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ISBN 1-894294-57-2
128 pages
5 x 7.5
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$14.95 |
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IN QUEST OF FUR
By PHILIP SMITH
In 1909, fur buyer William Oliver Kennedy Ross traveled overland from his home
in Quebec City, along the North Shore of the St. Lawrence into Southern Labrador
and across the Strait of Belle Isle to the west coast of Newfoundland. His main
purpose was to purchase furs from local trappers and middlemen. During his
travels, he occasionally bought other items from local people including
heirlooms that today would be considered antiques.
This journal represents a day-by-day narrative of his activities over a period
of nearly three months and a distance of some 1,600 kilometers. He departs
Quebec City in mid-March, and by early June, he is ice-bound in the Bay of
Islands in Western Newfoundland waiting anxiously to cross the Gulf to Labrador
and return home. In Quest of Fur, records the incidents Kennedy observed and the
many people he encountered on his travels.
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