The New North

“I want to go from Chicago to the Arctic by the Mackenzie River,” Agnes Deans Cameron tells Cook & Son. The travel agents can arrange almost anywhere—just not that.

In the early twentieth century, Cameron and her niece leave Chicago in May, bound north through Canada toward the Arctic. They mean to follow the great waterways through wheat country and the fur frontier, where ordinary travel schedules run out and the Hudson’s Bay Company must help with routes, guides, and supplies. Winnipeg offers a first taste of the journey: a bustling city whose muddy soil, a policeman jokes, grows fortunes as well as wheat. Beyond it lies a vast country still being mapped by its travelers and settlers—and a route no tourist office can quite explain. How far north can two determined women go?

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