VI FOREWORD 



The coming granary for the world's wheat supply was 

 yesterday despised as " the land of snows " ; to-day the 

 subsoil of the world's best wheat land never thaws out, 

 arid the frozen valley of the Peace River is vying with 

 the "corn" lands of the Pharaohs. 



To us here, away out of the world's hum and bustle, 

 it seems only a question of time. Some day a railway 

 will come to export our stores of mineral wealth, to tap 

 our sources of more than Niagaran power, to bring visitors 

 to scenery of Norwegian quality yet made peculiarly 

 attractive by the entrancing colour plays of Arctic auroras 

 over the fantastic architecture of mountains the like of 

 which can seldom be matched on the earth. Surely it 

 will come to pass that one day another Atlantic City will 

 rise amidst these unexplored but invigorating wilds to 

 lure men and women tired of heat and exhausted by the 

 nerve stress of overcrowded centres. 



It has seemed appropriate, in this belief, to try to 

 collate available information in the form of a book that 

 should bring within easy reach of the public the facts 

 that are of interest concerning Labrador. It is hoped, 

 also, that such a book will act as an incentive to others 

 to come and pursue still further the studies and explora- 

 tions herein described. With these objects in view I 

 sought the help of friends skilled in the various branches 

 of science, as it can now declare the meaning of Labrador, 

 the land and the people. 



Dr. Reginald A. Daly, Professor of Geology at the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology of Boston, had, 

 during an extended trip in a schooner along the Lab- 

 rador coast, expended considerable work upon its rock 

 formations, and to him has been intrusted not only 



