Timmins Newspaper Index

Porcupine Advance, 16 May 1929, 3, p. 3

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Then there is the interest beâ€" cause the Eskimos are natives of a part of Canada that is little known but that is generally realized to have great possiâ€" bilities." And, thirdly, there is special interest at the present in the Eskimos because of the extended exploring and prospecting being carried on these days in their territory bYy Ontario and cther Canadian firms. Mr. Norman C. Pearce, of The Northern Miner has paid more than on visit to the Eskimo country and has gathered much interâ€" esting information that will be read with much pleasure by readers of The Advance. The following is the article by Mr. Pearce:â€" PP h ) sE C Un sn en ns o "The Eskimos must be happyâ€"mindâ€" ed, because they have eliminated the Eternal Triangle," said Charles Kaedâ€" ing, when I was discussing the Eskimo with him after an air trip into the Barâ€" ren Lands.. It was Sage observation. The Eskimo omits Jealousy from his list of emotions. â€" He is carefree and buoyantly dispositioned. A man ma} have three wives, if he can support that 1 1° 8 2bA CC many, and the wives appear to be quite happy. Frequently wives are traded. A hunter must take a woman along on his hunting expeditions to mend his clothing, to do the cooking and to help him keep the komatik upright in the heavy snowdrifts. His own wife may not be well enough to go out on a three months‘ excursion into the Barren Lands, soâ€"he borrows wife from his best friend, and his best friend proâ€" mises to love, honour and cherish the other while he is away. Sometimes these temporary arrangements become permanent, and all are quite satisfied about it. . "no one could pretend to be an auâ€" thority on the Eskimos who has only spent a couple of weeks in the subâ€"Arcâ€" | tics, but a newspaper man naturally sees and hears things which give some idea of thé life of the natives. "One thing which rather intrigued me was their practice of passing childâ€" ren around. Parents who have four or five children are quite glad to make the gift of an infant, sometimes of child before birth, to 2@ couple not blessed with children. One notices the wonâ€" derful relationship existing between parents and children. The later are yery well behaved, and the older folks have the most kindly feeling toward the younger ones. A trader who has been in the country for 16 years told me that in all that time he had seen only two spankings, and both of them were raâ€" ther light affairs. The Eskimos canno* build up a fortune for his old age, he depends on his children, and that is why every couple, as they advance o_ t A ham M wWaiy v‘V@* J w «oo down the years, like to surround themâ€"| selves with two or three children to look after them. "Some of the few Christianized, realâ€" ly Christianized Eskimos, may have marriage ceremonies, but those who have lived in the country saYy that there is no going to church nor house wedâ€" dings to mark the big day. The young lady simply gathers up her sewing imâ€" plements, her curved knife for cutting skins, and her other little household effects, and goes to the bridegroom‘s "It is considered a very grave off ense in the North to give liquor to an Eskiâ€" mo, and the Mounted Police are very careful to check this practice, heavy fines resulting on conviction. "So far, the Eskimo has had very litâ€" tle contact with the white man, but with the sudden moving in of prospéecâ€" able building up of mines, into the siâ€" | lent land which he has so long conâ€"| sidered his own, the native will come in contact with the white man‘s ways and all the disadvantages of civilization, aâ€" long with its, to him, dubious advantâ€" ages. A native can barely withstand even a common cold, which frequently develops into influenza. Some authoriâ€" ties fear that the native will not be able to withstand the blow of civilization. That may be extreme, It is hoped it is extreme, for it is apparent to anyone who has spent any time in that counâ€" Their Good Nature THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTA fimen. and with the prop- The Advance gave try that exploration will never be carâ€" ried very far in the subâ€"Arctics without the help of the native. He knows the country, is a necessary guide, he knows how to hunt in a country where white men would starve, as some have staryâ€" ed. "Steffanson writing last year said that only a dozen white men in the world knew how to make a snow house. He can make the number twelve and a half now, for I have half a notion how it is done. Really, he can make the number much higher. because prospectors who have spent the winter in the country have been forced to learn what appears to be an easy trick, but which is rather difficult. "Speaking of prospectors to one of | the oldâ€"time traders in the country, the subject of the murder of white men by the Eskimo came up. Murder is so foreign to the carefree disposition of the natives, as we saw it on this flying trip, that we were led to ask about the unhappy incidents that occured in the past. The oldâ€"timer explained that the white man had offended the personal dignity of the native. Or else had threatened it. There was one case of where a white man had whipped, and had pretended to strike Eskimos who were not hurrying their dogs along