Excerpt from Sketch: Of the North-West of America
When writing "Vingt Annees de Missions," we were aware how imperfect the work was, and that, to render it interesting, there were wanting, amongst other things, explanations touching the character and history of the country which had been the theatre of the missionary labors we described. We did, indeed, promise to supply explanatory notes on these points, but frequent long journeys and other business prevented our then carrying out the intention to which we now apply ourselves.
Neither the church nor geographical division of the country supplying us with a single name by which to designate it, we shall adopt its commercial title, that is to say the name by which that part of British America is known in the great mercantile organization of the Honorable Hudson's Bay Company.
"The Northern Department" includes all that will be treated of in this sketch.
This vast country is bounded to the south by the United States, or the 49th parallel of latitude, to the west by the Rocky Mountains, to the north by the Arctic Sea, to the east by the straits and gulfs which connect Baffin's Bay with Hudson's Bay, 2ndly by Hudson's Bay itself, (not including James's Bay), 3rdly by a line connecting Cape Henrietta with the 40th parallel of latitude, following the watershed between Hudson's Bay, properly so called, and James's Bay with Lake Superior, or, for simplicity's sake, let us consider 90° W. long, as the eastern boundary.
The continental portion of this vast Department includes, then, the country between 49° and 70° N. lat. In the south it stretches from 90° to 115° W. long., and in the north from 90° to 140° W. long.
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