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(More customer reviews)Leonard Budgell - traveller, radio and naval expert, fur trader, story teller, Hudson's Bay man, dear friend - comes to glorious reality under the editorship of Claudia Coutu Radmore. With diligence and dignity, Radmore has sifted through hundreds of letters to make a life shine. These chronicles of a traditional way of Northern life should be required reading for high school students throughout this country; anyone with a heart for adventure will love this book.
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Leonard Budgell saw the Canadian North like nobody else. He put his observations into words as few others ever could. Said a seasoned editor, "Of all the books I've worked on, this is my favourite. I want all my family and friends to read it." 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 - except he wrote them down. His pen memorably portrays everything from dancing northern lights and nesting practices of primal birds to astonishing human adventures. Northern ways intact for centuries changed with rifles and motorboats, radios and electric generators, new foods and different medicines. Most often, it was Budgell who bridged the aboriginal and southern cultures, building and operating remote radio stations at places like Hebron, taking an RCMP officer into settlements where a choice had to be made between two different codes of law and behaviour. In Arctic Twilight, Leonard Budgell chronicles, in an outpouring of letters to a much younger female friend, a traditional way of life that was changing forever.
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