...interested Northern Ontario's past had, at some point, to visit the fine regional history collection of the Brodie Street Library in Thunder Bay. There, in addition to the great classics of the fur trade and continental exploration, were to be found many lesser known and obscure works, such as Walpole Roland's Algoma West (1887). The novice seeking an overview might find himself turning to J. P. Bertrand's Highway of Destiny (1959), a sound general interpretation of the expansion of the natural resource frontier in this part of Canada, both before and after Confederation. Bertrand's book was a good companion to other recent scholarly works on the area such as Elizabeth Arthur's Thunder Bay District, 1821-1892 (Toronto: Champlain Society, 1973) and the official history of the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests by R. S. Lambert and Paul Pross, Renewing Nature's Wealth (Toronto: Ontario Department of Lands and Forests, 1967). Bertrand's text was one with a large sweep, but regionally valuable by virtue of the writer's great insider knowledge.

Joseph Placide Theodore Bertrand (1880-1964) hailed from the Ottawa Valley and came to the Lakehead area in 1900 where he entered...

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