V1. 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, 
and 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 
