Fort Chipewyan
Built by North West Company, 1788, on southern shore
of Lake Athabaska, near mouth of Athabaska River. Removed, 1820, by
Hudson's Bay Company to north shore, where it still stands. =Index=:
(Mackenzie / Selkirk / Simpson era) Built by Roderick Mackenzie, on Lake Athabaska, 24; its situation,
25; its famous library, 26; route to, from Grand Portage, 27; life at
the fort, 28; Mackenzie sets forth from, on his journey to Arctic, 32;
Governor Simpson at, 1828, 236; William McGillivray in charge of, 236.
(Sir James Douglas era) Mackenzie at, 53; his point of departure for Arctic journey, 53; and
Pacific expedition, 53. =Bib.=: Mackenzie, History of Fur Trade in his
The Great Company; Laut, Conquest of the Great North-West.