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

REID, Betty

ISBN 10: 1896331556 / ISBN 13: 9781896331553

Published by White Mountain Publications Inc., New Liskeard, Onterio, 2003

About this Item

Pictorial photo of Northern Lights on front cover. Cover and spine print are white. ink date on inner front cover. Sound and except for signature otherwise unmarked. 133 pages including index. Also has laid-in letter to previous owner fron author's daughter.

Seller Inventory # 008363

Bibliographic Details

• Title: BITTEN BY THE 'ARTIC BUG': Reflections of an RCMP Officer's Northern Life 1944 -1950
• Publisher: White Mountain Publications Inc., New Liskeard, Onterio
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1896331556
• ISBN 13: 9781896331553
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Photo - Illustrated
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: by Authors
• Seller catalogs:
  • Life Style
  • General Reference
  • Biography

About this title

Synopsis

"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.