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Article Excerpt
THE OLD WAY NORTH: FOLLOWING THE OBER-HOLTZER-MAGEE EXPEDITION. By DAVID F. PELLY. St. Paul, Minnesota: Borealis Books, 2008. ISBN 978-0-87351-616-7. xvi + 197 p., maps, b&w illus., selected bib., index. Hardbound. US$27.95.
In 1912, a young American graduate of Harvard, Ernest Oberholtzer, along with an Anishinaabe man from the Rainy Lake District of Ontario, named Taytahpahswaywe-tong, but called Billy Magee, made an extraordinary 2000-mile canoe journey beginning at The Pas, Manitoba. They went north up Reindeer Lake to Brochet, through the Barrens, paddling the length of Nueltin Lake and down the Thlewiaza River to Hudson Bay, where they turned south and finally reached Gimli, Manitoba, in a race against the approaching winter. The northern part of the route was unmapped and had been previously travelled mainly by the Chipewyan and Inuit people. It was a time of heroic exploration: Peary had recently claimed to have reached the North Pole, Amundsen had...
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