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Down the Mackenzie and up the Yukon in 1906

Chapter 2: PREFACE
By Elihu Stewart
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The narrative recounts a firsthand expedition along northern river routes, combining travel description with practical assessment of terrain, forests, and settlement potential. It records scenes at trading posts and mission stations, encounters with local Indigenous communities, and photographic and mapped material used to illustrate the journey. Interwoven are observations on soil and timber suitability for development, commercial prospects, and public-health shortcomings, accompanied by recommendations for systematic surveys and improved medical services to better support remote communities.

PREFACE

The following narrative is based on a report which I made to the Government of Canada, dated November 16, in the year 1906, shortly after my return to Ottawa from the far North.

In writing this report I had to resist the temptation to give many details which were present in my mind at the time but which would be scarcely warranted in an official document. In the following pages I have allowed myself more latitude and have also included several illustrations, the greater number of them being photographs taken by myself. Many of these were snapshots taken from the deck of one or other of the steamers on which I was a passenger, and for that reason are not as good as when time exposures were obtained.

I cannot allow this little narrative to pass out of my hands without expressing heartfelt thanks for the unfailing kindness and hospitality, as well as assistance, that I received from the officials of the Hudson Bay Company, as well as from the agents of the independent trading Companies, from the Missionaries, and also the natives of the country.