The Hudson Bay Lowlands that cover the top of Ontario form one of the largest remaining wild spaces on earth. The Lowlands are a sometimes harsh but beautiful place that has long supported the Swampy Cree people-the Mushkegowuk. The North Then and Now: Stories from the Hudson Bay Lowlands tells what is has been like to live in that vast, remote land-and experience the changes that have happened to it and its people over the last seventy-some years.