"Sleeping Island" is the narrative of a summer's travel in northern Manitoba and the Northwest Territories by P. G. Downes.
Prentice G. "Spike" Downes (1909–1959) was an American school teacher and author, who traveled by canoe to explore the Great Barren Lands and learn the ways of the Cree and Dene people. Downes' journals record a disappearing people, and a landscape unknown to all but the Canadian natives at that time. His daughter Annie Downes Catterson said of him that he traveled a great distance "in order to learn the things of long ago."
Book Details
Author
P. G. Downes
Editor
Robert H. Cockburn
Date Published
1943
Date Printed
2011
General Notes
Note
As an original Conantum family, P. G. Downes built the house at 238 Heath's Bridge Rd. and settled here in 1952.
