The Helping Hand:  The Debt of Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser to Indian Canadians

Hardwick, Francis C.,  ed.  The Helping Hand:  The Debt of Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser to Indian Canadians.  Vancouver, Tantalus Research Ltd.,  1973.  78 p.  Illus.

p. ii  -  “Acknowledgements…the Imperial Oil Company (drawings by C.W. Jefferys…”

p. 5  -  “British Columbia dugout used on rivers” “Carrying a north canoe over a portage”

p. 9  -  “Mackenzie at the Arctic, 1789”

p. 11  -  “Alexander Mackenzie and his explorations” [map]

p. 13  -  “Finding the sun’s elevation above the horizon by the use of the cross-staff”

                        [David Thompson]

                        [Champlain and his astrolabe]

                        [man on snowshoes]

                        “Packing and carrying baggage”

                        “Western Indians’ canoes”

                        “Western snowshoes”

p. 20  -  “A dugout canoe was made by shaping a log, charring the inside, and then scraping it with sharp stones.”

p. 21  -  “Champlain taking an observation with the astrolabe”

p. 27  -  “Captain James Cook at Nootka, 1778”

p. 28  -  [man portaging in the rain]

p. 34  -  “Totem poles” “Coast Indians’ dwellings”

p. 35  -  “Canoe routes to the west and north”  [map]  “Arctic exploration”

p. 44  -  “Mackenzie at the Pacific Ocean, 1793”

p. 59  -  “Carrying a north canoe over a portage”  [wording faint]

p. 62  -  “Simon Fraser descending the Fraser River, 1808”

p. 70  -  “Fish trap on an British Columbia river”, plus tools