in negotiating a peace between the Inuit and their enemies, the Chipewyans. Norton’s interest in the fabled northern copper mine, which had long intrigued the company’s officers at Churchill, was

favour of his junior colleague Thomas Horace McGuire. That summer, although he was 76 years old, Richardson travelled from Edmonton to Fort Chipewyan (Alta) on Lake Athabasca as part of the commission

. Stuart was sent to Fort Chipewyan (Alta), and subsequently served at various posts in the Athabasca department. In 1805 he was assistant to Simon Fraser

, Robertson commented on the influence Todd had exerted over the Chipewyans in his capacity as surgeon; his successful treatment of an outbreak of whooping cough gained a certain advantage for the HBC over the

continued diocesan synods on a regular basis (every three to four years) and conducted frequent visitation of the various missions, from Fort Dunvegan (Dunvegan) in the west to Fort Chipewyan in the north to

beyond Île-à-la-Crosse as the NWC diverted Indian provisioners from Clarke’s path. In October he established Fort Wedderburn on an island in Lake Athabasca, across from the NWC’s Fort Chipewyan (Alta). He

Sturgeon Lake in the Nipigon department, and then on to the Athabasca department – Harmon arrived at Fort Chipewyan (Alta) on 7 Sept. 1808. They later moved to Fort Dunvegan, in the Peace

post because the partners considered it unprofitable. He reached Fort Chipewyan (Alta) in March 1789, and set off again at the beginning of June with Alexander

profits, was akin to slavery. Alexander dissuaded him and the following year Roderick joined his cousin in the Athabasca department. He was sent to establish Fort Chipewyan (Alta) at the southwestern end of

. Grandin arrived in St Boniface (Man.) in 1854 and was assigned to La Nativité mission at Fort Chipewyan (Alta) the following year. Like the French Oblates such as Pierre-Henri

, and he died there, aged 71. Fluent in Cree and Chipewyan, Charlebois was a skilful carpenter, constructing chapels, schools, and residences as

and secured some furs from the Assiniboins, he returned to Beaver Lake. In the early spring he went to the Churchill River, where he purchased 12,000 additional beaver skins from Chipewyans probably on

Canada in 1885 and was to have spent a training year at Fort Chipewyan (Alta). Delayed by the North-West rebellion [see Louis Riel

, 1874–79); 1880/81–1918, reports of the Dept. of Indian Affairs, 1880–1917. Robert Carney, “Residential schooling at Fort Chipewyan and Fort Resolution, 1874–1974,” in Western Oblate Studies 2

his first posting to Fort Chipewyan (Alta). He must have been stationed there in 1792, since on 10 Jan. 1793 Alexander Mackenzie asked that MacKay be transferred to Fort Fork (Peace River Landing

, Chipewyan, and Loucheux – and later of the Tchiglit, or Mackenzie Inuit, language. His immediate superior, Bishop Vital-Justin Grandin

William (Thunder Bay, Ont.), Fort Chipewyan, Great Slave Lake, the Mackenzie River, and Fort Franklin on Great Bear Lake, where they wintered. In 1826 Thomas

–79. There he saw a “vast concourse” of Crees and Chipewyans, who went down each year to Prince of Wales’s Fort (Churchill, Man.) via lengthy, difficult routes. According to Alexander

], Beaver, Chipewyan, and other peoples of the Athabasca and Peace River country. In the summer of 1899, after travelling hundreds of miles, Laird and his party (which included James Andrew Joseph

after all official ceremonies were completed. Sweet Grass and the other Cree and Chipewyan chiefs urged him to sign, as they had, but Big Bear, who said he had been sent to speak for all Crees and