod Lake : — Hire of 10 horses from the Hudson's Bay Company . . $450 " " 2 men, Edmonton to Rocky Mountain Can6n 100 " " 4 Indians and 1 half-caste, Rocky Moun- tain Can6n to McLeod Lake 207 " " Boat, (cash left with Hudson's Bay Company to reimburse owners) 20 Provisions and sundries .
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