From a letter by Wm Tomison at Buckingham to James Tate
Jan. 30 1793?
" I am sorry to inform you that the Blood is dead, and Longfoot died of his wounds quarreling with the others, The Straight Horn was drowned."
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Buckingham House Wm Tomison
Feb. 15 1794
" the Taylor making Childrens Cloathing out of Printed Cotton 2 Men Lame by cutting themselves one in the hand & the other in the Leg & 3 Men Sawing Plank 4 Men Shaving Stockades & the rest melting fat meat down for fat to make Pimmican."
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Buckingham House Wm Tomison
Feb. 17 1794
" Three Men Sawing boards for building a Boat four Men barking Stockades, Taylor making Childrens Cloathing & the rest made 20 Bags of Pimmican for the Journey down 74 lbs each."
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Buckingham House Wm. Tomison
Mar. 4 1794
" finished trading with the Indians & they went away. these have been very poorly gooded having brought no more than 500 Made Beaver which is trifling for 10 Able Men."
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Buckingham House Wm. Tomison
Apr. 23 1794
" The Smith making Awls for sewing the Canoes"

Apr. 24 1794
" 12 Men getting Roots for sewing Canoes 4 Men with Horses bringing in Black Earth to sow some Cabbage seeds in"..."3 Men planeing Splinters & the rest made 650 lbs of Pimmican for the Journey down"...
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Edmonton House James Bird?
Nov. 11 1814
" The Men of this Settlement are at present employed as follows, James Folster is tenting with three tents of Southward Indians to take care of what Skins they may kill as they are tenting in the area of several free Canadians, Peter Flett and John McIntyre are living with the Hunters to collect Meat. Robert Rowland & Peter Corrigal are fishing at the Gods Lake, James Whiteway and George Spence are at the Summer Berry River waiting till they receive the fall Hunts of a few Indians who are in that Quarter. Hugh Gibson is taking care of our Horses at a distance from the House to prevent their being stolen. John Moar is making a Boat. Gilbert Budge making small pine Kegs for the Indian Trade. James Dickson making occaisional iron work for boat builder, Indian Awls, Steels and repairing Hatchets, David Johnston with a Horse hawling fire wood. Angus McKay and John Foubister Sawing Wood for Boats. James Rofs, Murdock Rofsie, John Morrwick, William Gibson cutting fire wood and Mr. Wm. Flett cooking."
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Cumberland House Malcolm Ross?
Dec. 5 1784
" this morning Edward Umphreville and two Canadians came here to deliver a message from Mr. Holmes which was as follows I find you are to? Intimate with William Tomison but I desire for the future that you have no correspondence with that impertinant scoundrel but as he gave no reason for calling me, so I return him the same compliment back again."
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Cumberland House
Feb. 3 1797
" Pemmican, 26 Bags 76 lbs each"
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Edmonton House James Bird
May 30 1816
" Embarked for York Factory in eleven Boats and one Canoe manned by fifty-four Men and conveying the Furs etc. procured in the Saskatchewan and at Cumberland District. Mefs Kennedy and Heron with William Tate, James Fisk and the following Men remain at Cumberland till all the NWC Canoes pafs this place (as I am of opinion that under the present state of affairs in Red River the Canadians might attempt, if they saw the House in a weak state, to destroy the Pemican it contains and thereby crush entirely every undertaking to the Northward) William Ballenden, Peter Randall, George Innis, Patrick Cunningham, Robert Twatt, William McKinlay and George Gibson. Mr. Kennedy and the first four named Men intend going to England by the next Ship"...
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Edmonton House Journal James Bird
still on the way to York Factory.
July 8 1816
..." from Red River who bring us the distrefsing intelligence of the Death of Govenor Semple, Mr. Williamson, Mr. Rogers, Holt, white and Mr? Lean and of the total destruction of the Colony by Half Breeds and Canadians employed for the purpose by the North West Company"
" Thus has this infant Settlement in which I and many other parents in this Country had hoped to find an Asylum, where our wretched offspring would be instructed in the knowledge and duties of civilized Life, again fallen to the selfish views of a set of unprincipled unfeeling? commercial Despots"...
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Buckingham House Peter Fidler
Dec. 19 1796
" Thermometer 60 below the Cypher - The lowest I ever knew at these eight years past"
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Buckingham House George Sutherland
Dec. 3 1797
" This Evening we had a Total Eclipse of the moon we cannot tell precisely when it began as it was not observ'd till 5 minutes past Nine and Continued till 21 past a 11 it was Beautiful to a great Degree as we had the Advantage of full Moon and very clear - with an Infinite Multitude of Stars - Perhaps there is no Country in the World where the heavenly Bodies can be Viewed with the Naked Eye to more advantage than here in the Winter Season."...
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