Through the Mackenzie Basin

At Athabasca Landing, a 160-foot steamer lies rotting on its skids, useless in the shallow river, while a gas flame burns day and night at the gateway to the North. The treaty party must go on without it.

In the spring of 1899, Charles Mair joins Mr. Laird’s expedition from Edmonton toward the Athabasca and Peace rivers, through a country of spruce forest, muskeg and swift, unfamiliar waters. Delayed supplies, rain and missing trackers threaten the schedule; still, some fifty people set out in two scows and a York boat, with a great river to struggle against and treaty business waiting farther north. What will the journey demand before they reach their destination?

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