By Canoe And Dog Train Among The Cree And Salteaux Indians

This late-19th century work by a Christian missionary describes the myriad experiences he and his fellow missionaries had with the Cree and Salteaux people in Canada.?

"By Canoe and Dog Train Among The Cree and Salteaux Indians" is a book about the lives of Christian ministers preaching among the Canadian Indians in the area of Ontario. The book tells the story of Reverend Egerton Ryerson Young, who was pastoring a thriving Methodist church in Hamilton, and his wife, Elizabeth. They both went to serve as missionaries among the Cree and Saulteaux Indians at Norway House and in the North-West Territories north of Lake Winnipeg. This book tells of the adventures, blessings, and hardships the family experienced while sharing the gospel with the Indian people of Canada's northland.

My friend, Mr. Egerton R. Young, has asked me to write a few words of preface to his book. Although he needs no words of mine to introduce him to the people "at home" as the Canadians call the Motherland, I very gladly comply with his request. It was on a sunny day in the early part of May, 1887, that I met Mr. Young away at Meaford on the shores of Georgian Bay. We passed the river, -crowded with boys and men snatching with leaded hooks at the mullet that were swarming in shoals from Lake Huron, -along by the wharves to the water's edge, and there on the pebble ridge we sat and talked. A simple, honest, straight-forward Methodist preacher, one felt at home with him at once. I found that he had been a Missionary for many years amongst the Cree and Salteaux Indians away in " the Lone Land." I had but to ask a question here and there and sat entranced; the people, the country, the

Excerpt from By Canoe and Dog-Train: Among the Cree and Salteaux Indians I felt that he could do for us a work that needed to be done, and that few could do, in renewing the popular interest in foreign missionary enterprise. I had hoped that the Missionary Society might have utilised him for deputation work, and have sent him through the country on this errand. This hope, however, has not been fulfilled. But not the less service has been rendered by Mr. And Mrs. Young, as they have gone from place to place interesting and thrilling tens of thousands by the records of their great success and of God's blessing amongst the Indians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.