Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" of the North-West

The author recounts travels and recollections of life in the early Northwest, offering narrative episodes of riverside and canoe journeys, fur-trade posts, mission schools, and frontier settlements. Vivid sketches present Indigenous communities, traders, and settlers at fairs, social functions, and encampments, while chronicling practical matters of travel, household management, and seasonal labor. Interspersed commentary reflects on cultural exchange and the growing pressures on native lifeways as settlement expands, balancing anecdotal incidents, landscape description, and domestic detail to convey the rhythms and challenges of frontier existence.