THE ESKIMO PEOPLE
INTELLIGENT AND LIKEABLE
A new conception- of the native' Eskimo people who inhabit Canada^s Sii'b-Arctic regions was given at Toronto by- Mr. -Bichard Knnie,' official archivist anfl photographer of the J Canadian Arctic under the Federal Department of the Interior. ' C Eskimos, he said, were not."refrigerated, blubber-saturated savages, - but' happy, intelligent, and hospitable people, the 'finest, most -generous,: and most likeable people •of all uncultured races." • ._ ■ - .The Arctic climate, said Mr. Pinnie -—tilting at another popular belief by no.means was unbearable. The summers, were short, "btit warm, -and pleasant. Winters' were cold, but he had' suffered far. more with cold in civilisation when wearing '/its ridiculously inadequate clothing." .■•'.. N.v. Final© predicted that within the next four generations towns and cities would grow up across the fringe' of the polar ocean "to' form the nucleus of a new empire." The aeroplane had ehanged.tho/whole.situation in the Arctic. Among other things it had help-, ed the ,touristto discover the Mackenzie River, with it8 ; 2000• miles of 'magnificent ■ waterway through.; unspoiled country. -. .. ' -■• • '
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 40, 17 February 1933, Page 3
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171THE ESKIMO PEOPLE Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 40, 17 February 1933, Page 3
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