Harmon's Journal

by Harmon, Daniel W.

• ISBN13: 9781894898447
• ISBN10: 1894898443
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-30
• Publisher: Touchwood Ed

Summary

Honesty and raw emotion enliven Daniel Williams Harmon's account of his travels and adventures in the western Canada of 200 years ago. Historically significant as the most observant early frontier memoir, Harmon's journal tells an engaging story that captures the rough-and-tumble life of a fur trader and explorer on both sides of the Rocky Mountains. Harmon offers valuable descriptions of the cultures and customs of the First Nations people he met and details the activities of such notable personalities as David Thompson, Simon Fraser, Roderick McKenzie and John Stuart.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Jennifer S.H Brown	vii
Preface to the 2006 Edition by Graham R. Ross	xiii
Introduction to the 1957 Edition by W. Kaye Lamb	xv
Preface to the 1820 Edition by Daniel Haskel	xxxv
JOURNAL OR NARRATIVE OF DANIEL WILLIAMS HARMON
JOURNEY TO THE WEST: 1800
Montreal to Grand Portage	3	(11)
Grand Portage to Fort Alexandria	14	(13)
SWAN RIVER DEPARTMENT: 1800-1805
Fort Alexandria	27	(7)
Swan River Fort	34	(3)
Second Sojourn at Fort Alexandria	37	(3)
Bird Mountain	40	(6)
Third Sojourn at Fort Alexandria	46	(6)
Second Sojourn at Bird Mountain	52	(2)
Fourth Sojourn at Fort Alexandria	54	(5)
Lac la Peche	59	(7)
Fifth Sojourn at Fort Alexandria	66	(9)
Fort Alexandria to New Fort	75	(6)
THE SASKATCHEWAN: 1805-1807
New Fort to South Branch House	81	(3)
South Branch House	84	(3)
Cumberland House	87	(2)
Cumberland House to Fort William	89	(2)
NIPIGON: 1807-1808
Fort William to Sturgeon Lake	91	(1)
Sturgeon Lake Fort	92	(2)
Sturgeon Lake Fort to Fort William and thence to Dunvegan	94	(9)
ATHABASKA: 1808-1810
Dunvegan	103	(9)
Dunvegan to Stuart's Lake	112	(7)
NEW CALEDONIA: 1810-1816
Stuart's Lake	119	(20)
Stuart's Lake to Dunvegan and return	139	(3)
Second Sojourn at Stuart's Lake	142	(12)
Fraser's Lake	154	(1665)
HARMON'S JOURNAL: APRIL 1816—AUGUST	1819
REPRINTED FROM THE FIRST EDITION, EDITED BY DANIEL HASKEL.
Third Sojourn at Stuart's Lake	171	(4)
Stuart's Lake to Fort William	175	(2)
CHARACTER OF THE CANADIAN VOYAGERS	177	(2)
About the Scholars	179	(2)
Index	181