Northern trader : the last days of the fur trade / H. S. M. Kemp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kemp, H. S. M. (Harold Stuart Miller), 1892-1982, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kemp, H. S. M. (Harold Stuart Miller), 1892-1982.

Kemp, H. S. M.

Fur trade--Saskatchewan.

Fur trade.

Fur traders--Saskatchewan--Biography.

Fur traders.

Saskatchewan--Social life and customs.

Saskatchewan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With previously unpublished photographs, this new edition of Northern Trader is a vivid personal memoir and valuable primary account of the last days of the fur trade. Harold Kemp recounts the routines and rhythms of that long-lost way of life and paints a portrait of the north as a "vast region of infinite allure." In palpable, often gripping prose, Kemp depicts life on the trail in all seasons: paddling and portaging freight canoes, using muzzle-loaders, running on snowshoes to break trails for dogs pulling toboggans, and making camp at the end of an exhausting day. A gifted writer, Kemp creates distinctive portraits of those he encounters, including the Cree people among whom he lived, whose language he spoke, whose skills he admired, and whose customs he respected.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Publishers Preface

Foreword to the 2014 Edition

Chapter One Freeze-up Travel, 1911

Chapter Two The Hudsons Bay Company The Treaty Party, 1911

Chapter three Crees and Chipewyans Northern Missionaries

Chapter four Revillon Freres Cumberland House The Indian Life Lac La Ronge Epidemic

Chapter five North with the Family Of Eggs and Oranges Ile a la Crosse

Chapter six Red Earth Post A Primitive People Birch Bark Canoes A Double Wedding

Chapter seven Of Muzzle-Loaders The Cree Calendar A Birth in the Family A Brush with the Law

Chapter eight The Logjam Indian Honesty Farewell to Red Earth

Chapter nine Muskeg Travel River Travel Stanley Post The Organist

Chapter ten An Ancient Church Of Fish and Foxes The Haggling Indian Kitimakis Winter Trading

Chapter eleven Six Average Dogs Of Balls of Fire and Weetigoes White and Indian Ethics

Chapter twelve Summer Returns Village Life Elsie and her Patients

Chapter thirteen Dangers of the Trail Of P hobias and Strange Beliefs

Chapter fourteen A Holiday and Return A New Look for an Old Church

Chapter fifteen Education, Devotion, and Veneration Joe Visintin and R. D. Brooks

Chapter sixteen Winter Diversions Timber Wolves and a Mad Dog Autumn Fishing

Chapter eighteen 1947 We Revisit Old Scenes And Meet Old Friends

Chapter nineteen Civilization Reaches the North LEnvoi

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780889773288

0889773289

9780889773158

0889773157

OCLC:

908286297