138 FIFTY YEARS IN WESTERN CANADA

week in September to the third in October, during
which he was more at liberty to take outings through
the mountains, and he would then generally improve
his opportunity by scouring the country, in search of
new geographical elements, accompanied by devoted
Indians whose special services he deeply valued.

Morice would reproach himself with ungratefulness
if he were to omit the names of at least the principal
among them: Thomas Thautilh, and his elder brother,
Isaac Qasyak, two excellent fellows, as well as the
latter’s son, John Stené, and his nephews, William and
Thomas Khétloh ; Hobel (Robert) and Duncan Paquette,
Jean-Baptiste Sahid, and young Jean-Marie, the Séka-
Nais, with a few others, who would do for him free of
charge what they would have never attempted for
money for anybody else.

The results of that new kind of exertion have been
not only half a score of good-sized essays and diaries or
journals, but three maps, one of which, published by the
Government of British Columbia, is much more than
regional in import. Another, representing Father
Morice’s discoveries down to 1900 and issued by the
Geographical Society of Neufchatel (Switzerland), had
its merits recognized by being awarded a silver medal
by such a high organization as the Geographical
Society of Paris.

Apart from this distinction and a few lines in the
Catholic Who's Who,’ no recognition of his geogra-
phical work had ever come to his notice’ until a Vic-

2 Article Morice.

* This had been written for some time when the following, which
antedates the two letters hereafter quoted from, was found among Father
Morice’s papers: ‘‘We had a visit recently from Major Aitken, the
Board's British Columbia representative, who incidentally spoke highly
of your geographic work in northern British Columbia.”’ This is dated

Ottawa, 24 July, 1928, and was written by Mr. R. Douglas, M.A., secre-
tary of the Geographical Board of Canada.