Table of Contents
Acknowledgements i
Map of the Northwest Territories ii
Foreword, by Ivan Gaetz v
1. Beginnings 1
2. Introductions to Northern Canada 9
3. Establishing the Hay River Chapel 27
4. Expanding Horizons 37
5. Medical Ministry and the Sub-Arctic Mission 55
6. Into the Sixties 77
7. Further Dimensions to Ministry 97
8. Christmas in the North 111
9. Hay River Families: Special Connections 129
10. Our Family Sketches 145
11. The North Revisited 169
12. Concluding Reflections 189
Afterword: “A Northern Biography:
Reverend Ken Gaetz” by Ivan Gaetz 191
This view of the Coppermine River was captured by Ivan in July, 2014, when he and a group of friends rafted down the river to the Artcic Ocean and Kugluktuk, Nunavut.