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1871
Description of the York Boat
The water carriage of the country is performed by means of what
are called 'inland boats.' Each of these is worked by nine men,
of whom eight are rowers and the other is steersman; it is
capable of carrying about three- and-a-half tons of freight.
Brigades composed of numbers varying from four to eight of these
craft are kept plying in various directions, throughout the
season of open water, on the inland lakes and rivers between
those points to and from which goods have to be carried. The
tripmen who man these boats are Indians or Half-breeds engaged
at the place where the brigade is organized, and paid a
stipulated sum for the performance of the trip. Between Red
River Settlement and York Factory such brigades pass and re-pass
throughout the whole season of open navigation. They are
organized in the settlement, both by the Company and by such
private settlers as have capital and inclination to invest it in
that description of business. The cargoes sent to York are made
up of furs and other country produce consigned thither by the
Company for the purpose of shipment to England; the return
freight from York to the settlement is partly composed of goods
imported by private merchants and partly of those imported by
the Company for use in its trading operations. These goods have
all previously been shipped from England to York by the
Company's annual vessel.
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Source: Joseph James Hargrave, Red River (Montreal: 1871),
pp. 159-60.
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