l's proclamation, 170-171; sends Duncan
Cameron and Alexander Macdonell to Red River, 172-173; breaks up the
colony, 174-176. =D= Influence upon development of Pacific slope, 4;
conserves British interests in western America, 17, 18. =Hd=
Establishment of, 261-263. =Bk= Its headquarters at Montreal, 99. _See
also_ Hudson's Bay Company; X Y Company; Montreal Company. =Bib.=:
Mackenzie, _Voyages_; Henry, _Travels and Adventures_; Henry-Thompson,
_Journals_, ed. by Coues; Harmon, _Journal_; _Narrative of Occurrences
in the Indian Country_; _Sketch of the British Fur Trade_; Bancroft,
_History of the North-West Coast_; Bryce, _Hudson's Bay Company_; Begg,
_History of the North-West_; Masson, _Bourgeois de la Compagnie du
Nord-Ouest_; Tasse, _Canadiens de l'Ouest_; Laut, _Conquest of the Great
North-West_; Burpee, _Search for the Western Sea_.

=North-West Passage.= =D= Tenacity of belief in its existence, 50;
Mackenzie's journey to Pacific is additional blow to belief in, 55.

=North-West Rebellion.= _See_ Riel Rebellion.

=North-West Territories.= Comprised all the western portions of Canada,
except Manitoba and British Columbia. Its early history is the history
of the western fur trade, whose forts became in time centres of
settlement. In 1870, the territories were transferred to Canada by the
Hudson's Bay Company. In 1882, four provisional districts were
formed--Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Athabaska. In 1905 these
were made into the two provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. =Index=:
=B= Annexation of, advocated by George Brown, 137; communication to be
opened with, 166; value of, 174; acquisition of, 186; Brown's interest
in, 211-213, 217, 218-221; R.B. Sullivan's address on, 1847, 211; warns
Canadians of danger of American occupation, and urges immediate steps to
settle and develop the country, 211; Isbister's work on behalf of, 212,
213; _Globe_ article on, 213-215; value of the country, 214; Edward
Fitzgerald on agricultural possibilities of, 214; "Huron's" letters in
the _Globe_ on, 216; Toronto Board of Trade urges acquisition and
settlement of, 216; _Globe_ carries on vigorous campaign, 216-217;
William Macdougall an enthusiastic advocate, 217; incorporation of,
adopted as part of Reform Convention of 1857, 217; project ridiculed by
Niagara _Mail_, 217-218; and Montreal _Transcript_, 218; matter taken up
by Canadian government, and arrangements made for acquiring the
territories, 220-221; bill for gov