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...conference took place at Matameck Factory, Copley Amory's manor on Moisie Bay, near the Labrador boundary. A rich Boston merchant who has canoed and snowshoed over a great part of north central Canada, Copley Amory, 65, rebuilt a ruined Hudson's Bay trading post as a refuge from hayfever and a base for fishing. The few Indians and whites in the neighborhood have found in him their patron in sickness and want. Serious want comes to the Canadian backwoods families about every ten years. The game upon which they depend for food and profit runs through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Canadian Ecology | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

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