IN THE BEAVER …

The striking cover photo of The Beaver’s Summer 1958 issue was taken by Rosemary Gilliat and shows an “Eskimo” barge-builder working at Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories. Inside the issue, seven pages of black-and-white photos portray other Inuit and First Nations people in “transition” as they adapt to the mechanized contemporary world that has been overrun by “the white man.” Following Gilliat’s photo spread is an article by Francis von der Lin that looks at early attempts to produce oil from “the bituminous sands of the Athabasca River.” The same issue also includes a pair of visual features printed on special paper with red and black ink. “The Quetico pictographs,” by Selwyn Dewdney, tells about the cliff paintings to be seen in Ontario’s Quetico Park, west of Thunder Bay. And “Adrift,” by “Simon the Artist,” illustrates a hunting expedition during which he and eight other Inuit hunters found themselves carried away by moving sea ice.