When the Whalers Were Up North

Dorothy Harley Eber is a Montreal writer with a special interest in documentary reportage, oral history, and historical photography. She is the author of Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life and Genius at Work: Images of Alexander Graham Bell, and is co-author with Inuit writer and photographer Peter Pitseolak of People from Our Side.

• Prologue - the arrival of the whalers; in Cumberland Sound; in Hudson Bay and the Strait; shamans and whalers; the case of the missing whales; SPicer's Harbour; the Siikatsi and the wreck of the "Polar Star"; death of the last Tuniit; the "Active"; wintering; personalities of the bay; the last vessle at Marble Island; the wreck of the "Seduisante"; the "Active's last voyage, 1912-3; the last whales; final curtain.

"A gem of a book ... Eber has succeeded well in elucidating the interaction between Eastern Arctic Inuit and the American and Scottish whalemen who came to Cumberland Sound, Hudson Strait, and Hudson Bay in the century before the last whaler left in 1915 ... Anyone interested in the socio-economic impact of Arctic whaling, the Inuit, or the ethnological record of such inter-cultural contact will find this book worthy of study." Briton C. Busch, Argonauta. "A remarkable collection of Eastern Arctic lore." Books in Canada. "A major contribution to Inuit social history." Mick Mallon, Nunatsiaq News.