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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/B/OMS/C C1 O 27/1-66
TitleRev Henry George
Extent66 items
Date1854-1876
DescriptionFort Alexander 1855; Cumberland [with Moose Lake 1857] 1856-57; Portage la Prairie 1858-59; Westbourne, White Mud River 1860-64; Portage la Prairie 1865-76 [with Touchwood Hills and Fort Pelly]
/1-54 Letters 1854-61, 1863-68, 1870-76 [includes reference to Beaver Creek Fort (schoolmaster Gilbert Cook) 1861and reference to Peter Garrioch at Westbourne 1867] including:
/8 Order for supplies [including medicines] for Cumberland for 1857;
/9 Order for supplies for Henry Budd 1856;
/10 Order for supplies for Nepowewin station 1856;
/15-16 Order for goods for Cumberland and Nepowewin for 1858;
/18 Order for tools for Cumberland 1858;
/19 Includes timetable for school 1857;
/20 Timetable for annual examination of school 23 Dec 1857;
/23 Describes tour to Fort Pelly district and encloses map of the country in the vicinity of Fort Pelly 23 Sep 1858 [includes C. Pratt's house, new fort, roads and types of ground];
/27 Order for stationery 1860;
/42A [first page missing] [1865];
/44B Statistics for St. Mary, La Prairie Easter 1866-67;
/53A-C Reference to changing of Hudson's Bay Company's system of promissory notes 1873;

/55-57 Letters to Archdeacon Cowley and Canon Grisdale [finance secretaries] reference to accounts 1874-75;
/58 Copy of letter to Mrs. - of Barnes [England] with detailed account of mission activities and comments on American Civil War and relationships between Canada and America 1862;

/59-61 Journals including:
/59 30 May - 29 Aug 1854: journal of voyage out;
/60 29 Mar - 19 May 1855: visit to Fort Alexander with appendix giving school statistics, plan for school and temporary dwelling house (with sketch), plan and estimate for possible mission house, notes on natural history of area;
/61 26 Aug 1856 - 12 Jun 1857;

/62-66 Annual letters for 1857, 1860, 1862, 1867-68 including:
/62 Mainly relates to Moose Lake 1857;
/63 Includes reference to liquor traffic (rum) 1860
Access ConditionsMicrofilm or digital copies are made available in place of the originals.
Access StatusOpen, but subject to some access restrictions
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