. History of Saskatchewan and the Old North West. ,though it was abandoned thirty-two years later. It was situated in westlongitude iii. 18. 32 antl nfjrih latitude 38^, 40. The Slave River andits tributaries to the north, the Peace River to the west, Athabasca to thesouth, and the Churchill, with its chain of lakes, to the east, constitutednatural highways to this centre. This fort was for several )ears the headi|uarters of the great fur traderand explorer. ^Alexander .Mackenzie, and from it he conducted his exploringexpeditions down the .Slave River, up the Peace River, down the MackenzieRiv
. History of Saskatchewan and the Old North West. ,though it was abandoned thirty-two years later. It was situated in westlongitude iii. 18. 32 antl nfjrih latitude 38^, 40. The Slave River andits tributaries to the north, the Peace River to the west, Athabasca to thesouth, and the Churchill, with its chain of lakes, to the east, constitutednatural highways to this centre. This fort was for several )ears the headi|uarters of the great fur traderand explorer. ^Alexander .Mackenzie, and from it he conducted his exploringexpeditions down the .Slave River, up the Peace River, down the MackenzieRiver to the Arctic Seas in 1789, and over the Rocky Mountains to thePacific in 1793. In recognition of his notable achievements as an explorer,Mackenzie was knighted in 1802, his entrancing journals having beenpublished in the preceding year. * Prof. Brvce speaks of PoikI as the marplot wlio had divided the company,Makers of Caimda, Vol. VHI, p. l--—^ ? . , ,,.-^-f ? I,- - lltH 1 n I908 ~^1 IM 1912 HISTORY OF THE lKO\ IXCE OK SASKATCIIEWAX 43 Jn 1795, or, as some aiitlKirities .slate, in i/^j^, a new trading organization,known as Tlie X. Y. Conipan\-, came uilo existence as an ofTshoot of theXorlii West Company. .\pi)arently the myslerions letters involved in itsname were not initials or contractions. The bales of the North West Com-pany were marked witii llic letters X. W., and the new company simplyemployed the next two letters of the alphabet. Jhe concern is sometimescalled tile little North West Company, or La Ietile Comjiagnie. From thisits members and cmploNces got the riame of Lcs Ietils, which degeneratedinto Tile Potties. This comi^any o\\ed its oiigin to the bitter rivalry betweenAlexander Mackenzie and Simon McTavish with tlieir respective adherents,and consisted of partisans of the former, though Roderick Mackenziei-emained with the Xorlh West Company. The two concerns again unitedin 18historyofsaskatc00blac
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