House Calls by Dogsled : Six Years in an Arctic Medical Outpost Howard White from elegiac considerations of the

from elegiac considerations of the lives of other writers (such as Al Purdy in "Elegy for an Elegist" and Willa Cather in "I Went into the Gardens of the Empress Hotel")

–Rina Garcia Chua

Marilyn Dumont and Katherena Vermette

the small image that washes over through just how well its brevity is kept

masterfully constructs images held in contradictory tension

House Calls by Dogsled : Six Years in an Arctic Medical Outpost Howard White from elegiac considerations of theDescription "People go north for a variety of reasons, some stay for a lifetime, while others can't wait to leave at the end of whatever term they have signed on for. The north tends to be either loved or hated with equal passion." These are the words of Keith Billington, who with his wife Muriel, arrived in the Northwest Territories outpost of Fort McPherson, 1,700 miles north of Edmonton, in mid September 1964. They were among those who loved the