ARCTIC MISHAP
PRIEST'S EPIC TRIP
TO AID INJURED INDIAN
(Received January 25, 2 p.m.) TORONTO, January 24. A Catholic priest made an epic 115----mile trip in the Arctic dragging a sleigh with a critically-ill Indian on it.
About a fortnight ago an Indian staggered into the Albany mission with the information that George Mechat had severed a foot with an axe and was lying 115 miles towards the Arctic. Father Lavoie and three Indians started with dogsleds, but the snow was too soft, and Father Lavoie went on alone, in snowshoes. In places he sank four feet. After eight days he reached the wigwam in which Mechat was comatose with gangrene, his only food for fourteen days having been flour and rabbit.
Father Lavoie fought his way back dragging Mechat on a sleigh. When they arrived at the mission, Mechat's leg was amputated by Sister Marie, the "{vhite angel" of the north.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 20, 25 January 1938, Page 10
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