By canoe and dog-train among the Cree and Salteaux Indians. Egerton Ryerson Young AND illustrated By: Mark Guy Pearse
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ISBN10: 1546699759
ISBN13: 9781546699750
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 15 2017
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.35 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781546699750
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 15 2017
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.35 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
My friend, Mr. Egerton R. Young, has asked me to write a few words of preface to his book. Although he needs no words of mine to introduce him to the people at home as the Canadians call the Motherland, I very gladly comply with his request. It was on a sunny day in the early part of May, 1887, that I met Mr. Young away at Meaford on the shores of Georgian Bay. We passed the river, -crowded with boys and men snatching with leaded hooks at the mullet that were swarming in shoals from Lake Huron, -along by the wharves to the water's edge, and there on the pebble ridge we sat and talked. A simple, honest, straight-forward Methodist preacher, one felt at home with him at once. I found that he had been a Missionary for many years amongst the Cree and Salteaux Indians away in the Lone Land. I had but to ask a question here and there and sat entranced; the people, the country, the
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