MacKenzie, Selkirk, Simpson
The Makers of Canada, By Rev. George Bryce, D.D. (1910)

Contents

SIR ALEXANDER MACKENZIE

• Chapter I - Struggle of the Fur Companies
• Chapter II - The Young Trader
• Chapter III - Fort Chipewyan
• Chapter IV - A Dash to the Arctic Sea
• Chapter V - The Ascent of the Great River
• Chapter VI - A Wider Horizon
• Chapter VII - Winter on Peace River
• Chapter VIII - Over the Great Divide
• Chapter IX - First to the Pacific and Return
• Chapter X - Fame Achieved and the Ebbing Tide
• Chapter XI - The Great Explorer's Impulse

LORD SELKIRK

• Chapter I - A Youthful Philosopher
• Chapter II - First Experiments in Emigration
• Chapter III - A Dream of Empire
• Chapter IV - The Colony Begun
• Chapter V - Red River Occupied
• Chapter VI - Angry Passions
• Chapter VII - Bloodshed
• Chapter VIII - An Expedition of Rescue
• Chapter IX - Worry and Disaster
• Chapter X - The Shadows Fall

SIR GEORGE SIMPSON

• Chapter I - Dark Days and the Man for the Time
• Chapter II - The Men he Led
• Chapter III - The Domain of an Emperor
• Chapter IV - As Civil Ruler
• Chapter V - A Journey Round the World
• Chapter VI - In His Letters
• Chapter VII - Before the Imperial Parliament
• Chapter VIII - Canada's Debt to the Fur Companies

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