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sionaries, another brother Clarence, as engineer, and
a student assistant named Graham. Month after
month we made the rounds of the camps. We were
now able to travel in comparative comfort, and
safety, and with much greater speed. Also we were
able to carry large quantities of reading matter for
distribution in the camps, a service we had been able
to render only in a very limited way when travelling
in an open boat. Now, too, we could travel in
winter as well as summer. In three years the
mission had grown from an experiment, into an
established twelve-month ordained mission field.

In the winter of 1906-07 we were given a splendid
boat called the Nazad, and the Psyche was sold.

In 1907 I was sent to Prince Rupert to commence
work for our Church in that new town, and others
took up the work of the Loggers’ Mission.”

In 1905 D. F. Smith and M. F. Munroe made
the rounds of the camps in Mr. Kidd’s absence. In
1907 Alexander MacAulay, from Pictou County,

‘ Nova Scotia, accepted the appointment and re-

mained at the work for five years. In 1912 Mr.
Burgess took charge with a young medical student
as assistant. In 1914 Dr. James Wallace was given
the field. It was for him that a large, new boat,
the Daphne was purchased. Dr. Wallace re-
mained only until the autumn, for the War had
broken out. He and many others of our mis-
sionaries went overseas with the troops. The field
was left unoccupied during the war years, mainly