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Amazing stories of missionary work in Manitoba north of Lake Winnepeg. The memoir is long but if you can plow through it you'll be so impressed by what Egerton Ryerson Young and other missionaries did in very adverse circumstances. The winter travel was treacherous.

I just finished chapter 9 about winter travel with a dog train. The missionary-author had his own dogs shipped in - St. Bernards and others - as he didn't fare well with the native dogs the tribes used. In addition to his home mission at Norway House, Manitoba, he had other missions to visit such as remote Oxford House and Nelson House. He always had Christian native guides to help him on his winter travels.

I'm in the middle of a long chapter about canoe travel on the lakes in Manitoba.

Just finished chapter 4. The "adventurous journey" took the author and his wife from Hamilton, Ontario by boat to Wisconsin. From there, they went to St. Paul, Minnesota, and north to Winnipeg, Manitoba. They traveled north by boat on the Red River to Lake Winnipeg and their mission at Norway House. I traveled vicariously along with them using Google Maps to chart my journey.

I'm in chapter three now, in which memoir author Egerton Ryerson Young and his newlywed wife are asked to travel west in Canada to work at an already established mission outpost among the native tribes. This was in 1868, so no easy travel arrangements were available. He described it as an "adventurous journey."