Apart from these buildings there would be a few Indian shacks and a good number of Teepees, Indian Lodges.
I will describe the various Posts in detail in another volume.
Our first stop was at Fort Resolution on Great Slave Lake, then Hay River, the Northern Headquarters of the Anglican Church and then, having crossed the Lake, the head of that vast waterway – the McKenzie River – draining an area of one million square acres.
As I have said before – waterways were the main routes for travel during the open season, that is, when ice had all melted, and on this trip we passed every conceivable from of craft, travelling from point to point or just being
