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 The Count de Sainville was born in France. He was in the siege of Paris in 1870/71, serving as a soldier and a sailor. His ancestors lived on the coast of Brittany on land confiscated in 1893. Part of the lands were reclaimed through the fidelity of a tenant. Sainville explained his departure from France as fortunes going against him.((Walter Vanast, editor, “Le Soi-Disant Comte: The Arctic Stay of Count de Sainville, a ruined French aristocrat hoping to get rich at Fort McPherson 1889-1894.” Draft 3, 6 May 2017. McGill University. //Academia,// 2019 website: academia.edu)) Sainville left France for Canada in 1888. In April 1889, he and E.W. Everest left Winnipeg for Edmonton. They had two years of supplies and hoped to follow the Arctic coast from the mouth of the Mackenzie to the Bering Strait. They, or probably Everest, hired Robert Young, an experience voyageur as support. In early summer, the party reached Fort Chipewyan where the party split. Everest and Young turned south while de Sainville continued on to Fort McPherson and arrived there in 1889.((Walter Vanast, “Mary’s Sickly Child, Primary References to the Social Life of Count de Sainville, a French aristocrat (perhaps), at Fort McPherson 1889 – 1894.” McGill University, //Academia,// academia.edu.))  The Count de Sainville was born in France. He was in the siege of Paris in 1870/71, serving as a soldier and a sailor. His ancestors lived on the coast of Brittany on land confiscated in 1893. Part of the lands were reclaimed through the fidelity of a tenant. Sainville explained his departure from France as fortunes going against him.((Walter Vanast, editor, “Le Soi-Disant Comte: The Arctic Stay of Count de Sainville, a ruined French aristocrat hoping to get rich at Fort McPherson 1889-1894.” Draft 3, 6 May 2017. McGill University. //Academia,// 2019 website: academia.edu)) Sainville left France for Canada in 1888. In April 1889, he and E.W. Everest left Winnipeg for Edmonton. They had two years of supplies and hoped to follow the Arctic coast from the mouth of the Mackenzie to the Bering Strait. They, or probably Everest, hired Robert Young, an experience voyageur as support. In early summer, the party reached Fort Chipewyan where the party split. Everest and Young turned south while de Sainville continued on to Fort McPherson and arrived there in 1889.((Walter Vanast, “Mary’s Sickly Child, Primary References to the Social Life of Count de Sainville, a French aristocrat (perhaps), at Fort McPherson 1889 – 1894.” McGill University, //Academia,// academia.edu.)) 
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-The Fort McPherson community included the Anglican Archdeacon MacDonald, the Hudon’s Bay Company trader Hodgson and his wife, missionary Isaac Stringer, de Sainville, and the Catholic Oblate priests Alaire Giroux and Camille Lefebvre. The priests seldom left the mission and competition to win souls was intense between the Catholics and the Anglican missionary. De Sainville was on good terms with them both. The Count taught Stringer to speak French, gave him lectures on astronomy and geography, and they had other similar interests. In February 1890, de Sainville accompanied Reverend Stringer to Lapierre House. Between June and August, Sainville explored the Eskimo Lakes and the nearby region and then he and Stringer went hunting in the Black Mountains. Between 1 and 8 April 1891, Sainville and Father Giroux travelled to and from Lapierre House. In the summer of 1892, Sainville, Hodgson, Jenneth Stuart, and Ezin went down to the mouth of the Mackenzie River to sound the channel and see how far it could be navigated from the coast. It was thought that the Canadian government might send a vessel and Sainville hoped to find employment as the navigator.((Walter Vanast, editor, “Le Soi-Disant Comte: The Arctic Stay of Count de Sainville, a ruined French aristocrat hoping to get rich at Fort McPherson 1889-1894.” Draft 3, 6 May 2017. McGill University. //Academia,// 2019 website: academia.edu)) 
   
 In the summer of 1892, de Sainville spent some time at Fort Simpson. Elizabeth Taylor travelled with de Sainville on a journey from Fort Simpson to Fort McPherson in the summer of 1892. They were on the Hudson Bay Company’s boat //SS Fort Wrigley.// De Sainville told her he had been working for the Hudson Bay Company for two or three years, trading and exploring in the Barren Lands. He had quarrelled with his father and did not have enough money to leave the country. Taylor noted that he was cultured and had a very fine camera.((From a transcript of the diary of Elizabeth Taylor. Intellectual property of Walter Vanast, McGill, //Academia,// academia.edu)) In the summer of 1892, de Sainville spent some time at Fort Simpson. Elizabeth Taylor travelled with de Sainville on a journey from Fort Simpson to Fort McPherson in the summer of 1892. They were on the Hudson Bay Company’s boat //SS Fort Wrigley.// De Sainville told her he had been working for the Hudson Bay Company for two or three years, trading and exploring in the Barren Lands. He had quarrelled with his father and did not have enough money to leave the country. Taylor noted that he was cultured and had a very fine camera.((From a transcript of the diary of Elizabeth Taylor. Intellectual property of Walter Vanast, McGill, //Academia,// academia.edu))
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