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"An extraordinary life story, told with honesty, humour and compassion." --Leslie Boyd, Owner & Director, Inuit Fine Art Gallery "Vivid characters and hardships feel cinematic, swooping the reader deep into culture and life in the arctic."--Joan E. Athey, Peaceworks Now Productions " A worthy and wonderful addition to literature of the Canadian north in the early 20th century." --Wade Rowland, author of Canada Lives Here
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About the Author
J. David Ford was a "native born son," born in the arctic, but he straddled distinct ways of life: white man versus Inuit (Eskimo) and Innu (Indian); the hardships of northern arctic life versus the easier existence of "the outside" world - Newfoundland - where his family had relatives, where they went on leave or for medical attention; the Hudson's Bay Company expectations to conduct astute business practices versus caring for members of the community and taking responsibility for the ongoing needs of the local people. He was a native born son but an outsider, part Inuit but living a white man's life in an HBC employee frame house. His parents, whose ancestors had lived in the arctic for generations, knew that his survival in the north depended on what he learned from his Inuit friends but also thought it was important for him to go to Newfoundland for five years to finish high school. This dichotomy honed his abilities as an observer and recorder of a time in history that was about to perish, the end of an era and a way of life that changed drastically after the war.
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Product details
Paperback: 270 pages
Publisher: Blue Denim Press Inc (October 1, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781927882313
ISBN-13: 978-1927882313
ASIN: 1927882311
Product Dimensions:
6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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#4,930,393 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Marnie Hare Bickle’s Native Born Son: The Journals of J. David FordNative Born Son offers a clear, affectionate insight into everyday life in Canada’s eastern arctic in the early decades of the 20th century – a time when human safety was achieved only by managing a merciless environment by dint of competence and collaboration. We are privileged to see this period through the perceptive eyes and unadorned words of trader and hunter David Ford. David was born at the Hudson’s Bay Company trading post in Fort Chimo (now Kuujjuaq) in 1910 when the Ungava Peninsula was divided between Canada’s Northwest Territories and the Dominion of Newfoundland.Marnie Hare Bickle has ably edited David’s reminiscences into a captivating account covering more than two decades. Michele E. Collins’ maps and illustrations are a welcome complement.The reminiscences begin in Wakeham Bay (now Kangiqsujuaq) and move on to Cape Wolstenholme and Coats Island. Then follow his six years of boarding school in St Johns and his return to join his parents on Southampton Island where his father had established a new trading post at Coral Harbour (now Salliq or Salliit). The editor’s introduction suggests that there was much, much more material to select from.The author who emerges from the selection of these journals is an observant, quietly self-confident individual with the capacity to reflect on and react with sensitivity to the daily life around him. The narrative is an account of the growing from childhood to manhood of an intelligent, reflective, articulate and empathetic individual, equally at home with the indigenous peoples of the north as with the Europeans who had lived and traded across the arctic for centuries seeking mutual advantage. David’s comfort is unsurprising since his blood-lines drew from both cultures. In the most profound sense, he was a native-born son who genuinely embraced the arctic as his home and native land.Multiple ingredients are woven seamlessly into the narrative: the bewitching landscape of which the weather is an integral part; all that it takes for a community to survive in that environment; David’s friendship and profound respect for the indigenous peoples; and the affection and esteem he is held in for his insight, compassion, dependability and leadership.The arctic presents many dangers – lasting storms, bitter cold, the volatile floe-edge, moving ice-pans that can outrun a kayak, the polar bear seeking prey. The best way to stay safe was not (and is not) to shun the dangers but to develop the capability to address them with skill. David learned early, on the trapline with his father and with his indigenous playmates. At eight, he enjoyed his first successful polar bear hunt.David’s candid accounts of the contest between man and his prey are vivid. Remember that this was a time when there was little or no option but to rely on skills and collaboration to find the means to survive. In one memorable exploit after another, the author encourages the reader to summon up the consciousness of the life of the tribe that hunts – a feeling lost in our age of processed meat so anonymous that we can ignore it comes from animals that lived.The tiny trading posts in the Canadian arctic are supplied annually with goods sought from Europe. The annual Hudson’s Bay Company supply ship, the Tyne-built Nascopie, braves the dangerous summer waters to replenish the essentials required by indigenous groups and traders and to return with furs, ivory and ambergris.One year, ice conditions make it impossible for the Nascopie to reach Coral Harbour. David, Nattakkok, Koosherak and Kowjakudluk set off in a whaleboat to pursue a Greenland whale that will guarantee enough meat for all for the entire winter. The expedition is successful though it takes them 28 days. Despite having now provided the community with the bare essentials, they refuse to revert to mere subsistence living, and so eight men with four dogsleds undertake a trek to the trading post at Repulse Bay (now Naujaat). Forty-seven days and 1500-miles later, they return to Coral Harbour with supplies of flour, tea, sugar, molasses, tobacco, coffee and the most coveted item of all – matches.David’s account of leading that expedition accompanied by seven Inuit friends offers an insight into the essential nature of such dangerous travel. Like hunting, long-distance travel is a social affair in which eight men and 33 huskies working side by side, overcoming extreme challenges to demonstrate that man will not be subjected by nature. By exercising their ingenuity, collaboration, courage, mutual respect and judgement honed of centuries of experience, they surmount all that nature can throw at them. They earn the right to call themselves “pre-eminent men†-- David’s rendering of how Inuit refer to themselves and a name they extend to the author who they acknowledge as a resourceful leader.This account of life in the arctic is neither romantic nor sentimental. The author carries within him two traditions at a time of mutual dependence on trade goods that include rifles, metal tools and matches. How the hunter-gatherer relates to animals can appear callous to those who know animals only as pets and hunting as a form of recreation.Just as a pack of wolves is innocent when it kills and devours a caribou, so David and his companions are free of guilt when they pursue the 45-ton whale or recently-cubbed adult polar bear that provide sustenance for the village. Each is acting out the biological imperative of the species; each is engaging in an essential form of social life. David recounts how hunters must tell, retell and act out every step of the hunt, as a traditional social ritual. Such people are confident in the company of one another and are bound by a common endeavour which strengthens the well-being of their group.The immediacy of David Ford’s forthright and unselfconscious narratives may stir an atavistic longing for the apparently simple relations that all our primal ancestors once enjoyed. Nevertheless, upon reflection we are likely to feel grateful that no longer does the continuous survival of any Canadian depend exclusively upon hunting and the raw exchange of basics.Every Canadian should read Native Born Son in order to savour the past vicariously in the company of those who belong to the northern frontier, indigenous and settler alike, while appreciating from their comfortable, educated, secure and healthy vantage points, the progress that has been made and is now enjoyed by all.Despite the editor’s thumbnail portrait of David Ford in the introduction as a “character, eccentric, a teller of tall tales†his accounts of travels and of exploits, for this reviewer who frequently travelled to the Ungava and the Melville Peninsulas between the mid 1970s and the mid 1980s, possess the unmistakable voice of authenticity.My one wish was that the book had been longer.
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