The Making of Treaty #8 in Canada's Northwest
Heritage Community Foundation Presents
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Virtual Museum of Canada
HomeSitemapSearchContactAbout UsImages of Treaty 8Help
The Peoples, Their Places

Through the Mackenzie Basin: Lesser Slave River and Lesser Slave Lake

   
Through The Mackenzie Basin Original Edition"Here we were at the treaty point at last, safe and sound, with new interests and excitements before us; with wild man instead of wild weather to encounter; with discords to harmonize and suspicions to allay by human kindness, perhaps by human firmness, but mainly by the just and generous terms proffered by Government to an isolated but highly interesting and deserving people."

Reprinted from Through the Mackenzie Basin: An Account of the Signing of Treaty No. 8 and the Scrip Commission, 1899 by Charles Mair.