A Norseman plane landed last week in the Albany River where it empties into bleak James Bay. A man carrying a sheaf of papers went ashore with the pilot and walked toward a line of unpainted shacks and squalid tents on-the river bank. Huskies, chained to stakes around every dwelling, set up a howl. Ragged Indian children left their baseball game on the muskeg to crowd around the strangers.
The man with the papers was Election Officer Lucien Guertin. He had come to Fort Albany from Cochrane, 220 miles to the south, to arrange for the voting in Ontario's June 7 provincial...
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