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The New North By: Agnes Deans Cameron (1863-1912) |
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Being Some Account of a Woman's Journey through Canada to the Arctic BY AGNES DEANS CAMERON WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR
Published November, 1909 [Illustration: A Magnificent Trophy] TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER JESSIE ANDERSON CAMERON AND TO ALL THOSE WHO TRY TO LIVE OUT HER SIMPLE RULE "WE MUST JUST TRY TO DO
THE VERY BEST WE CAN" PREFACE It is customary to write a preface. Mine shall be short. Out of a full
heart, I wish to thank all the splendid people of the North who, by
giving me so freely information and photographs, and chapters out of
their own lives, have facilitated the writing of this story. For their
spontaneous kindness to me and mine no acknowledgment that I can here
make is adequate. What we feel most strongly we cannot put into words. AGNES DEANS CAMERON. August, 1909. CONTENTS
CHAPTER I THE MENDICANTS REACH WINNIPEG The Mendicants leave Chicago The invisible parallel of 49 where the
eagle perches and makes amorous eyes at the beaver Union Jack floats on
an ox cart A holy baggage room Winnipeg, the Buckle of the
Wheat Belt The trapper and the doctor Mrs. Humphry Ward speaks Boy
Makers of Empire The vespers of St. Boniface CHAPTER II WINNIPEG TO ATHABASCA LANDING The 1,000 mile wheat field Calgary in the Foothills Edmonton, the end
of steel The Brains of a Trans Continental Browning on the
Saskatchewan East Londoners in tents Our outfit A Waldorf Astoria in
the wilderness The lonely cross of the Galician Height of
Land Sergeant Anderson, R.N.W.M.P., the sleuth of Lesser Slave CHAPTER III ATHABASCA LANDING Athabasca Landing, the Gateway of the North English gives place to
Cree Limit of the Dry Martini Will the rabbits run? The woman
printer Hymn books by hand in the Cree syllabic Baseball even
here Rain and reminiscences The World's Oldest Trust CHAPTER IV DOWN THE ATHABASCA ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE MILES TO GRAND RAPIDS "Farewell, Nistow!" The rainy deck of a "sturgeon head" under a
tarpaulin Drifting by starlight The wild geese overhead Forty foot
gas spout at the Pelican The mosquito makes us blood brothers Four
days on our Robinson Crusoe Island in the swirling
Athabasca Nomenclature of the North Sentinels of the Silence CHAPTER V NINETY MILES OF RAPIDS The Go Quick Her takes the bit in her mouth Mallards on the
half shell We set the Athabascan Thames afire Sturgeon head breaks her
back on the Big Cascade Fort McMurray A stranded argosy, wreckage on
the beach Miss Christine Gordon, the Free Trader A land flowing with
coal and oil and gas and tar, timber and lime CHAPTER VI FORT CHIPEWYAN PAST AND PRESENT Old Fort Chipewyan In the footsteps of Mackenzie and Sir John
Franklin Sir John turns parson Grey Nuns and brown babies Where grew
the prize wheat of the Philadelphia Centennial Militant missionaries
fight each other for souls The strong man Loutit Wyllie at the
forge An electric watch maker Where the Gambel sparrow builds "Out of
old books" CHAPTER VII LAKE ATHABASCA AND ITS FOND DU LAC Farewell to the Mounted Police Our blankets on the deck Fern odours by
untravelled ways Typewriting and kodaking in 20 hours of
daylight Navigating Lake Athabasca by the power o' man A 23 inch
trout First white women at Fond du Lac Carlyle among the Chipewyans, a
Fond du Lac library The hermit padre and the hermit thrush Worn north
trails of the trapper Caribou by the hundred thousands The phalarope
and the suffragette CHAPTER VIII FOND DU LAC TO FORT SMITH World's records beaten on the Athabasca Down the Slave to Smith's
Landing Priests sink in the Rapid of the Drowned The Mosquito
Portage Fort Smith, the new headquarters Lady slippers and
night hawks Steamer built in the wilderness Last stand of the wood
bison The grey wolf persists Fur trade and the silver fox Breeding
pelicans. CHAPTER IX SLAVE RIVER AND GREAT SLAVE LAKE "Red lemol lade" kiddies Tons of crystal salt Great Slave Lake and its
fertile shores Yellow Knife and Dog Rib, subjects of the Seventh
Edward Hay River and its annual mail Ploughing with dogs Bill
balked The Alexandra Falls Bishop Bompas as a surgeon; amputations
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