To the Arctic by Canoe 1819-1821

by Houston, C. Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780773512221
• ISBN10: 0773512225
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-11-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ

Summary

When supplies ran out, the return trek across the Barrens became one of the most tragic incidents in the history of Arctic exploration. Robert Hood was one of those who perished on this trip. Weakened by starvation, he was shot through the head by a member of the party turned cannibal. A highly sensitive and educated man with a painter's eye for detail, Hood was an astute observer of the political and social ways of the North. The journal reveals his awareness, unusual in his time, of the adverse effects on Native peoples and their environment of the coming of the Europeans. Hood's paintings capture the beauty as well as the harshness of the North. His bird paintings in particular are of special artistic and historical interest.

Author Biography

C. Stuart Houston is Professor of Medical Imaging, University of Saskatchewan.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Maps	p. ix
Foreword	p. xv
Preface	p. xvii
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Previous Use of Portions of Hood's Journal	p. xxi
Introduction	p. xxiii
Narrative of the Proceedings of an Expedition on Discovery in North America
Gravesend to York Factory	p. 5
York Factory to Cumberland House	p. 21
Cumberland House and Pasquia Hills	p. 43
Account of the Cree Indians	p. 71
The Buffalo, Climate, Aurora Borealis, Magnetic Phenomena	p. 91
Cumberland House to Fort Chipewyan	p. 105
Fort Chipewyan to Fort Enterprize	p. 123
Fort Enterprize to Point Lake	p. 145
The Death of Hood	p. 157
Hood's Paintings: Commentary	p. 167
The Men of the Expedition	p. 189
Selected Bibliography	p. 207
Index	p. 209
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