Author: Thomas Douglas Earl of SelkirkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest, Canadian
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Collected Writings of Lord Selkirk, 1799-1809
Author: Thomas Douglas Earl of SelkirkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest, Canadian
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Collected Writings of Lord Selkirk 1799-1809
Author: Thomas Douglas SelkirkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Collected Writings of Lord Selkirk
Author: Thomas Douglas Earl of SelkirkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest, Canadian
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Collected Writings of Lord Selkirk, 1799-1809
Author: Thomas Douglas Earl of SelkirkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest, Canadian
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Collected Writings of Lord Selkirk
Author: Thomas Douglas Earl of SelkirkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest, Canadian
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Volume ... in the Writings and Papers of Thomas Douglas, Fifth Earl of Selkirk
Author: Thomas D. SelkirkThe Collected Writings of Lord Selkirk, 1810-1820
Author: Thomas Douglas Earl of SelkirkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest, Canadian
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The Writings and Papers of Thomas Douglas, Fifth Earl of Selkirk
Author: Thomas Douglas of SelkirkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Red River Rising
Author: B.J. BaylePublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459702301
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Angus and his family are sent from Scotland in 1813 on a voyage to start a new life in the strange and cruel new land of western Canada. In 1813, cleared out from their beloved Scottish Highlands, 15-year-old Angus, his mother, father, small brother Rabbie, and 100 others sail for Canada to seek a better life with assistance from Lord Selkirk. Angus, his family, and their friends the O’Hares, with their aloof, unsmiling daughter Maggie, share the hardships and terror of the sea voyage only to be dumped onto the shore of a forbidding land. There they spend a brutal winter. With bitter determination and help from the Native population, the settlers manage to reach the Red River. They are eager to finally begin their new life but meet obstacles even more dangerous when they are caught up in a struggle between the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company, powerful fur-trading rivals. Despite this hard transition, Angus falls in love with this new land and takes his place beside the brave men who risk their lives to protect it.
The Silver Chief
Author: Lucille H. CampeyPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1770704388
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Belfast, Prince Edward Island, founded in August 1803, owes its existence to Lord Selkirk. Its bicentennial is a timely reminder of Selkirk’s work in Canada, which extended beyond Belfast to Baldoon (later Wallaceburg) in Ontario, as well as to Red River, the precursor to Winnipeg. Aptly named "The Silver Chief" by the five Indian chiefs with whom he negotiated a land treaty at Red River, the fifth Earl of Selkirk spent an immense fortune in helping Scottish Highlanders relocate themselves in Canada. Selkirk has been well observed through the eyes of the rich and powerful, but his settlers have been neglected. Why did they leave Scotland? Which districts did they come from? Why did they settle in Canada? Why did Selkirk help them? How successful were their settlements? What impact did they have on Canada’s early development? Did Selkirk realize his ambitions for Canada? In answering these questions, Lucille H. Campey presents a new and powerful case for re-assessing the achievements of Selkirk and his settlers. Using a wealth of documentary sources, she reconstructs the sequence of emigration from Scotland to the three areas of Canada where settlements were founded. She shows that emigration took place in a carefully planned and controlled way. She reveals the self-reliance, adaptability and steely determination of the Selkirk settlers in overcoming their many problems and obstacles. They brought their rich traditions of Scottish culture to Canada and, in doing so, helped to secure its distinctively Canadian future. Together, Selkirk and his settlers succeeded against overwhelming odds and altered the course of history.