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In June 1937 Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada, better known as the world famous author John Buchan, journeyed down the Mackenzie River during a tour of the North. He was the first Governor-General to visit the Arctic.
Margaret Bourke-White, world famous photographer, was assigned by LIFE Magazine to join him on this journey,as part of an amusing ship's company.
He wrote about the North as it was in 1937. She photographed it. Most of their work on this trip has never before been published.
The book takes the reader there: To 1937 and the North as it was in those days on board a flat bottomed paddle wheel steamer, the S.S. Distributor, heading down north as she delivered supplies to the Hudson Bay Company Posts along the river and picked up furs.
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