Back, Admiral Sir George, with Franklin, 95, 100, 101, 104; rescues Franklin, 107; explores Backs river, 111.
Baffin, William, and the North-West Passage, 32.
Baffin Island, Frobisher's experiences on, 12-14.
Belcher, Captain Sir Edward, in the search for the Franklin expedition, 124; abandons his ships, 125; court-martial on, 126.
Bellot, Lieut, of the French navy, sacrifices his life in the search for Franklin, 124, 125.
Buchan, Captain, and expedition to the North Pole, 93.
Cabot, Sebastian, and the North-West Passage, 5, 6.
Canada, the Far North of, a description, 1-2, 26-7; resources of, 37-8, 87; barren grounds, 40-1, 46, 55-7; a geographical problem in, 71.
Chawchmahaw, an Indian chief, treachery of, 40-2.
Company of the North, hostility to Hudson's Bay Company, 36.
Cook, Captain, and the Arctic seas, 70.
Copper in the Far North, 37; attempts to find, and disastrous fate of the expedition, 38; found by Hearne, 63.
Coppermine river, attempts to reach, 38, 39; Hearne at, 58; Franklin at, 96, 100.
Crozier, Captain, with Franklin, 116; fate of, 129, 132-4.
Cumberland House, Franklin at, 95.
Davis, John, his voyages in search of the North-West Passage, 23-31.
Dubawnt Lake, description of, 46.
Elizabeth, Queen, voyages under, 7; honours Frobisher, 11.
English Chief, an Indian with Mackenzie, 75, 84.
'Erebus' and 'Terror' in Franklin's ill-fated expedition, 112, 116; last seen, 117; last news of and fate, 131, 132-4.
Eskimos, conflicts with explorers, 13-14, 16; trade with, 25, 28; Davis on, 28-30; relations with the Indians, 56-7; attacked and massacred, 58-61, 62; and fate of the Franklin expedition, 127-8.
Fitzjames, Captain James, with the Franklin expedition, 116, 133.
Fort Chipewyan erected, 74, 78; Franklin at, 95.
Fort Churchill, trade at, 38.
Fort Enterprise, Franklin winters in, 96; a tragic episode, 103-7.
Fort Prince of Wales, expeditions from, 40, 42, 51, 68.
Fort Providence, Franklin at, 95.
Fox, Luke, and the North-West Passage, 32; and Hudson Bay, 34.
'Fram,' the, and Nansen's theory, 141-3.
Franklin, Sir John, early training, 91; first Arctic voyage, 93-4; second, 94; inland journeys, 64, 95-6; a winter at Port Enterprise, 97-8; traces Arctic coast in canoe, 98; tragic journey back by land to Fort Enterprise, 99-104; terrible experiences, 104-7; third expedition, 109-110; last and fatal expedition, 89, 113-17; fate of, 127-9.
Franklin, Lady, her devotion, 90; sends in search of Franklin expedition, 121, 124, 131.
Franklin expedition, the, apprehension in Britain concerning, 118-19; search for, 121-6; news of, 122-3, 127-8, 129-30; tragic records of, 131-5.
Frobisher, Sir Martin, voyages in search of the North-West Passage, 10-14, 15-23.
Fur trade, effect of on Arctic exploration, 35.
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, and the North-West Passage, 8-10.
Gold, search for in Arctic regions, 14, 17, 18, 20.
Great Bear river, Mackenzie on, 80, 87.
Great Slave Lake, description of, 66, 77.
Greeley, Lieut., his attempt to reach the North Pole, 139.
Greenland, or Frisland, 7, 11; Land of Desolation, 23,
Hearne, Samuel, joins the Hudson's Bay Company, 39; expeditions to Coppermine river, 40-1, 42-51, 51-63, 65-8; and Admiral La Pérouse, 68.
Hepburn, a sailor with Franklin, 95, 101, 102, 103.
Hood, Lieut., with Franklin, 95, 100, 101; his tragic death, 102.
Hudson, Henry, and the North-West Passage, 31-2.
Hudson Bay explored, 34; convenience of for fur trade, 35; conflicts between French and English in, 36.
Hudson's Bay Company founded, 35; objects of, 36; search for copper, 37-8; development, 72.
Indians, their treachery, 41, 45; troubles with, 47, 48; designs against Eskimos, 56-7, 58-61; shyness of, 79; terror of the Far North, 80.
Indian women, an Indian's estimate of, 53.
Kelsey, Henry, inland journey of, 37.
Leroux, descends Great Slave river, 75; with Mackenzie, 78, 88.
M'Clintock, Captain, finds last records of the Franklin expedition, 131-5.
M'Clure, Captain, first to make the North-West Passage, 124, 125-6.
Mackenzie, Alexander, joins North-West Company, 73; journey to the Arctic ocean by the Mackenzie river, 75-88.
Marble Island, a grim tale of shipwreck at, 38.
Markham, Captain, and the North Pole, 139.
Matonabbee, an Indian chief, succours Hearne, 49; character of, 51; assists Hearne to reach Coppermine river, 53-4, 56; his opinion of women, 53.
