By Barbara E. Kelcey
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Before the Mackenzie River Air Mail Service was instituted in December 1929, mail was delivered regularly only once a year. Until that time in the Western Arctic – and until later in the Eastern Arctic – mail delivery was otherwise sporadic, dependent on the rcmp patrol or other official visitors. In the north, it was the supply ship which moved the goods and brought the news and shiptime played such an important part in the lives of Arctic residents that many viewed the boat’s arrival as the beginning of their year.
QXD 8/10/2001 10:00 AM Page 8 8 alone in silence records left by white women are found where the women retired, away from their temporary northern homes. This is why there are gaps in this northern story. There are Inukshuk-like markers that directed the research and analysis to a comparison with colonial and pioneer settings in North America, and to the outposts of the British Empire, especially since the women I write about were a part of that Empire and identified themselves as such, and as occupants of its farthest reaches.
QXD 8/10/2001 10:00 AM Page 10 10 alone in silence had done it – I already knew that – but how they had done it. I discovered the answer to that question was sometimes with panache, often with simple perseverance, but mostly with alacrity, because for the most part they were ordinary women, with the skills learned for the gender roles they understood. Exposing white women’s culture disproves the myth that this was no place for a woman, but it also means accepting the women’s domestic role as the norm and understanding that motherhood was usually inevitable for all but the religious, whose destiny also included domestic duties.
