Volume I: 1936-38
Distant Summers: P. G. Downes’ Journals of Travels in Northern Canada, 1936-1947.
Downes, Prentice Gilbert. Two Volumes. (Ottawa, CAN: McGahern Stewart Publishing, 2012.
- Hudson's Bay Company.
- Arctic Reading: Canada
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Sleeping Island: The Story of One Man’s Travels in the Great Barren Lands of the Canadian North.
Downes, Prentice Gilbert. New York: Coward-McCann, 1943.
- Hudson's Bay Company.
- Arctic Reading: Canada
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A delightful book of Chipawyan and Cree folklore by a regular American summer visitor in the 1930s and early 40s, a Harvard man (AB ’33) and high school teacher at Belmont Hill School. He loved exploring the Barren Lands during his summer breaks between 1937 and 1947. Shows signs of his fairly wide reading on the history of the region, but none of his own reading on this particular voyage. Since he never overwintered his opportunities for reading were limited.