Chapter 17

The Northwest, 1821 - 1860s

• John Palliser
  http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/documents/
  palliser_observations.htm

  See this site for John Palliser's confidential dispatch of March 1858 to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the proposed annexation of Rupert's Land.

• Henry Youle Hind
  http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/documents/
  dochind_buffalo_hunt.htm

  This page offers an excerpt from Hind's narrative on the buffalo hunt.

• Sir John Franklin
  http://www.ric.edu/rpotter/sjfranklin.html

  An extensive archive on material relating to the Franklin Expedition is available at this site.