By Canoe And Dog Train

"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.

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To be a missionary to Canadian Indians in the late 1800s meant you had to be brave and relentless. It meant nearly freezing when sleeping outside in 50-below-zero weather. It meant canoeing upstream for hundreds of miles to reach remote Indian villages. It meant eating wild cat and other stranger things, or eating nothing for days at a time. But it also meant you were privileged to present the good news of the true Great Spirit to those who were often misunderstood and mistreated. The adventures in this book are rivaled only by the incredible conversions of those who saw the Creator in nature and then worshipped Him too. You will be challenged and inspired by the results of one man who went where the Lord led, with little regard for himself.

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