Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. A Long While Between Dog Teams: Climate, Communications, and Isolation 15
6. Meatless, Wheatless, and Sweetless Days: The Domestic Arrangements of a Northern Home 34
7. “Speaking of Me and Franklin”: Women Travellers in the Arctic 57
8. Travels With the “More Realistic” Sex in the 1920s and 1930s 78
9. “Standing in the Gap:” Anglican Women and the Northern Mission 97
10. “Faith Inspires, Distinguishes, and Explains It”: The Grey Nuns’ Mission in the North 123
11. White Women Have Strange Ways: Connections and Distinctions between Cultures 138
12. “A Certain Amount of Unpleasantness”: One Woman’s Encounter with the Holy Trinity of the North 162
13. Conclusion 176
14. Abbreviations 179
15. Notes 181
16. Bibliography 207
17. Index 221