. A biological investigation of the Athabaska-Mackenzie region. Zoology. 1908.] ROUTES TRAVERSED MAC KKXZTE. 107 length of the more contracted part of the canyon is 5 miles and for '2 miles more the channel is but slightly expanded. Then it widens out and incloses the Manitou Islands. Fort Good Hope (PL XIII, fig. 1) is built on the right bank of the Mackenzie, about 2 miles below the Ramparts, only a few miles south of the Arctic Circle. It consists of the establishments of the Hudson's Pay Company and one or two private traders, and that of the Roman Catholic mission, whose church, a highly
. A biological investigation of the Athabaska-Mackenzie region. Zoology. 1908.] ROUTES TRAVERSED MAC KKXZTE. 107 length of the more contracted part of the canyon is 5 miles and for '2 miles more the channel is but slightly expanded. Then it widens out and incloses the Manitou Islands. Fort Good Hope (PL XIII, fig. 1) is built on the right bank of the Mackenzie, about 2 miles below the Ramparts, only a few miles south of the Arctic Circle. It consists of the establishments of the Hudson's Pay Company and one or two private traders, and that of the Roman Catholic mission, whose church, a highly ornamented structure, is the. Fig. 9.—Right bank of Mackenzie, near lower end of Ramparts, near latitude 66 . largest in the region north of Fort Resolution. The post has occupied its present site since ; A low limestone ridge, the continuation "Fort Good Hope probably existed in effeel as ;i Northwest post early in the nineteenth century, but accounts differ as \<:;, after the union of the rival companies, being spoken of by Franklin in 1825 as "bul recently ; It was removed aboul L835 to Manitou Island, below the Ramparts, where its site may still be soon on the eastern shore of the island nearly opposite the pres- ent establishment. It was destroyed in June, L836, by a Hood caused by an ice jam in the Ramparts and was rebuilt on its preseul site in ls.' Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Preble, Edward Alexander, 1871-1957. Washington, Govt. print. off.
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