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Hudson House William Walker
May 19 1786
..."In the morning Mr William Tomison accompanied by one Canoe Embarked for Cumberland House."

May 26
"The men employed as before till about five oClock and then they finished building and repairing Canoes. Indeed lately We have had extraordinary good Weather They have built 5 Canoes since Mr. Tomison Embarked."


Aug. 1 1786
"The men employed felling a little Poplar for burning Ashes to make Soap."

Aug. 11 1786
..."The men employed fetching some Pine Bark for to Cover part of the Roof of the House that we had Cover'd with Turf. We found the Latter would not answer when any Long continuance of Rain."
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Copy of a letter from Wm Tomison to Wm Walker
Nov. 14 1786
"After a Journey of nine days we arrived at the Pine Island where Mr [Donald] McKay built on last Summer which proves to be the same place Pointed out by the Natives for us to build on. It is 60 miles above the fighting river Their is at Present four Houses all different Interests Two more between 30 and 40 miles above this and one at the Fighting River below So that Indians has nothing to do but go from house to house get Drunk and beg Goods on Expectation of what they are to bring. Our house is not yet finnished and is built on the same spot where Magnus Spence worked in the Summer and is 60 feet by 22. We are now at work on the Stockades"...
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Ile a la Crosse William Linklater
Feb. 15 1806
" a Nd Indian Arrived at our house who told us to come to his tent for a few skins and some Buffaloe flesh, sent off three men with seven dogs And the fifth night after they came with 40 Skins & 500 lbs green meat."

Ile a la Crosse William Linklater
Mar. 27 1806
"Rec'd a Letter from the Green Lake by Canadians containing the sad account of Wm Budge having killed a Canadian and wounded another. Mr Sutherland tells me that the murderer with two Canadian men were sent from the Green Lake with Letters for the Sascachewan, and on the third night after their departure that Budge shot one man dead and wounded the other in his Breast and Arm and that without the least provocation whatever, the wounded man had still so much strength left as enable him to sit on his dogs sled which carried him back to Green Lake in two days. Mr. Sutherland saw the wounded man on his Arrival and he saith the manner that the rest of the story is told in leaves but little room to doubt of its being true."
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Hudson House William Walker
Sept. 17 1782
"At noon arrived two Indians from 27 Tents of Fall Indians for Tobacco. Just came from Warr. I sent them two fathom. They say they will not be in till a little snow be upon the Ground."

Sept. 19
"The two Fall Indians went back to their own Tents. They inform me that they killed 15 Tents of Snake Indians this Summer when they was at Warr."
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Hudson House Journal
List of men leaving for Hudson House
Sept. 1780

Robert Longmoor
James Elphington
Malcolm Rofs
Magnus Twatt
Charles Isham
Mitchell Oman
William Oman
James Spence Sen.
Robert Davy
William Leutit
James Sanderson
James Spence Jun.
Magnus Annell
James Tate
Thomas Tate
Thomas Johnston
Nicholas Wishart
Edward Wishart
William Coupland
William Folster
George Rofs
John Irvin
"and one homeguard Indian"
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In the middle of a copy of a letter from Robert Longmoor to George Hudson in the Hudson House Journal, William Walker felt he had to explain something with an NB.
Sept. 30 1786
..."If Mr Walker had stood to Mr Tomisons Order He would not have made anything at all."

"NB. The above information is false. Witness Mr Wiliam Tomisons Orders to me was very requisite ??and which I did obey as far as being in my Power. Mr. Longmoor being always intoxicated he did not know what he said."
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