remote settlements accessible only by stagecoach or buckboard. In 1894 she presented a series of successful recitals in London, England, and while there arranged for the publication of her first book of poems, The white wampum (London, Toronto, and Boston, [1895]). Her second collection, Canadian born (Toronto), appeared in 1903. Reflecting Canadian experience more generally and embodying the patriotic sentiments typical of the era of the South African War, it proved less successful than the earlier volume, with its emphasis on native subjects and experience, had been. In fact, Johnson's poetry is more wide-ranging and exploratory than the traditional focus on her lyrics of landscape and native life might suggest. Some of her poems celebrate the country's recreational north (as in "Under canvas" and "The camper"), others reflect the intense nationalism and idealism of Edwardian Canada (such as "Canadian born" or "Prairie greyhounds") or explore Christian themes ("Brier" and "Christmastide"), and still others are light or comic in tone (for example, "Canada (acrostic)" and "A toast"). Together these themes suggest a broader and more engaged sensibility than that usually attributed to her. In 1906 Johnson returned to London, and while there met Squamish chief Joseph Capilano [Su -- -pu-luck* ] and his delegation to Edward VII, in England to protest hunting and fishing restrictions recently imposed upon natives of the British Columbia coast by the Canadian government. Her friendship with "Chief Joe" would reinforce her own growing attraction to the west coast and culminate in her retelling of his stories