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Show 664 Summer ( "before before before ) last ( he lie ) was working on what was to be a book covering the earlier explorations ( and aud ) the present day status of the development of North ( Cailada-The CailadaThe ) ( Nearing Neariutr ) North . He went to Edmonton , and from there to the Peace river , up that river by the regular Hudson Bay steamer ; then endeavored to pass through Peace river canyon , which Mackenzie had ( endeav endeav- endeav ) ored to boat in 1793 with a birch bark canoe . There had been no record of the point he reached in the canyon . He took a birch bark canoe with an ( out-board outboard ) motor , and after losing the boat and the motor and getting very wet and scratched up , he finally ( lo- lo ) cated the point which Mackenzie had to leave Rocky Mountain canyon and portage . That was his experience on the Peace river . Returning to Edmonton by rail went on to a waterways boat there ; I took a steamer down the Athabasca and the Slave and the Mackenzie to ( tide- tide ) water , following ( Mackenzie's Mackenzies ) route . Then ( re- re ) turned by steamer and by rail to Edmonton . Then voyaged down the Saskatchewan river , again on the route of the old explorers , in a ( fold fold- fold ) ing canvas boat with an outboard motor . This carried me to the Pas , from whence ( he lie ) portaged to the Nelson river , which he boated down to ( Hud Hud- Hud ) son Bay . ( R . 2558 . ) In nearly every instance he operated the boats , where it was not steamer ( travel trairel ) , and very ( fre- fre ) quently alone , but where necessary with the ( aid aicl ) of |