Cameron, Agnes Deans - The New North Being Some Account of a Woman's Journey through Canada to the Arctic - 1910

Captivating travelogue of a voyage into Canada's Arctic regions

Cameron, Agnes Deans
The New North Being Some Account of a Woman's Journey through Canada to the Arctic
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1910 [First Edition]

8vo (23.5x16 cm); (i)-xix, [1], 1-398, [2] pp., frontispiece, + 1 map leaf. Numerous illustrations to text. Bound in green ribbed cloth with map pictorial panel to front, gilt lettering to front and spine.

Condition: Good. Head and tail of spine bumped and tear to cloth on rear cover, o/w a clean unmarked copy.

Captivating travelogue by Cameron, a British-Columbian journalist, who undertook a 10,000-mile journey through the untamed wilderness of northern Canada in 1908 at the age of forty-five and became the first white woman to reach the Canadian arctic overland. She travelled from Chicago to the Arctic Ocean by way of Winnipeg, Calgary, Athabasca, Great Slave Lake, and the Mackenzie River, returning via the Peace River and Lesser Slave Lake. Cameron’s narrative blends vivid descriptions of the landscape with keen observations on the social, economic, and political conditions of the areas she visited. She reflects on Indigenous cultures, the burgeoning fur trade, and the potential for development in the region, presenting an optimistic vision of Canada’s northern potential. As one of the first women to explore and write about this part of the world, Cameron’s perspective was both groundbreaking and refreshing, offering a blend of admiration and critique. Her photographs and descriptions of traveling the length of the Athabasca River from Athabasca Landing to Fort Chipewyan are particularly valuable.