Missing from the record

Regarding the reference to artist John White being on Martin Frobisher’s 1577 voyage [“Bows & Arrows,” October-November 2016]: A complete list of the ship’s company for Frobisher’s second northwest voyage is given in Archeology of the Frobisher Voyages [1993], but John White’s name does not appear. The image was possibly made as a sketch by one of the company and recopied by White back in England. A small error, but let’s give credit where credit is due.

Donald D. Hogarth

Ottawa

Editor’s note: The matter is debatable. P.H. Hulton, the assistant keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum in London, states in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography: “Though his name does not appear in the documents there is strong presumptive evidence that [ John White] sailed with Frobisher to South Baffin Island on his second voyage in 1577. This is supplied by a pen and watercolour drawing of a fight between Eskimos and Englishmen…. The scene depicted is so authentic in detail that it may be presumed that White himself was an eyewitness.”

father was a United Church minister in Arden, Manitoba. We witnessed crowds of men riding the rails, and we frequently had men staying with us.

On one occasion, two of these men claimed to have been incarcerated in every jail in the United States except Sing Sing! Dad was a bit concerned about our safety but took them in anyway. The men happily took over an upstairs bedroom, while Dad patrolled the hall all night.

The visitors went away in the morning, well-fed and possibly chortling over the gullible clergyman who had taken them in. Dad was far from naive, but he simply could not turn away someone in such dire straits. Katheryn (MacLean) Broughton

Thornhill, Ontario The Teaching Wigwams, the residential schools.

Bernice Mason Logan Tangier, Nova Scotia tells the true story of

Editor’s note: Some former staff members of residential schools have testified they were unaware of abuses committed by their colleagues. Back to the Red Road, a book by former teacher Florence Kaefer and one of her students, Edward Gamblin, addresses this subject.