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Article: Among the Cree Indians of Canada.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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A Youth standing by my side at the Cochrane Railway Station was, like most people in northern Ontario, friendly. He was full of advice when I told him that I would be taking the Polar Bear Express to Moosonee, known as the 'Gateway to the Arctic'.
The young man was ecstatic, 'You'll love this trip. It's a world of wilderness which grips your imagination.' He continued: 'The train travels through a spectacular natural landscape to one of North America's last real frontiers. I've taken it many times. Its a great excursion!'
With sharp blasts of the horn, the train pulled out of Cochrane, the summer home of the Polar Bear Express which operates only from the end ...