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La Loche is a village in northwest Saskatchewan on Lac La Loche. At Lac La Loche's northern end is the Methyl Portage or Portage La Loche. Fur trade brigades such as the Portage La Loche Brigade from Fort Garry arrived from the south while the Athabasca and Mackenzie brigades came from the north. These brigades distributed provisions to the numerous posts along their routes while the furs were transported to York Factory on the Hudson Bay for shipment to England.
The Métis are the larger population in the northern village of La Loche, with the Dene making up the larger population on the nearby Clearwater River Dene Nation.

This item is one page (folio 43 verso) of a bound sketchbook, which can also be accessed in cover-to-cover form. The page has been squared for transfer.

Colour transparency of the item before conservation is of the double page spread, folio 43 verso and 44 recto (C-141437 and C-141438). This page has also been copied as C-145930 and C-145932.

Inscribed., Inscription: in pen and brown ink, from bottom up, in the direction of the journey: "HB house; NW do; Buffalo Lake; Methye River"; (Partial transcription)