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The Old Way North: Following the Oberholtzer-Magee Expedition

Lily Gontard

In the preface to The Old Way North: Following the Oberholtzer-Magee Expedition (Borealis Books), David F. Pelly laments that most people know about Arctic explorers such as John Franklin, but few know of the adventurers who explored the inland reaches of Canada. Well, one reason is that Ernest C. Oberholtzer didn’t have a Lady Franklin taking care of promotion and marketing on the home front. Nor was Oberholtzer a compelling chronicler. His journal entries, which give information on his adventures canoeing through northern Manitoba and Nunavut in 1912, are uninspired; Oberholtzer, it seems, was a man of few words. There’s an awful lot to learn about the region from this book. But what trans

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Lily Gontard

Lily Gontard is a writer whose fiction, poetry and non-fiction have appeared in magazines including The Puritan, Cirque and Event. She lives in Whitehorse.


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