By the end of July they had gone over the dangerous Fur traders' route and passing over four or five hundred miles reached Fort William, near Lake Superior.

But their journey was not one-half over.

Along the base of the rugged shores of Lake Superior, through the St.Mary's River, down the foaming Sault and then along the shores of Georgian Bay, they paddled their way to Penetanguishene.

From this point they crossed southward to Holland Landing, which is forty miles north of Toronto, and arrived at their destination on the 5th of September.
It is hard to find a parallel for such a journey.

They were a large body, made up of men, women, and children, continuously journeying for eighty-two days, through an unsettled and barren country, running dangerous rapids, and exposed to storms with a poorly organized commissariat, and under fear of pursuit by the agents of Lord Selkirk, to whom many of them were personally bound.