Prentice G Downes

Prentice G. Spike Downes (1909 1959) was an American school teacher and author, who travelled by canoe to explore the Great Barren Lands and learn the ways of the Cree and Dene people. Downes journals record a disappearing people, and a landscape nknown to all but the Canadian natives at that time. His daughter Annie Downes Catterson said of him that he traveled a great distance in order to learn the things of long ago.