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239( Notesto Chapters of the Bookand to ~~an 's Field NotesABBREVIATIONS:AATC Alberta and Arctic Transportation CompanyACC/GSA Anglican Church of Canada/General SynodArchivesAGNRC Archives of the Grey Nuns Regional Centre,EdmontonCPRCanadian Pacific RailwayGSCI Gwich'in Social and Cultural Institute,YellowknifeHBC Hudson's Bay CompanyPAM, HBCA Provincial Archives of Manitoba, Hudson'sBay Company ArchivesNAC National Archives of Canada , OttawaNWMP North-West Mounted PoliceNWT Northwest TerritoriesNWC North West CompanyRNWMP Royal North-West Mounted PoliceRCMP Royal Canadian Mounted PoliceRGSRoyal Geographical Society, London(1852-1933) wrote moralistic essays and sermons, romancesand short stories, poetry, literary criticism, and travel sketches,including Camp Fires and Guide Posts (1921), They were "distinguishedfor their graceful style, but representative of theVictorian standards of taste" (Who 2: 1445-46; james Hart879), Those standards were upheld through Van Dyke'smembership in the last American generation to championIdeality. Through many publications, including the magazine,Outlook, this group aimed to "prolong the tradition ofAlnerican Idealism by presenting a unified front to the materialismof the late nineteenth century, resentful of the claims ofthe realists" (Spiller et. al. I: 809). His first book, The Reali!y ofReligion (1884), "presages his lifelong attempt to fuse religionand practical, everyday living in a keen personal enjoyment oflife" (Herzberg et. aI., II74). (Although in Chpt 24 Vyvyan usesthe term "Idealism" to describe a quality in Lazarus Sittichinliwhich she cannot otherwise identify, she does not seem to havethis tradition in mind.)CHAPTER 2: WE PLAN THE JOURNEYCHAPTER 1: DREAMING OF THE JOURNEYHenryvan DykeAlnerican Presbyterian minister, professor of EnglishLiterature at Princeton University, editor, and author of fortyfourbooks between 1884 and 1927, Henry Van DykeMr A. Brabant, the ntanaging director of the Alberta andArctic Transportation COIIlpany LintitedAngus Brabant (1866-1928) joined the HBC as an apprenticeclerk in 1886. After serving at Manitoba House, CumberlandHouse, and Fort Smith, he became inspector of the Athabascadistrict in 1905. He was manager of the Mackenzie River