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have asked," he says, " our Bishop to allow me to 

 go to Ungava Bay this next summer, and to this 

 request he has readily assented. You will be sorry 

 to hear that the Roman Catholics in Canada are 

 trying to get a footing there, and it behoves us 

 to do all that lies in our power to spread the pure 

 Gospel of God's grace and love in that region at 

 once. 



" I only wish we had a man stationed there. All 

 the Eskimos living on the southern shores of Hud 

 son's Straits assemble in the winter months at 

 Fort Chimo (the Hudson's Bay Company's post 

 at Ungava). There are also some five hundred 

 Indians connected with the post, together with a 

 large party of English-speaking residents. Noth 

 ing, I am sure, would give our Bishop greater joy 

 than to see this station occupied, and we might 

 then look forward to the time when the whole 

 Labrador peninsula would be won for Christ. We 

 have not as yet an Eskimo fitted to commence work 

 there alone. To start the work we need a man 

 from home, and, with God's blessing, native help 

 will follow." 



And the shadow fell in this way. In August 

 1891, a third child was born. Mrs. Peck contin 

 ued in fairly good health until the following Christ 

 mas. Then the great strain of exceptionally trying 

 circumstances broke her down. A dreary winter 

 came on. It was unusually severe and the food 



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