Call of the north.

• Author: Marshall, Charles A.
• Position: Upfront

I recently received the April issue. On looking over the list of articles I stopped at Atlin. I said to myself, I know an Atlin but it is nowhere near Central or South America.

To my amazement, it was my Atlin in northern British Columbia.

My parents took my sister and me on an Alaskan trip. I think it was in the mid to late 1920s. Born in 1916, I think I was about ten or twelve.

We went out of Vancouver on one of the car (Canadian Pacific Registry) ships stopping at various places and ending up in Skagway, then up the so-called Inland Passage, and from there on the narrow-gauge White Pass and Yukon Railroad to Carcross and Whitehorse.

On the southern-bound part, we returned to Carcross, took a small steamer to a piece of land, transferred to a train for a short leg...