Unsettled , livre ebook

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'The fascinating story of the Red River Settlement, now Winnipeg, in the years 1813 to 1816, told with archival journals, reports, and lettersUnsettled tells the story of two hundred Highlanders who flee the Scottish Clearances in 1813 to establish a settlement on the Red River in what eventually became Winnipeg. They are sponsored by the Earl of Selkirk, a man who has never been west of Montreal. Families who have never left their Highland crofts take an epic journey over ocean, up wild rivers, and through boundless wilderness, surviving disease and brutal winter only to face the determined opposition of fur barons who want no sodbusters threatening their trade and are prepared to stop at nothing to destroy their dream.The empty land they ve been promised is also anything but, already occupied by First Nations bands and the beginnings of that proud nation soon to be called M(c)tis, whom they must befriend or fight.Unsettled takes you insid
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Date de parution

06 juin 2023

Nombre de lectures

4

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9781778521669

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

26 Mo

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