[Transcriber Note: Produced by Owen O'Donovan. (Includes additional materials: List of some other publications of his work; notes on the editing; example of music scroll; details of Nelson's fur trade career; table of contents; page images of handwritten manuscript; references.)]...

Peers, Laura & Schenck, Theresa (ed.). My First Years in the Fur Trade: The Journals of 1802-1804 . St. Paul. Minnesota Historical Society Press. 2002. The La Ronge journal of 1823 has also been published in hard copy in an extensively researched work by Jennifer S. Brown and Robert Brightman in 1988. This work contains additional commentaries on the Nelson text by Stan Cuthand and Emma laRoque. Brown, Jennifer S. H., & Brightman, Robert (ed.). "The Orders of the Dreamed": George

Nelson's manuscript is a handwritten first draft for a work on North American aboriginal belief systems, completed in June, 1823. Nelson had intended to edit and publish it at a later date. The first publication did not occur until 1988 in "The Orders of the Dreamed": George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823 where it is given a comprehensive, analytical and contextual treatment by Jennifer Brown and Robert Brightman with contributions from other authors. The goals for th

1802/1803    Yellow River, Wisconsin, XY Company (XYC) 1803/1804    Lac du Flambeau, Chippewa River, Wisconsin, XYC 1804/1805    Lake Winnipeg / Red River area (no journal), Manitoba, XYC / North West Company (NWC) 1805/1806    Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba, NWC 1806/1811    Dauphin River, Manitoba, NWC 1811/1812    Tête au Brochet (Jack Head), Manitoba, NWC 1813/1816    Long Lake, Ontario area, NWC 1818/1819    Tête au Brochet, Manitoba, NWC 1819/1821    Moose Lake, Manitoba, NWC / Hudson's Bay Compa

His uneasiness increasing too much, he was forced to have recourse to their only alternative in such cases, une Jonglerie as the French term it, that is conjuring. One of their party, another half-breed abandoned many years since by his father and leading an Indian life, was applied to. He is reputed a true man : [he] never lies. Out of respect to the other, he was induced to consent, but much against his will. "For I am much afraid that [one] of these times they will carry me off ." He was prep

Atlas of Saskatchewan (CD ROM Edition). Saskatoon. University of Saskatchewan. 2000. "Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park", website of the Burnett Historical Society. http://theforts.org Kirk, Sylvia & Brown, Jennifer. "George Nelson", Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4104 Nelson, George. My First Years in the Fur Trade: The Journals of 1802 - 1804 . Peers, Laura & Schenck, Theresa (eds). St. Paul, Minnesota, Minne