Report on the Exploration of the Country Between Lake Superior and the Red River Settlement

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Author: Simon James "S J" Dawson (1818-1902) Year: 1859 Publisher: John Lovell Place: Toronto Description: [1-3]+4-45 pages with charts and three folding maps. Folio (13 4" x 10") bound in half leather over original publisher's boards with label to cover. Published in 1859 as Appendix 4 to the Seventeenth Volume of the Journals of The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. It had previously been published by Dawson in 1858. (Sabin 18958) Includes a letter by Bishop Tache (the bishop of St. Boniface) on the Red River settlement and the 'half-breeds' in the settlement. The maps Route by Road Navigation for Connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans' is colored, two very long folding maps; one showing the 'Profile of Route by the Grand Portage and Pigeon River from Lake Superior to Rainy Lake', and the other being a 'Plan Shewing the Region Explored by S. J. Dawson and his party between Fort William and the great Saskatchewan River'. The seeds for the idea of what became the Dawson Route connecting East to West were planted by the 1850s as the gaze of politicians and business people in the East turned West for its riches beyond the fur trade which was already on the decline. They sent several exploring expeditions to the region between Lake Superior and Red River in this period, such as the Palliser (1857) and Hind Dawson Expeditions (1858-59) to ascertain both what those riches were and how they could be accessed with the development of infrastructure. Their idea had l

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