Haida-based trade language (more)

[Mike Cleven]

David Robertson wrote:
>
> LhaXayEm.
>
> >From Richard Somerset Mackie, "Trading Beyond the Mountains:  The British Fur
> Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843" (Vancouver:  UBC, 1997):
>
> page 296:  "To the North, Tolmie recalled, the company's eviction of American
> fur traders from the North West Coast in the 1830s resulted in the
> displacement of the 'Kygani' trading jargon and its replacement by Chinook."
> [footnote 41]
>
> page 373 [footnote 41]:  "Originally, there were two trading languages.  As
> Tolmie explained:  'Before the HB Steamer "Beaver" in 1836 and later made it
> unprofitable for traders in sailing vessels to visit the Coast, a jargon
> consisting chiefly of broken Kygani and Tshatshinni Haida and English was the
> lingua franca, or medium of communication, between traders and indians as far
> south to my knowledge as Milbank Sound.'  The language originated at Kaigani.
> Elsewhere, Tolmie referred to the Kaigani jargon as 'the "lingua franca" of
> the Northwest Coast fifty years ago and later, altho now in disuse generally,
> supplanted by a much changed Chinook Jargon.'  In 1862, Richard Mayne
> similarly noted that the southern tribes universally understood Chinook, but
> the northern tribes did not.  Tolmie to Swan, 30 December 1878 and 6 July
> 1879, Swan Papers, UBC; Green Journal of a Tour, 40-1, and Anderson, 'Notes on
> the Indian Tribes,' 74; Mayne, 'Four Years,' 244-5."
>
> I will send along some notes from this same book with regard to ChInuk
> Wawa.

Hmm.  I wonder if Barbara at U.Vic can direct us to any materials which
might actually have any records of this Jargon; between the HBC and the
other British agencies and authorities you'd think _someone_ would have
written some down.  Was this used into Tlinkit territory at all, do you
think?  This was a Boston-based Jargon; and the story gives deeper
expression of the interrelationship between the Jargon and "the
Company".  Interesting.

I'm trying to figure out from the quote when the Kaigani Jargon was
supplanted by Chinook; fifty years ago when?