This book contains photographs of people and places in the Canadian Far North, taken while Mathers was "on a trip from Edmonton to the mouth of the MacKenzie River". There are a number of images of "Esquimaux" wearing traditional clothing and stone lip ornaments, as well as of Native people carrying out tasks at various forts along the Athabasca and Slave Rivers.
Provides late Victorian perspective on the history of Tsimshian peoples, and the then current challenge of government policies, pressures to surrender lands and community relocation.
2nd edition.