The New North

A woman undertakes an extended journey from the prairie wheat-belt northward along rivers and lakes to Arctic coasts, recording landscapes, river navigation, rapids, and frontier settlements. She sketches encounters with Indigenous communities, missionaries, traders, and lawmen, and notes daily routines, foodways, crafts, and seasonal rhythms under the midnight sun. Natural history and resource accounts recur, from caribou and musk-ox to whales and fisheries, alongside practical travel episodes—steamboats, portages, and wrecks. Interspersed observations, photographs, and anecdotes convey the challenges and social textures of life on Canada’s northern routes.