Arctic Twilight: Leonard Budgell and Canada’s Changing North

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Leonard Budgell saw the Canadian North like no one else. He put his observations into words as few others ever could.

As a “Servant of the Bay” Budgell ran Hudson’s Bay Company trading posts for decades in isolated communities up the Labrador coast and across the Arctic. Living among aboriginal Canadians he witnessed episodes and heard stories that would never again be repeated – apart from he wrote them down. His pen memorably portrays everything from dancing northern lights and hunting practices of birds to astonishing human adventures and predicaments.

Northern ways intact for centuries changed with rifles and motorboats, radios and electric generators, new foods and different medicines. Most steadily, it was once Budgell who bridged the aboriginal and southern cultures, building and operating remote radio stations at places like Hebron, taking an RCMP officer into a settlement where a choice needed to be made between two different codes of law and behaviour in a murder case. In Arctic Twilight, Budgell chronicles, in an outpouring of letters to a much younger female friend, a traditional way of living that was once changing eternally.

Claudia Coutu Radmore, a teacher, creator, and artist, first met Len Budgell in Winnipeg when she was once a fine arts student and he had retired from the Company. Their friendship grew stronger when he started writing remarkable letters after she returned to Queen’s University. Now edited and organized by her, this unique memoir is to be had to the public for the first time.

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