as fast as the traveller had desired. Fearâ€" | ing for their lives, the had. slain the man. It is quite plain that the native is a very proud man. Indeâ€" pendent by nature, quite able to take care of himself under most trying cirâ€" cumstances, he has developed a dignity that is quite justified by personal acâ€" complishment. The Dominion Explorâ€" ers prospectors who have been in close â€"ontact with the natives for the months f the long subâ€"Arctic winter have got along with them well. By jollying them, laughing at them, with them, the natives have been brought to do anyâ€" thing. In his own business of hunting, the Eskimo is not to be lightly thought of. An ordinary hunter makes the equivalent of $4,000 a year of our money, and many of them have an â€"inâ€" come that is the equivalent of $10,000 a ‘ year. Of course, this does not mean $10,000 in Toronto. Everything the naâ€" tives buy costs them many times the manufactured cost. Gasoline, for inâ€" stance, which he uses for his auxiliary schooner on the coast, or for his stove inland, runs him from one to three dolâ€" lars a gallon. There is no money in that country, bills have no meaning, everything is traded. "I mentioned in my story last week that the Eskimo was. mechanically minded, and many people who read the story were quite surprised at this. It is «airâ€"wing" fenders, its arched windows, its chromiumâ€"plate bowlâ€"type lamps. Theycommenthighly on Plymouth‘s fullâ€"size dimensions, its richness and spaciousness, its wide, deep sceats, its exceptional legâ€"room. WHEN people discuss Plymouth, quality is invariably the keynote of their conversation. T hey say most complimentary things about its Chrysler smartness, its charm, its slenderâ€"profile radiator, its graceful A N A DA‘S LOWESTâ€"PRICED FULLâ€"SIZE C A R > Aue Plymouthâ€"product of C 3 Chrysler enginecring and crafteâ€" Li3 manship â€"has been so named because its endurance and strength, ruggedness and freedom from limitations so accurately typify that band of British people who braved the Atlantic three hundred years ago in pursuit of new high ideals. quite true. The native takes compliâ€" ! cated machinery apart and reassembles it perfectly. Whether he is creatively mechanical has yet to be learned. He has not the tools or the equipment. Undoubtedly he is a genius in his own way. Deprived of wood with which to make his komatik or toboggan, the Esâ€" kimo will take strips of deer hide, twist and freeze them, and get along quite well without wood. He can build, from such fiimsy materials, a fiexible huntâ€" ing komatik, 30 feet long, that five dogs can pull, even although it is loaded with 2,500 pounds of meat. With what little he has the native does wonders. Prosâ€" pectors who have lived in the country with them say that when mines are made up in the Barren Lands the Eskiâ€" mos will be the shift bosses, provided they are able to withstand the white man‘s diseases. That is the big point in considering the relationship of the Eskimo to the mining industry. Can he be immunized against the comâ€" plaints of civilization which the white man is able to throw off, but which the natives may take severely? "In some ways the native is very senâ€". sible. He has divided his year into thirteen lunar months. His counting system, however, becomes very compliâ€" cated when it ascends into high numâ€" bers. For instance, the number 79 reâ€" quires 24 words to express it. They count by the number of fingers and toes. Twenty is one man, 40 is two Eskimos. A few have been Christianâ€" ized, but most of them cling to their old beliefs. They have about three score gods and goddesses, or rather spirits, in their repertoire. Around the trading post Christianity is popular perâ€" haps because Sunday gives them a day of rest. They are hard working, but they are as strong for leisure as the white. ONTARIO "The Eskimo can be fitted into the mining picture. The short experience of Dominion Explorers around Tavane, where three native families are emâ€" ployed for the winter, demonstrated that the native is glad to be relieved of the food and fuel worries of his ordinâ€" ary life, and gives faithful service in return. In a primitive way he has been mining for generations, particularly in the Coronation Gulf country, where the Copper Eskimos, as the local tribe is called, have been ‘"mining" the deposits or searching for float, in order to proâ€" vide themselves with copper points for their weapons, or for utensils. And on one of the big Arctic islands, 800 miles north of the mouth of the Mackenzie, natives for many yeéars, under a single white man, have been mining a coal deâ€" posit." CHRYSLER MOTORS PRODUCT T hey refer glowingly to the powerful performance of Plymouth‘s 45 h. p. engine, of Chrysler "Silverâ€"Dome" principleâ€"its speed, its pickâ€"up, its abilâ€" ity on hills,itssmoothness, itsquietness. They speak of Plymouth‘s safetyâ€" of its fuiâ€"size Chrysler weatherproof 4â€"wheel hydraulic brakes, its rugged fullâ€"size chassis, springs and axles. @They praise Plymouth‘s amaezing economy in fuel, oil and upkeep. 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Windsor, Ontarto, includinz standard factory equipâ€" ment (freight and taxes. extra). 2 3 0 â€"--vvv ' Shoes fiw‘ Chlldren Thursday, May 16th, 1929 29.B.1

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