In 1811 the Earl of Selkirk began sending Highland families across the Atlantic to the banks of the Red River, straight into the territory disputed by the Hudson’s Bay Company and the Montreal-based North West Company. Bryce follows the stormy crossing, the hungry first winters, the clashes with Nor’-Westers and Métis riders, and the slow rooting of the settlement that became Manitoba.
A Winnipeg historian’s lively account of the colony at the heart of western Canada’s beginnings, written for general readers. Download the free EPUB.