A little later he came to Montreal, and being a youth of good education and considerable ambition, he easily secured a position and worked himself into the confidence of his employers, obtaining an appointment as factor at Wabinosh House, a Post deep in the wilderness of Lake Nipigon.
In the second year of his reign at Wabinosh--a factor is virtually king in his domain--there came to the Post an Indian chief named Wabigoon, and with him his daughter, Minnetaki, in honor of whose beauty and virtue a town was named in after years.

Minnetaki was just budding into the early womanhood of her race, and possessed a beauty seldom seen among Indian maidens.

If there is such a thing as love at first sight, it sprang into existence the moment John Newsome's eyes fell upon this lovely princess.

Thereafter his visits to Wabigoon's village, thirty miles deeper in the wilderness, were of frequent occurrence.

From the beginning Minnetaki returned the young factor's affections, but a most potent reason prevented their marriage.