The Peace of Roaring River

George (Gray) van Schaick (1861-1924) was the author of: Sweetapple Cove (1914), The Son of the Otter (1915), The Girl at Big Loon Post (1916), A Top-Floor Idyl (1917) and The Peace of Roaring River (1918). "To the village of Carcajou came a young man in the spring. The last patches of snow were disappearing from under the protecting fronds of trees bursting into new leaf. From the surface of the lakes the heavy ice had melted and broken, and still lay in shattered piles on the lee shores. Black-headed chickadees, a robin or two, and finally swallows had appeared, following the wedges of geese returning from the south on their way to the great weedy shoals of James' Bay. "