The New North - Agnes Deans Cameron

Pleasant prairies of the Peace—We tramp a hundred miles—The Angelus at Lesser Slave—Poole coats and Norfolk shooting-jackets—Roast duck galore—Alec Kennedy of the Nile—Louise the Wetigo, she ate nineteen

[CHAPTER XXIII: LESSER SLAVE LAKE TO EDMONTON]

Jim wins: Allie Brick can't run—100,000,000 acres of wheat-land—Jilly-Loo bird still lacks a rib—100 moose in one month—Peripatetic judges but no prisoners—The best-tattooed man in the Province of Alberta—The-Man-Who-Goes-Around-and-Helps

[CHAPTER XXIV: HOMES AMONG THE YELLOW WHEAT]

Edmonton again—Wyllie goes out on the Long Journey—Donaldson killed by a walrus—Two drowned in the Athabasca—Steel kings and iron horses—Wheat-plains the melting-pot of a New Nation

[ROUTES OF TRAVEL]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[A magnificent trophy]
[Map showing the Author's Route]
[Sir Wilfred Laurier]
[Earl Grey, Governor-General of Canada]
[Winnipeg, the Buckle of the Wheat Belt]
[The Canadian Women's Press Club]
[A section of Edmonton]
[The Golden Fleece of Saskatchewan]
[Irrigation ditch, Calgary, Alberta]
[A Waldorf-Astoria on the prairie's edge]
[Athabasca Landing]
[Necessity knows no law at Athabasca]
[The Missionary Hymnal for the Indians]
[C.C. Chipman, Commissioner of the H.B. Co.]
[A "sturgeon-head" on the Athabasca]
["Farewell, Nistow!"]
[Grand Rapids, on the Athabasca River]
[Portage at Grand Rapids Island]
[Our transport at Grand Rapids Island]
[Cheese-shaped nodules, Grand Rapids Island]
[Scouts of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police]
[Towing the wrecked barge ashore]
[The scow breaks her back and fills]
[Miss Gordon, a Fort McMurray trader]
[The steamer Grahame]
[An oil derrick on the Athabasca]
[Tar banks on the Athabasca]
[Fort Chipewyan, Lake Athabasca]
[Three of a kind]
[Woman's work of the Far North]
[Lake Athabasca in winter]
[Bishop Grouard]
[The modern note-book]
[Tepee of a Caribou-eater Indian]
[A bit of Fond du Lac]
[Birch-barks at Fond du Lac]
[Fond du Lac]
[Father Beibler carrying water to a dying Indian]
[Smith's Landing]
[A transport between Fort Smith and Smith's Landing]
[Lord Strathcona, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company]
[The world's last buffalo]
[Tracking a scow across mountain portage]
[The "red lemol-lade" boys]
[Salt beds]
[Unloading at Fort Resolution]
[Coming to "take Treaty" on Great Slave Lake]
[On the Slave]
[Dogs cultivating potatoes]
[David Villeneuve]
[Hudson's Bay House, Fort Simpson]
[A Slavi family at Fort Simpson]
[A Slavi type from Fort Simpson]
[Interior of St. David's Cathedral]
[Fort Simpson by the light of the Aurora]
[Indians at Fort Norman]
[Roman Catholic Church at Fort Norman]
[The ramparts of the Mackenzie]
[Rampart House on the Porcupine near the Mackenzie mouth]
[A Kogmollye family]
[Roxi and the Oo-vai-oo-ak family]
[Farthest North football]
[Two spectators at the game]
[An Eskimo exhibit]
[Constable Walker and Sergeant Fitzgerald in Eskimo togs]
[Two wise ones]
[A Nunatalmute Eskimo family]
[Cribbage-boards of walrus tusks]
[Useful articles made by the Eskimo]
[Home of Mrs. Macdonald]
[Eskimo kayaks at the Arctic edge]
[A wise man of the Dog-Ribs]
[A study in expression]
[We tell the tale of a whale]
[Two little ones at Herschel Island]
[Breeding grounds of the seal]
[The Keele party on the Gravel River]
[The first typewriter on Great Slave Lake]
[The bell at Fort Rae mission]
[The musk-ox]
[A meadow at McMurray]
[Starting up the Athabasca]
[On the Clearwater]
[Evening on the Peace]
[Our lobsticks on the Peace]
[The chutes of the Peace]
[Pulling out the Mee-wah-sin ]
[The flour mill at Vermilion-on-the-Peace]
[Articles made by Indians]
[The Hudson's Bay Store]
[Papillon, a Beaver brave]
[Going to school in winter]
[My premier moose]
[Beaver camp, on Paddle River]
[The site of old Fort McLeod]
[Jean Baptiste, pilot on the Peace]
[Fort Dunvegan on the Peace]
[Fort St. John on the Peace]
[Where King was arrested]
[Alec Kennedy with his two sons]
[Cannibal Louise, her little girl and Miss Cameron]
[A Peace River Pioneer]
[Three generations]
[A family at the Lesser Slave]
[A one-night stand]
[A rye field in Brandon, Manitoba]
[Charles M. Hays, President of the Grand Trunk Railway ]
[William Mackenzie, President of the Canadian Northern Railway ]
[Donald D. Maun, Vice-president of the Canadian Northern Railway]
[William Whyte, Second Vice-president of the Canadian Pacific Railway]
[In the wheat fields]
[Hon. Frank Oliver, Minister of the Interior]
[Threshing grain]
[Doukhobors threshing flax]
[Sir William Van Horne, first President of the Canadian Pacific Railway]

Map of the Author's Route