The New North
WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR
Published November, 1909
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
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.
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
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
Agnes Deans Cameron
THE NEW NORTH
PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I
THE MENDICANTS REACH WINNIPEG
CHAPTER II
WINNIPEG TO ATHABASCA LANDING
CHAPTER III
ATHABASCA LANDING
CHAPTER IV
DOWN THE ATHABASCA ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE MILES TO GRAND RAPIDS
CHAPTER V
NINETY MILES OF RAPIDS
CHAPTER VI
FORT CHIPEWYAN PAST AND PRESENT
CHAPTER VII
LAKE ATHABASCA AND ITS FOND DU LAC
CHAPTER VIII
FOND DU LAC TO FORT SMITH
CHAPTER IX
SLAVE RIVER AND GREAT SLAVE LAKE
CHAPTER X
PROVIDENCE TO SIMPSON, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILES DOWN THE MACKENZIE
CHAPTER IX
FORT GOOD HOPE ON THE ARCTIC CIRCLE
CHAPTER XII
ARCTIC RED RIVER AND ITS ESKIMO
CHAPTER XIII
FORT MACPHERSON FOLK
CHAPTER XIV
MORALIZING UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN
CHAPTER XV
MAINLY CONCERNING FOOD
CHAPTER XVI
THE TALE OF A WHALE
CHAPTER XVII
SOUTH FROM THE ARCTIC TO CHIPEWYAN
CHAPTER XVIII
TO MCMURRAY AND BACK TO THE PEACE
CHAPTER XIX
UP THE PEACE TO VERMILION
CHAPTER XX
VERMILION-ON-THE-PEACE
CHAPTER XXI
FORT VERMILION TO LESSER SLAVE
CHAPTER XXII
PEACE RIVER CROSSING TO LESSER SLAVE LAKE
CHAPTER XXIII
LESSER SLAVE LAKE TO EDMONTON
CHAPTER XXIV
HOMES AMONG THE YELLOW WHEAT
ROUTES OF TRAVEL
ROUTE FROM EDMONTON TO THE ARCTIC VIA THE ATHABASCA AND MACKENZIE RIVER SYSTEMS.
ROUTE FROM EDMONTON TO PEACE RIVER, VIA THE ATHABASCA RIVER (UP STREAM), LESSER SLAVE RIVER AND LESSER SLAVE LAKE.
PEACE RIVER ROUTES:—(1) FROM PEACE RIVER CROSSING UP TO HUDSON'S HOPE. (2) FROM PEACE RIVER CROSSING DOWN TO FORT CHIPEWYAN.