3-074-953 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lord Lonsdale's travels in the Arctic regions of North America: Fort Norman, Mackenzie River, 1890. 'The enterprising and courageous performance of the Earl of Lonsdale in travelling northward, from the Saskatchewan River of the Great Western Territory of Canada to the shores of the Arctic Ocean, and thence crossing Alaska westward to the North Pacific...has excited much attention...Few people, except some officers of the Hudson Bay Company and of the Alaska Fur Company, have made acquaintance with those desolate regions...It was on Feb. 22, 1888, that his Lordship left England for Canada, determined to travel as far as he could overland in the Far West of the American continent, as well as to shoot a musk ox and a white bear in the most distant haunts of those animals, and to examine some facts in the natural history of that region..."At half past seven we landed at the present Fort Norman, which is situated about a hundred yards from Great Bear River, issuing from Great Bear Lake. Mr. Irvine, the officer in charge of the fort, informed me that the musk ox is found within ten days' journey from here, and that bears, deer, and moose are in the vicinity, mostly on the hills.".' From "Illustrated London News", 1890.