Excerpt from Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North
The Red River Valley, the Sackatchewan Valley, and British Columbia, are now belted by a great railway, and given to the plough; but in the far north, life is much the same as it was a hundred years ago. There the trapper, clerk, trader, and factor, are cast in the mould of another century, though possessing the acuter energies of this. The voyageur and courier de bois still exist, though, generally, under less picturesque names.
The bare story of the hardy and wonderful career of the adventurers trading in Hudson's Bay, - of...

Excerpt from The Lane That Had No Turning, and Other Tales Concerning the People of Pontiac
Dear Sir Wilfrid Laurier:
Since I first began to write these tales in 1892, I have had it in my mind to dedicate to you the "bundle of life" when it should be complete. It seemed to me - and it seems so still - that to put your name upon the covering of my parcel - as one should say, In care of - when it went forth, was to secure its safe and considerate delivery to that public of the Empire which is so much in your debt.
But with other feelings also, do I dedicate this volume to yourself....