A Northern Experience: The Journals of Norman Robinson
Coming North Page 46

a house showed us Conibear's store, that haven of rest and hospitality for hundreds of northern Travellers.

W. Conibear, a mechanic by trade, was sent north to install engines in a boat for the Catholic Mission, took a liking to the Country and never went back.

The Hudson's Bay Store, in those days, was not nearly as palatial as it is today, but it coped with the trade requirements and its Factor, W. Cunningham was very kind to us, but, after a short visit, we moved

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