The Prairie Provinces of Canada : their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources . The forts established on the riversrunning into Hudson Pay were prima-rilv trading settlements, to which theIndians brought their furs in the springand from which the trading vesselssailed with their rich cargoes in thelate autumn. They were generally stronglybuilt, partly in order to secure immunityfrom attack by hostile natives, but moreespeciallv to enable the English traders to resisl invasion from a more dreadedfoe—the French. The latter watchedwith jealousy the guuving influence ofthe English,
The Prairie Provinces of Canada : their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources . The forts established on the riversrunning into Hudson Pay were prima-rilv trading settlements, to which theIndians brought their furs in the springand from which the trading vesselssailed with their rich cargoes in thelate autumn. They were generally stronglybuilt, partly in order to secure immunityfrom attack by hostile natives, but moreespeciallv to enable the English traders to resisl invasion from a more dreadedfoe—the French. The latter watchedwith jealousy the guuving influence ofthe English, and were determined to seizeand occupy their trading posts. In 1678the French Minister, Colbert, instructedthe Intendant of Canada that he was todispute the presence of the English in of Wale- Fort, on the Churchill River,not far from the site of a much earlierfori originally built in 1688 ; York Factory,which was long one ^i the principalstations of the Company, at the mouth ofthe Haves River and not far distant fromthe mouth of the Nelson River, whereFort Nelson was built in 1669: New. ALEXANDER MACKENZIE. the North-West, and the brilliant expedi-tion under the gallant and impetuousDIberville, the first great Canadian whosecured for himself an immortal name inhistory, compelled the English to evacuatetheir forts and to return ignominiously toEngland. For some years a state of warprevailed, and the long conflict betweenFrance and England in America wasmarked bv the taking and re-taking ofthese northern forts ; whilst the vesselsof the Hudsons Bay Company and theFrench Fur Company fought on the highseas. The principal of these forts intheir order down the coast were Prince*7 Severn, or Savanne, at the mouth of theSevern River ; Fort Albany on the riverof that name ; Moose Factory at themouth of the Moose River, known asFort St. Louis by the French ; and FortRupert at the mouth of the river of thatname. The first of these forts was builtabout the vear 1721, or according to som
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