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THE NEW NORTH

Being Some Account of a Woman's Journey through Canada to the Arctic

BY AGNES DEANS CAMERON

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 fullheart, I wish to thank all the splendid people of the North who, bygiving me so freely information and photographs, and chapters out oftheir own lives, have facilitated the writing of this story. For theirspontaneous kindness to me and mine no acknowledgment that I can heremake is adequate. What we feel most strongly we cannot put into words.

AGNES DEANS CAMERON.

August, 1909.

CONTENTS

The Mendicants leave Chicago—The invisible parallel of 49 where theeagle perches and makes amorous eyes at the beaver—Union Jack floats onan ox-cart—A holy baggage-room—Winnipeg, the Buckle of theWheat-Belt—The trapper and the doctor—Mrs. Humphry Ward speaks—BoyMakers of Empire—The vespers of St. Boniface

The 1,000-mile wheat-field—Calgary-in-the-Foothills—Edmonton, the endof steel—The Brains of a Trans-Continental—Browning on theSaskatchewan—East Londoners in tents—Our outfit—A Waldorf-Astoria inthe wilderness—The lonely cross of the Galician—Height of Land—Sergeant Anderson, R.N.W.M.P., the sleuth of Lesser Slave

Athabasca Landing, the Gateway of the North—English gives place toCree—Limit of the Dry Martini—Will the rabbits run?—The womanprinter—Hymn-books by hand in the Cree syllabic—Baseball evenhere—Rain and reminiscences—The World's Oldest Trust

"Farewell, Nistow!"—The rainy deck of a "sturgeon head" under atarpaulin—Drifting by starlight—The wild geese overhead—Forty-footgas-spout at the Pelican—The mosquito makes us blood-brothers—Fourdays on our Robinson Crusoe Island in the swirlingAthabasca—Nomenclature of the North—Sentinels of the Silence

The Go-Quick-Her takes the bit in her mouth—Mallards on thehalf-shell—We set the Athabascan Thames afire—Sturgeon-head breaks herback on the Big Cascade—Fort McMurray—A stranded argosy, wreckage onthe beach—Miss Christine Gordon, the Free Trader—A land flowing withcoal and oil and gas and tar, timber and lime

Old Fort Chipewyan—In the footsteps of Mackenzie and Sir JohnFranklin—Sir John turns parson—Grey Nuns and brown babies—Where grewthe prize wheat of the Philadelphia Centennial—Militant missionariesfight each other for souls—The strong man Loutit—Wyllie at theforge—An electric watch-maker—Where the Gambel sparrow builds—"Out ofold books"