Francis Godfrey Baker - Godfrey to those in the know - was a local boy, graduate of Queen's College and a real outdoorsman. He'd spent many summers as a surveyor for the provincial government, canoeing through the northern provinces inhabited at the time only by indigenous people. It is said that he learned to build birchbark canoes from the folks that invented such things, and once horrified the director of an elite whitefolk summer camp by dismantling the prized camp specimen - only to rebuild it better than before using sap and a pair of crossed twigs for a blow torch. Godfrey was a helluva guy, a mechanical engineer by trade. And he was smitten by Marion. But it was wartime in the old country, and she had a duty to serve...
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