“Commissioner Cain and Pilot Maxwell were thus forced to camp in the wilds on the sand beach in the hope that a Provincial air Service plane would locate the position of the Moth within a day or two… That evening after the camp fire had been extinguished and preparations were being made for open air beds, several Indians ploughed through the deep waters and drew up their canoes alongside the Moth which had attracted their attention some miles distant. Little information could be secured from them except that they were Crees and had an encampment on the opposite side of the lake. After an unsatisfactory attempts on their part to explain their coming they hopped into their canoes promising to return the following day. About midday on Thursday, July 11th, the Indians again called, this time six only in number including two new faces, and gradually the occurrence of the night before was being repeated when much to the amazement of Commissioner Cain their leader, the Chief, very unceremoniously extracted from his pocket a letter written by Dr. D.C. Scott, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, in January, 1929, directing him as Chief of the Wendigo Indians to appear at Trout Lake for Treaty negotiations. These then were representatives of the very Indians whose absence from Trout Lake gave the Commissioners much concern and caused considerable discussion.”
Treaty Commissioners Report on the making of the Adhesions to Treaty No. 9, 1929, LAC RG 10 Vol. 6819, file 490-2-17
