The world cannot sneer at me, for records have been kept almost since the day away back in the seventeenth century when Prince Rupert landed with his first shipload of gentlemen adventurers.

They intermarried with our splendid Crees--those first wanderers from the best families of Europe.

They formed the English-Cree half-breed.
Prince Rupert himself had five children that can be traced to him.

Le Chevalier Grosselier had nine.

And so it went on for a hundred years, the best blood in England giving birth to a new race among the Crees, and the best of France sowing new generations among the Chippewyans on their way up from Quebec.
"And for another hundred years and more the English-Cree half-breed and the French-Chippewyan half-breed have been meeting and intermarrying, forming the 'blood,' until in all this Northland scarce a man or a woman cannot call back to names that have long become dust in history.
"From the blood of some mighty king of France--of some splendid queen--has come Jean Croisset.