Overland scientific expedition in mid 1840s written by a staunch Anglican gentleman, concerned about the spiritual welfare of natives but fairly bigoted about it.
In Search of the Magnetic North: a Soldier-Surveyor’s Letters from the North-West 1843-1844.
Lefroy, John Henry. Edited by George F. G. Stanley. Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada, 1955.
- Arctic Reading: Inuit and other indigenous people
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In Search of the Magnetic North: A Soldier-Surveyor’s Letters from the North-West, 1843-1844.
Lefroy, John Henry. Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada, 1955.
- 1843-44 British Surveying Expedition for Magnetic North.
- Arctic Reading: Canada
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p. xi, re an English soldier-scientist and surveyer assigned to Toronto: …with an English gentlemen’s sincere belief in the inevitable superiority of things English….. He loved his Church; and his interest in missionary work never diminished throughout a career which lasted seventy-eight years.