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ated the frontier hospital work in Canada for the
Presbyterian Church, six years later, also in British
Columbia, by building the little Atlin hospital in the
days of the Yukon gold stampede. In 1895 Dr.
Bolton built another at Port Essington, with a branch
in 1897 at Rivers Inlet, given over in 1898 to
Dr. Large. In 1900 Dr. Wrinch erected the first
unit of the very fine institution over which he
now presides at Hazelton. Someone (say Dr.
Wrinch) should write the full story of these hospitals.
It is an enticing subject, filled with the romance of
pioneer Christian service in the outermost bounds of
the wilds of North America.

I shall not try to describe our Indian schools at
Ahousat, Alberni, and Ucluelet, established by the
former Presbyterian Church. Hospitals and Indian
missions, although sometimes forming part of the
regular duties of our marine men, will be outlined
only where that is necessary to get the right per-
spective in my story of the Marine Mission.

I have not attempted to touch our marine work
on the Atlantic coast. My description has been
narrowed down, apart from historical material, to
the work of five larger boats on the Pacific ocean.
If I were to venture to tell of all the little boats,
used to-day and in past days, on lake and river and
sheltered bay, east and west and north, to carry
our missionaries on their rounds, my task would be
unending.

The maps reproduced in this book are neces-
sarily imperfect. They give only a poor idea of the