Mayne re extent of CJ on Van. Island ca. 1862

[David Robertson]

Klahowya weght!

Mayne, R.C., "Four years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island:  An
account of their forests, rivers, coasts, gold fields, and resources for
colonisation".  London:  John Murray, 1862.

*pages 244-245:  'The southern tribes, as a rule, understand the Chinook
Jargon, in which almost all the intercourse between Indians and whites is
at present carried on.  A few men may be found in almost all of the
northern, and many of the inland tribes, who understand it, but its use is
most common in the south.  This Chinook is a strange jargon of French,
English, and Indian words, of which several vocabularies have been
published.  It was introduced by the Hudson Bay Company for the purposes
of trading, and its French element is due to the number of French
Canadians in their employ.'

There's that old myth about the HBC inventing the language again.

Is this the Mayne of Mayne Island, BC?

Right now, I'd like ta clatter away!
Dave



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