The Dorion family settled in.

Marie’s skills were immediately useful in a context where Indigenous trade relationships and inter-cultural communication were constant requirements.

Pierre’s interpreting work continued.

The children were, presumably, alive and recovering from a journey that had pushed every member of the expedition to some kind of limit.

The War of 1812 was already underway, though news traveled slowly to this distant corner of the continent.

The strategic implications for the fort would become apparent over the next two years, as the North West Company moved to acquire the post and as the commercial logic of Astor’s enterprise was disrupted by the outbreak of hostilities between the United States and Great Britain.