: The New North by Cameron Agnes Deans - Mackenzie River (N.W.T.) Description and travel; Northwest Canadian Description and travel; Cameron Agnes Deans 1865-1912 Travel Northwest Canadian

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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

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

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

"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

NINETY MILES OF RAPIDS

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"

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

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