There were some interesting people here, "Old Lizotte" and his wife in particular.

He was another of the "Ancient Mariners" who had left Lachine fifty-five years before with Governor Simpson--a man still of unshaken nerve and muscles as hard as iron.

One by one these old voyageurs are passing away, and with them and their immediate successors the tradition perishes.
There was another character on the Vermilion stage, namely, old King Beaulieu.

His father was a half-breed who had been brought up amongst the Dog Ribs and Copper Indians, and some eighty years back had served as an interpreter at Fort Chipewyan.

It was he who at Fort Wedderburne sketched for Franklin with charcoal on the floor the route to the Coppermine River, the sketch being completed to and along the coast by Black Meat, an old Chipewyan Indian.