The Beaver, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint): A Journal of Progress; July, 1921: A Journal of Progress; July, 1921 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Beaver, Vol. 1: A Journal of Progress; July, 1921

Norway House, Fort Carlton on the Saskatchewan, Fort Garry on the Red and the Stone Fort were successively the meeting places of these ancient councils.

When the season's furs had been gathered and stoutly baled and marked with the cryptic signs which destined them for the far-away auction mart at London - when the shouting, chanting fur brigades of the north went swinging away down roaring watercourses to meet the sailing ships on the great Bay - just at this time the bearded chief tains of the inland districts mobilized their voluminous accounts, dried their goose quill pens and shot away in swift birchbarks to the grand council.

Some of these officers travelled a thousand miles; others, at more south erly stations had not far to go.' But in any case their only carriers were the canoe, the York boat, the plodding oxen or the pony of the plains.

The council was not usually complete until early July. Then the grizzled veterans of the fur service sat down to talk musquash under the chair manship of the Chief Commissioner, and in the space of a fortnight had deliberated upon the commerce and government of a wilderness empire and promulgated the specific orders that would control the victualing, the supply and the trade, the commercial, civic, industrial and religious life of the vast unplotted north country for another year.

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