Fort Chipewyan was our next stop. We had travelled 300 miles by Canoe and 200 miles with dogs and, although still perfectly fit, had earned a short rest. Chipewyan is a lovely place, situated on the shores of Lake Athabasca. One of the oldest, if not the oldest, Trading Posts in the North West, it is still a very important place. The surrounding Country abounds in Fur bearing animals and the Lake is full of fish. In the Fall of the year, geese and Duck are plentiful. One hundred miles East, at the other end of the Lake, Caribou, that
