Book extract:

"It is trite to say it, but nonetheless, how times have changed! The Indians ranged all over the lands where we cut. I recall one day at the Bark Lake post when there appeared up the lake a big flotilla of canoes. As it came near one could distinguish their identity: these were Abenaki from the upper headwaters of the Ottawa, whole families of them, coming to trade at our post. Music filled the air from gramophones in some of the canoes."