"Published by the Bishop of Moosonee as the 1973 Autumn Issue of The Northland". -- inside front cover.
"Copyright Jan. 17, 1974". -- inside front cover.
"The author, Hugo Muller, was not born a Canadian. He is a native of Holland, coming to Canada over twenty years ago. His first contact with the native peoples of Canada took place as he worked for the Hudson's Bay Company in Northern Quebec. He later studied theology and was ordained a priest of the Anglican Church of Canada. In this capacity he has been in constant touch with the Cree people in Northern Quebec". -- Foreword.
"Following are some songs and stories of what happens when twentieth century progress hits the traditional hunting life of a people known for their passive and gentle ways, their politeness and reticence, which we often find hard to understand. Names have been changed, but all events relate to actual happenings". -- Intro.
Contents: Foreword / J.A. Watton, Bishop of Moosonee -- Introduction dated Spring 1973 / [Hugo Muller] -- Contents -- 25 poems.
"Published by the Bishop of Moosonee as the 1973 Autumn Issue of The Northland". -- inside front cover.
"Copyright Jan. 17, 1974". -- inside front cover.
"The author, Hugo Muller, was not born a Canadian. He is a native of Holland, coming to Canada over twenty years ago. His first contact with the native peoples of Canada took place as he worked for the Hudson's Bay Company in Northern Quebec. He later studied theology and was ordained a priest of the Anglican Church of Canada. In this capacity he has been in constant touch with the Cree people in Northern Quebec". -- Foreword.
"Following are some songs and stories of what happens when twentieth century progress hits the traditional hunting life of a people known for their passive and gentle ways, their politeness and reticence, which we often find hard to understand. Names have been changed, but all events relate to actual happenings". -- Intro.
Contents: Foreword / J.A. Watton, Bishop of Moosonee -- Introduction dated Spring 1973 / [Hugo Muller] -- Contents -- 25 poems.
Photo consists of clergy posing at the front of the sanctuary of a church.
Photo includes (Back row, L to R): Rev. W.H. Gibson, South Porcupine; Rev. Canon Cyril Elliott, Virginiatown; Rev. W. Cook, King Kirkland; Chancellor S.A. Caldbick, Q.C.; Rt. Rev. C.C. Robinson, Bishop of Moosonee; Rev. Canon Harold Shail, Kapuskasing; Rev. David Barclay, Church-on-Wheels; and Rev. Roy Nixon, Diocese of Algoma. (Front row L to R): Rev. D. Wilkinson, Kirkland Lake; Rev. W. Kitto, First United Church, Timmins; Rev. John Newsham, Diocese of Toronto; Very Rev. G.C.C. Scovil, Dean of Moosonee; Rev. J. Mather, Schumacher; Rev. Hugo Muller, Swastika; Rev. Morgan Bebee, Iroquois Falls. Not seen: Rev. J.H. Watson, Noranda.
Photo consists of a group photo of the clergy and delegates at the 36th Synod, including: (starting with first row, left to right) the Rev. Johnson Ouskan (Thompson), Lay Canon Adam Dick (Ilford), Canon Jim Whitford (Pine Falls), Dean Paul Carr, Bishop Allan, Archdeacon Terry McNear (Thompson), Archdeacon Gary Woolsey, Canon Robert Rolls (Dryden), Rev. Allan Hartley (Big Trout Lake), Rev. Clark Day (Churchill), Bill Paddock (Churchill), Canon Ebert Hobbs (Director of Anglicans in Mission, Toronto), Harold Maddison (Thompson), Rod Spence (Split Lake), Ruth Watson (Keewatin), Vera Parker (Rainy River), Charles Arthurson, Mary Mennell (Dryden), Margaret Etter, Rev. Garwood Russell (Keewatin), Isiah Nothing (Bearskin lake), Thaddeus Cutfeet (BTL), Mike Anderson (Kasabanaka), Ben Arthurson (Norway House), Charlie Brooks (Atikokan), Jim Twist (Area Director Anglicans in Mission, Winnipeg), Rev. Hugo Muller (Fort Frances), Bob Faykes (Atikokan), Rev. Garth Clifford (Atikokan), Rev. Norman Dunstan (Fort Alexander), Rev. Doug Fenton (Ear Falls), Tommy Beardy (Muskrat Dam), Rev. Moses Angees (Wunnumin), Rev. Alex Fox (Bearskin Lake), Rev. William Winter (Kingfisher Lake), and Ananias Winter (Angling Lake).
"These songs and stories tell what happens when twentieth century progress hits the traditional hunting life of a people known for their passive and gentle ways, their politeness and reticence, which we often find hard to understand. Names have been changed, but all events relate to actual happenings. I want to express my thanks to those who have helped with suggestions, and who have supplied photographs. The pictures in many instances are not professional but do give a view of some of the people and places in the text. The children and adults in these photographs have no connection in any way with the events related". -- Preface.
Contains 82 poems by Hugo Muller, a priest of the Anglican Church of Canada.
"Copyright August 8, 1974. Hugo Muller, 38 Frederic Hebert (P.O. Box 326), Noranda, Quebec". -- inside front cover.
"Cover Design By: Dian Watton". -- inside front cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
"There are many ways in which you can come to the corner of North-Western Quebec which has opened up during the last quarter century .... There is yet another way of coming into that country: the way I came -- as a priest, to minister to both the people in the new towns and the people who were there already, before the towns. .... This volume, then, is not really a study of Indian people. It has been observed, particularly in Indian circles, that everybody is always studying the Indian, they may, in fact, well be the most studied people in the world, and there are few signs of this trend slackening off to any perceptible degree. What follows, then, is more of a study of 'western' attitudes, if I may put it that way, and not really a 'study' but rather a look, a few questions and ideas which came to me through a number of incidents which made me think". -- p. 1, 3.
Contents: Dedication -- Disqualifying the Author -- "Why don't you ?" -- "Why don't you: Live like us ?" -- "Why don't you: develop, produce DO something with it ?" -- Why don't you: stand on your own feet ?" -- Why don't you: get ahead ?" -- "Why don't you: Move into civilization ?" -- The Comfortable Canadian Hypocrisy -- What Can We Do ? -- The Church -- I Wish You Knew Suzanne -- A Few Suggestions for Reading.
Author is a priest of the Anglican Church of Canada. Chapter one includes biographical information about the author.
OTCH has 2 copies. Copy one, formerly the property of Beryl Morris, has several annotations and underlinings in ink but also the only one of the two copies that includes Copyright and Cover Design info on inside front cover. Copy two appears identical (sold by Anglican Book Centre for $3.50 in March 1976) but without copyright and other information. Copy two may be second printing.