Travel Journals of Tappan Adney, Vol. 2, 1891-1896

Tappan Adney, born in 1868 in Athens, Ohio, was an artist, a writer, and a photographer. He was credited with saving the art of birchbark canoe construction and built more than 100 models of different types. During World War I, he was an engineering officer for the Royal Military College. His book about the Klondike Gold Rush has become a well-loved standard. He worked in Montreal as a consultant on aboriginal lore, then retired to Woodstock, New Brunswick, where his wife, Minnie Bell Sharp, had been born. He died in 1950. C. Ted Behne’s interest in Tappan Adney began when he attended a birchbark canoe-building class. After 30 years of working as a writer and editor, he agreed to take on the task of completing Wheaton’s book on Tappan Adney. His articles on the birchbark canoe and Tappan Adney appeared in Native Peoples Magazine, Prairies North, and Wooden Boat Magazine, and he edited The Travel Journals of Tappan Adney Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. Andrea Bear Nicholas is a Wəlastəkwew (Maliseet) from Nekwətkok (Tobique First Nation) and Professor Emerita at St. Thomas University, where she held the Chair in Native Studies for twenty years and developed the first university-based Indigenous Language Immersion Teacher Training Program in North America. She has published widely on Indigenous history, Oral Traditions, linguistic rights, and revitalization.