BITTEN BY THE 'ARTIC BUG': Reflections of an RCMP Officer's Northern Life 1944 -1950

"Betty Reid served in the North six years with her R.C.M.P. husband, Jim Reid, in the North West Territories from 1944-1950 ... Jim's job was to uphold the law and provide clearance for the export of furs. He was also appointed Indian Agent. The only other non-native [Aboriginal peoples, First Nations] families were those of the Hudson's Bay Company Factor, an independent fur trader and later, a Game Warden. Forget running water; forget electric lights, forget schools, churches, supermarkets. Conditions were primitive to say the least ... Most of all the writer fell in love with the native people - fur trappers, and their families from the Slavey Band whose cultural beliefs and moral values built in them a 'great integrity and dignity of spirit'."--back cover.