In the Promised Land of Alberta’s North, The Northern Journal of Katherine Hughes (Summer 1909)

Ed: Ken Kaiser and Merrily Aubrey, 2006 (SC 208p)
ISBN 0-929123-15-8

In 1908, a young writer for the Montreal Star and Edmonton Bulletin named Katherine Hughes became Alberta’s first Provincial Archivist.

In the summer of 1909, she undertook a lengthy journey through northern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia to research the history of this vast region. Her journal, held by the Provincial Archives, has now been published. It discloses a wealth of detail on people, places and circumstances in the North, from Aboriginal cultures, treaty administration, and fur trade practices to transportation, experimental farming, and tar sands exploration.