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John Buchan and Margaret Bourke-White on the Mackenzie
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John Buchan
John Buchan was born in Perth. His father was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland; and in 1876 the family moved to Fife where in order to attend the local school the small boy had to walk six miles a day. Later they moved again to the Gorbals in Glasgow and John Buchan went to Hutchesons' Grammar School, Glasgow University (by which time he was already publishing articles in periodicals) and Brasenose College, Oxford. His years at Oxford - 'spent peacefully in an enclave like a monastery' - nevertheless opened up yet more horizons and he published five books and many articles, won several awards including the Newdigate Prize for poetry and gained a First. His career was equally diverse and successful after university and, despite ill-health and continual pain from a duodenal ulcer, he played a prominent part in public life as a barrister and Member of Parliament, in addition to being a writer, soldier and publisher. In 1907 he married Susan Grosvenor, and the marriage was supremely happy. They had one daughter and three sons. He was created Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield in 1935 and became the fifteenth Governor-General of Canada, a position he held until his death in 1940. 'I don't think I remember anyone,' wrote G. M. Trevelyan to his widow, 'whose death evoked a more enviable outburst of sorrow, love and admiration.'
In June 1937 Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada, better known as the world famous author John Buchan, journeyed down the Mackenzie River during a tour of the North. He was the first Governor-General to visit the Arctic.
Margaret Bourke-White, world famous photographer, was assigned by LIFE Magazine to join him on this journey,as part of an amusing ship's company.
He wrote about the North as it was in 1937. She photographed it. Most of their work on this trip has never before been published.
The book takes the reader there: To 1937 and the North as it was in those days on board a flat bottomed paddle wheel steamer, the S.S. Distributor, heading down north as she delivered supplies to the Hudson Bay Company Posts along the river and picked up furs.
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