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Appendix 1 201Indians will bring their rifles + fishing lines. (4) we walk those6 days while they tow (5) 31bs food a day on average. (6) LaPierre possibly + old Crow certainly can reprovision us so weneed only start with 12 days provisions. (7) More warningsabout our guides Mrs Laura Fraseur was simply left by them + hadto return + do a long trek with a party fro fort Macpherson. At3.45 we went round to store + the Manager Mr Dynes took us arun round Edmonton in circles in his Bewick car. Materialprosperity greenness in towns every little house has water telephoneelectric light. Fine buildings with fine spaces roundthem. Edmonton stands well on the R. Saskatchewan woodedcountry all round. All things cleaner + more comfortable thanours but how much energy goes to that? Pretty well all + thenwhat else is there for the energy. "This country is just full ofoptimism" said Mr Dynes. Tremendously proud of their ownachievements. Evening sat out on Terrace + Gwen sketchedriver + wooded country from upper window. So hot: lovely evening wherelights twinkled aX river.SATURDAY 29 MAYOut to Hudson 's B'9' Co. for rifle ammunition mosquito barbrandy +c +c . Then to Mr Brabant's office to pay for ourtickets + kept theIll to 1st arrangement tho' they tried to haveour berths + meals unpaid for on daily reckoning + as ice islikely + delay we stood firm.Macdonald Hotel. EdmontonAlso to Bank of Montreal + Canadian Bank of COIllIllerce tocash £r60 and £r80 more than we like to carry but there are nobanks or posts up north. Then back to lunch + spent aft. writing +washing. Mr Warner to tea H.A. O. Warner 21 Credit Fancier BuildingEdmonton with photographs papers food list for us + many hints.A curious type loves the wilderness went in as a teacher + failed:teeming with ideas sort of man who would fail: unusual + interestinghas done things: idealistic: has built his own house + boat. In aconfidential pamphlet he lent us a report for W W Cory Deputy Ministerof Dept. of the Interior he discusses fur trade Eskimos,Missions + Police with insight + ability. He says of the church:"Mter 1900 years the church remains today the most impracticalof all our institutions. If a missionary is a zealot he is shorton practicality + if he is not a zealot he generally fails as aIllissionary." ... "Bishop Stringer of Yukon Territory ... said it had taken 30years to Christianize those same Eskimo" (Mackertde delta Eskimo). "30 years.what a lot of energY + thought has been expended to attain this result. And such aresult. For the Christiani!>, of the Eskimo is butthe incorporation of white man'smedicine with his own, taboo added to taboo." He told us much aboutIndians their greed + fawning ways + how the white man hasruined the dignity they had. Told us also of a grizzly Bear thatcame into their camp smelling fried bacon 15 yards away redmouth in huge head. Indian rifle against tree but Indian didnot shoot "him got no shell in it"-they ran aX the stream +Warner followed feeling bear's hot breath behind him. Thebear burnt his foot in cinders + retired. Grizzlies will hardlyever attack. Pouring wet evening we did some repacking. Reporters have put usin to papers in crudest form. Everyone says with a drawl "My but I guessyou're making some trip."SUNDAY 30 MAYTo church at Pro- Cathedral + after Miss Ferguson Bishop Gr'9' 'sgoverness cameto lunch with us. Then we took trams to Capital Hill where wefound dwarf Polygonum leaf of Linnaea borealis + leaves ofPyrola + many other treasures. Cold + win