West by South Grade VI

Stothers, J.C., Armitage, Elva and Kingston, Verda M.  West by South Grade VI.

Toronto, Ryerson,  1938. 219 p.  Illus. 

Book Description

Toronto, Ryerson, (1938). (VG). First edition. Illustrated by C. W. Jefferys. Stories about the early exploration of North...

• Frontis.  -  “Etienne Brule at the mouth of the Humber River”

• p. iii  -  detail of illus. on p. 75

• p. iv  -  “These Guidebooks were illustrated by C.W. Jefferys, R.C.A., LL.D., Edith McLaren and Stella Grier.  Maps by R. Hewson.”

• p. 1  -  [Balboa at the Pacific]

• p. 2  -  [Radisson greeting an Indian]

• p. 53  -  “Cortez meets the Axtecs in Mexico”

• p. 75  -  “Jacques Cartier at Hochelaga”

• p. 87  -  “Marquette and Joliet on the Mississippi”

• p. 95  -  “La Salle crossing the Toronto Portage in 1681 on his way to the Mississippi”

• p. 110  -  “Along the waterfront of New Amsterdam”

• p. 113  -  “A town meeting in New England”

• p. 136  -  ‘The beaver hunters”

• p. 138-139  -  “A village of the Iroquois”

• p. 156-`57  -  “A buffalo hunt on the prairies”

• p. 183  -  “Simon Fraser descending the Fraser River, 1808”

• p. 187  -  “David Thompson taking observations of the sun” plus lengthy note by CWJ

• p. 190  -  “The Caribou Road”

• p. 213  -  “Stefansson in the Arctic” plus CWJ note re how he lived while in the Arctic, building snow houses and “shooting seals”.