Meta Incognita, 14, 16; formal landing of Frobisher on, 17; a fort erected on, 21.
Michel, an Indian with Franklin, feeds on his companions and murders Lieut. Hood, 102-3.
Muscovy Company, the, and passage to the East by the White Sea, 6; oppose Frobisher, 10.
Nansen, Dr, attempts to reach the Pole by drifting, 140-3.
North-West Company founded, 72.
North-West Passage, as a road to Asia, 5-8; advantages of, 9; Sir Humphrey Gilbert on, 8-10; voyages in search of, 11-21, 23-32; the passage nearly completed, 110-11, 114-115; the passage made, 126, 145.
Norton, Moses, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, and expeditions to Coppermine river, 39, 42, 50, 51.
Orkneys, the, savage state of the inhabitants of, 15.
Parry, Sir William, and the North-West Passage, 109, 113.
Peace river, course of, 71, 76.
Peary, Commander R. E., attempts to reach the North Pole, 140; succeeds, 143-6.
Penny, Captain, finds traces of the Franklin expedition, 122.
Polar seas, a fruitful field for scientific investigation, 137; Nansen's study of a scientific theory, 140-1.
Pole, North, progress in scientific knowledge creates desire to reach, 137-8.
Rae, Dr John, and the search for the Franklin expedition, 121, 127-9.
Richardson, Sir John, with Franklin, 95, 97, 100, 101, 102, 109-10; shoots murderer of Lieutenant Hood, 103; finds Franklin in a parlous state, 103-7; in search for the Franklin expedition, 120-1.
Ross, Sir James, and the North-West Passage, 111; in search for the Franklin expedition, 121.
Ross, Sir John, 111, 118, 121.
Simpson, Thomas, and the North-West Passage, 111.
Whale Island, why so named, 86.
Wholdaia Lake, description of, 54-5.
York Factory, Franklin at, 95.
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THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA
THIRTY-TWO VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED
Edited by GEORGE M. WRONG and H. H. LANGTON
THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA
PART I
THE FIRST EUROPEAN VISITORS
1. THE DAWN OF CANADIAN HISTORY
By Stephen Leacock.
2. THE MARINER OF ST MALO
By Stephen Leacock.
PART II
THE RISE OF NEW FRANCE
3. THE FOUNDER OF NEW FRANCE
By Charles W. Colby.
4. THE JESUIT MISSIONS
By Thomas Guthrie Marquis.
5. THE SEIGNEURS OF OLD CANADA
By William Bennett Munro.
6. THE GREAT INTENDANT
By Thomas Chapais.
7. THE FIGHTING GOVERNOR
By Charles W. Colby.
PART III
THE ENGLISH INVASION
8. THE GREAT FORTRESS
By William Wood.
9. THE ACADIAN EXILES
By Arthur G. Doughty.
10. THE PASSING OF NEW FRANCE
By William Wood.
11. THE WINNING OF CANADA
By William Wood.
PART IV
THE BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH CANADA
12. THE FATHER OF BRITISH CANADA
By William Wood.
13. THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS
By W. Stewart Wallace.
14. THE WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES
By William Wood.
PART V
THE RED MAN IN CANADA
15. THE WAR CHIEF OF THE OTTAWAS
By Thomas Guthrie Marquis.
16. THE WAR CHIEF OF THE SIX NATIONS
By Louis Aubrey Wood.
17. TECUMSEH: THE LAST GREAT LEADER OF HIS PEOPLE
By Ethel T. Raymond.
PART VI
PIONEERS OF THE NORTH AND WEST
18. THE 'ADVENTURERS OF ENGLAND' ON HUDSON BAY
By Agnes C. Laut.
19. PATHFINDERS OF THE GREAT PLAINS
By Lawrence J. Burpee.
20. ADVENTURERS OF THE FAR NORTH
By Stephen Leacock.
21. THE RED RIVER COLONY
By Louis Aubrey Wood.
22. PIONEERS OF THE PACIFIC COAST
By Agnes C. Laut.
23. THE CARIBOO TRAIL
By Agnes C. Laut.
PART VII
THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM
24. THE FAMILY COMPACT
By W. Stewart Wallace.
25. THE 'PATRIOTES' OF '37
By Alfred D. DeCelles.
26. THE TRIBUNE OF NOVA SCOTIA
By William Lawson Grant.
27. THE WINNING OF POPULAR GOVERNMENT
By Archibald MacMechan.
PART VIII
THE GROWTH OF NATIONALITY
28. THE FATHERS OF CONFEDERATION
By A. H. U. Colquhoun.
29. THE DAY OF SIR JOHN MACDONALD
By Sir Joseph Pope.
30. THE DAY OF SIR WILFRID LAURIER
By Oscar D. Skelton.
PART IX
NATIONAL HIGHWAYS
31. ALL AFLOAT
By William Wood.
32. THE RAILWAY BUILDERS
By Oscar D. Skelton.