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THE NEW NORTH
_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.
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