CHAPTER XXIV

HOMES AMONG THE YELLOW WHEAT

Edmonton again--Wyllie goes out on the Long Journey--Donaldson killed by a walrus--Two drowned in the Athabasca--Steel kings and iron horses--Wheat-plains the melting-pot of a New Nation

ROUTES OF TRAVEL

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A magnificent trophy Map showing the Author's Route Sir Wilfred Laurier Earl Grey, Governor-General of Canada Winnipeg, the Buckle of the Wheat Belt The Canadian Women's Press Club A section of Edmonton The Golden Fleece of Saskatchewan Irrigation ditch, Calgary, Alberta A Waldorf-Astoria on the prairie's edge Athabasca Landing Necessity knows no law at Athabasca The Missionary Hymnal for the Indians C.C. Chipman, Commissioner of the H.B. Co. A "sturgeon-head" on the Athabasca "Farewell, Nistow!" Grand Rapids, on the Athabasca River Portage at Grand Rapids Island Our transport at Grand Rapids Island Cheese-shaped nodules, Grand Rapids Island Scouts of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Towing the wrecked barge ashore The scow breaks her back and fills Miss Gordon, a Fort McMurray trader The steamer _Grahame_ An oil derrick on the Athabasca Tar banks on the Athabasca Fort Chipewyan, Lake Athabasca Three of a kind Woman's work of the Far North Lake Athabasca in winter Bishop Grouard The modern note-book Tepee of a Caribou-eater Indian A bit of Fond du Lac Birch-barks at Fond du Lac Fond du Lac Father Beibler carrying water to a dying Indian Smith's Landing A transport between Fort Smith and Smith's Landing Lord Strathcona, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company The world's last buffalo Tracking a scow across mountain portage The "red lemol-lade" boys Salt beds Unloading at Fort Resolution Coming to "take Treaty" on Great Slave Lake On the Slave Dogs cultivating potatoes David Villeneuve Hudson's Bay House, Fort Simpson A Slavi family at Fort Simpson A Slavi type from Fort Simpson Interior of St. David's Cathedral Fort Simpson by the light of the Aurora Indians at Fort Norman Roman Catholic Church at Fort Norman The ramparts of the Mackenzie Rampart House on the Porcupine near the Mackenzie mouth A Kogmollye family Roxi and the Oo-vai-oo-ak family Farthest North football Two spectators at the game An Eskimo exhibit Constable Walker and Sergeant Fitzgerald in Eskimo togs Two wise ones A Nunatalmute Eskimo family Cribbage-boards of walrus tusks Useful articles made by the Eskimo Home of Mrs. Macdonald Eskimo kayaks at the Arctic edge A wise man of the Dog-Ribs A study in expression We tell the tale of a whale Two little ones at Herschel Island Breeding grounds of the seal The Keele party on the Gravel River The first typewriter on Great Slave Lake The bell at Fort Rae mission The musk-ox A meadow at McMurray Starting up the Athabasca On the Clearwater Evening on the Peace Our lobsticks on the Peace The chutes of the Peace Pulling out the _Mee-wah-sin_ The flour mill at Vermilion-on-the-Peace Articles made by Indians The Hudson's Bay Store Papillon, a Beaver brave Going to school in winter My premier moose Beaver camp, on Paddle River The site of old Fort McLeod Jean Baptiste, pilot on the Peace Fort Dunvegan on the Peace Fort St. John on the Peace Where King was arrested Alec Kennedy with his two sons Cannibal Louise, her little girl and Miss Cameron A Peace River Pioneer Three generations A family at the Lesser Slave A one-night stand A rye field in Brandon, Manitoba Charles M. Hays, President of the Grand Trunk Railway William Mackenzie, President of the Canadian Northern Railway Donald D. Maun, Vice-president of the Canadian Northern Railway William Whyte, Second Vice-president of the Canadian Pacific Railway In the wheat fields Hon. Frank Oliver, Minister of the Interior Threshing grain Doukhobors threshing flax Sir William Van Horne, first President of the Canadian Pacific Railway

[Illustration: Map of the Author's Route]

THE NEW NORTH

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