"Old employee, formerly of the Hudson Bay Company" – to Jeff Kopp

[Jeffrey Kopp]

Whoa, great detective work, guys!

When did the "Our Roots" project appear, and how is it related to
canadiana.org?

Regards,

Jeff

P.S. Perhaps I should put up the "Houts mystery dictionary" again for
possible identification; Francisc never got to see it. and am not sure
Leanne has--although it is almost certainly from outside her neighborhood
(looks like southern Puget Sound).

At 02:55 AM 05/30/05, Francisc Czobor wrote:
>Klahowya!
>
>I wonder to be the first one to notice that this word list with anonymous
>author is identical with that of A.C. Anderson (San Francisco, California:
>J.J. LeCount, 1857). Even the titles are identical: "Chinook Jargon:
>Language used by the Different Indian Tribes, French and Half-Breeds of
>Frazer's River, Puget Sound and Surrounding Country, as the Means of
>Conversation with Americans". The photocopy of Anderson's wordlist is
>available on-line at the following website:
>
>http://www.ourroots.ca/e/viewpage.asp?ID=215971&size=2
>(Hayash mersi to Leanne Riding for the link!!)

...

>Thus we have here another lineage of CJ dictionaries, distinct from
>the "Gibbs-Shaw-Gill lineage". It is less elaborate, with few examples and
>no etymologies, but plenty of typos.
>However, they are valuable since they provide words not found in the
>classical "Gibbs-Shaw-Gill lineage"-dictionaries (like the Salishan
>Stowbelow for "North" and Stegwaak for "South", some animal names, incl.
>birds, etc.)
>
>Mesika Elitee,
>Francisc
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