Cumberland House George Hudson
Aug. 4 1787
" Muschettos very troublesome it is not pofsible to do anything without Doors and has been for nigh 3 weeks."
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Cumberland House Malcolm Ross
Aug. 20 1789
" at noon arrived 2 Canoes of the Indians that accompanied Mr. William Tomison to York Factory they brought 6 Bundles of Cloth and Tobacco 4 Guns and 2 kettles they inform me of their getting drunk the day that they left York Factory and Quarreled amongst themselves and one man has got his nose bitten off which occaisioned him to send back his Cargo to York Factory another has lost part of the nose one Thumb and one finger."...
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Cumberland House George Hudson
Apr. 8 1787
" George Charles had the Misfortune to freeze the back part of his heel on the 1st January not anywise bad but by neglect of taking care and cleansing it has turned so bad with a great Quantity of proud flesh. I was obliged to cut it this Day and apply blue Vitriol to it but not having any knowledge in any of the kind I am ? affraid it will prove dangerous unlefs there was some skilful person in surgery to inspect it. all that can be done with it is to wash it often in the Liquor in which Juniper bark and country tea is boiled in which is certainly of a very cleansing Nature".

May 14 1787
" Almost healed up"
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From a letter from Wm Tomison at Edmonton to George Sutherland at Cumberland House
Dec. 20 1795
" Edmonton House is about 100 miles to the westward of Buckingham it is 60 feet long 24 wide and 17 high, but have been only able to Stockade the front and one side - all the wood has been rafted down by water there being no wood where the House is erected - we have also built another House 32 ft long 18 wide & 16 high and a Smiths shop"...
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Edmonton Journal James Bird
Feb. 21 1808
" A Band of Blood Indians arrived in which are twenty Chiefs, all they have brought amounts to no more than 100 Wolves, and they say the want of Snow in the plains is the Cause of their making such poor Hunts, the Ground being too slippery to admit of their running Wolves - The only Method they take to kill them."
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Buckingham House Journal Wm Tomison
Apr. 7 1793 Sunday
" at 8 AM John Ward arrived having on Thursday gone after some red Deer missed the people, and after the fruitlefs search of 1 whole day, he shaped his course for the house having eat nothing scince Wednesday."
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Buckingham House Journal Wm Tomison
Apr. 13 1793
" 3 men working at Canoe work , the rest collecting firewood till 9 AM afterwards all hands employed to save the House and Canoes from being destroyed by the woods being set on fire to the windward which burnt with just fury and it was with difficulty we could save the Property from being Destroy'd - This bad action was done purposely by Mr. Shaw and his men, they also set fire to a Large quantity of wood we had collected together and consumed the whole, it is therefore humbly requested by all here that something may be done in England to protect your honours servants from the Insults of those Law lefs rabble in this Country."
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Lists of Men written on a page dated 1796
Cumberland House
" M. Oman
Mag Twatt
Ed Brown
Henry Budge
Jas Flett
Wm Hawkland
Jas Sutherland"

Buckingham House
"Peter Fidler
Ja Gaddy
Gilbert Laughton
Nicol Allan
John Ballenden
Mag Chambers
James Davey
John Forbest
Jn Flett
Wm Flett
Jn Linklater
Tho Isbester
Wm Isbester
Laughton Leith
Donald Mowatt
Jn Mowatt
Jn Irvin
Wm Park
Wm Rich
Peter Sabeston
Mag Spence
Geo Spence
Wm Sinclair
Nichol Spence
Ja Rofs
Wm Tomison
Jn Moore
Mag Yorston"
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