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Unsettled: Lord Selkirk’S Scottish Colonists and the Battle for Canada’S West, 1813–1816 (in English)
Robert Lower
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ECW Press
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Unsettled: Lord Selkirk’S Scottish Colonists and the Battle for Canada’S West, 1813–1816 (in English) - Lower, Robert
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Synopsis "Unsettled: Lord Selkirk’S Scottish Colonists and the Battle for Canada’S West, 1813–1816 (in English)"
The fascinating story of the Red River Settlement, now Winnipeg, in the years 1813 to 1816, told with archival journals, reports, and letters Unsettled 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 Métis, whom they must befriend or fight. Unsettled takes you inside the experience, relying on journals, reports, and letters to bring these days of soaring hope, crushing despair, and heroic determination to life -- to bring their present into ours.
