Bancroft's Works History of the Northwest Coast vol 2 . ing the country. Asearly as 1812 there were two establishments there, Montour being in charge ofthat of the Northwest Company, while Pellet acted for the Pacific Company. 15 Arrowsmith places this post at the junction of the Kootenais and theColumbia. 10 There are no less than three establishments by this name, no great dis-tance apart, laid down on Arrowsmiths map, one on Peace River, the onenow mentioned as Jasper House, and one on the Saskatchewan. JasperHouse was once of considerable importance, both as the centre of a fur-producing c
Bancroft's Works History of the Northwest Coast vol 2 . ing the country. Asearly as 1812 there were two establishments there, Montour being in charge ofthat of the Northwest Company, while Pellet acted for the Pacific Company. 15 Arrowsmith places this post at the junction of the Kootenais and theColumbia. 10 There are no less than three establishments by this name, no great dis-tance apart, laid down on Arrowsmiths map, one on Peace River, the onenow mentioned as Jasper House, and one on the Saskatchewan. JasperHouse was once of considerable importance, both as the centre of a fur-producing country, and as an important post on the regular line of travelbetween Norway House and Edmonton on the east, and the New Caledonian 122 DESCENT OF FRASER RIVER. and Henry House, in Athabasca Pass, were estab-lished later. Over in New Caledonia, at the confluence of thenorth branch of Thompson River with ThompsonRiver proper was erected a log-house, at first knownas Fort Thompson, but which later became Thompson crossed the mountains at. Thompson- River. and Columbian districts on the west. Father De Smet, Oregon Missions,127-30, and Grant, Ocean to Ocean, 232, mention Jasper House as an impor-tant though then nearly abandoned station. Kane, Wanderings, 153-4, saysthe place where he saw and made a sketch of it consisted of only three mis-erable huts, and was only kept up for the purpose of supplying horses toparties crossing the mountains. 17 Some time after there were two posts at this point, both at the south-eastern extremity of Kamloops Lake near the entrance of Thompson Riverand the junction of the north branch. On Trutchs Map B. C, 1871, the oneon the north and the west sides of the main and north branches is called OldFort, and the one on the south bank is called H. B. C. Fort. A post wasplaced here in 1812 by Alexander Ross for the Pacific Fur Company. RossAdv., 201-2. It is the establishment on the south bank that more properlytakes the name of Fort Kaml
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