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Philip Henry Godsell. Arctic Trader--the account of twenty years with the Hudson's Bay Company
Arctic Trader--the account of twenty years with the Hudson's Bay Company
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
CHAPTER I. Icebergs and Polar Bears
CHAPTER II. The Ways of Chief Factor McTavish
CHAPTER III. The Medicine Murder at Sandy Lake
CHAPTER IV. The Christmas Gathering at Norway House
CHAPTER V. I Am Banished to Pepekwatooce
CHAPTER VI. By Portage, Lake and River
CHAPTER VII. Trailing the Killers of Sap-Was-Te
CHAPTER VIII. The Weetigo of Pepekwatooce
CHAPTER IX. The White Lights
CHAPTER X. Stage, Steamer and Pack-Train
CHAPTER XI. The Untamed Beaver Indians
CHAPTER XII. The Fur Smugglers
CHAPTER XIII “Contraband” of the Forests
CHAPTER XIV. The Peace Pipe at the Stone Fort
CHAPTER XV. The Gathering of the Factors
CHAPTER XVI. Over Mackenzie’s Trail to the Polar Sea
CHAPTER XVII. In Topsy-Turvy Land
CHAPTER XVIII. Corporal Doak Talks of the Cogmollocks
CHAPTER XIX. The Corporal Follows His Last Trail
CHAPTER XX. A Bride Comes to the Northland
CHAPTER XXI. The Land of the Nunatagmuits
CHAPTER XXII. The Stone-Age People
CHAPTER XXIII. Extending Canada’s Frozen Frontier
CHAPTER XXIV. The Winter Trail Across the Rockies
CHAPTER XXV. The Nearing North
APPENDIX
I. FUR PRODUCTION OF CANADA SEASON 1929-1930
II. PRESENT STATE OF THE MUSK-OX AND ESTIMATE OF NUMBERS
III. THE CARIBOU
IV. MINERAL DISCOVERIES IN THE MACKENZIE RIVER AREA AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
V. THE ABORIGINES
INDEX
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Philip Henry Godsell
Published by Good Press, 2021
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All evening we steamed slowly northward through this sea of enchantment, on the lookout for an opening in the ice barrier which barred our progress, always on the watch for polar bears or seals. From the crow’s nest the Captain scanned the serpentine channels through his telescope, shouting down gruff orders to the mate upon the bridge. At last the “Pelican” got her stout oak bows into the channel and commenced her struggle with the ice.
Hour after hour we followed the serpentine channel amongst the monster bergs. Often the vessel would come into sudden contact with a solid mass of ice, quivering from stem to stern with the violence of the impact, while the sailors would come spilling out of the fo’castle, white-faced and very scared.
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