Marie-Anne: The Extraordinary Life of Louis Riel's Grandmother by Siggins, Maggie

McClelland & Stewart, 2008. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

McClelland & Stewart, 2008. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

McClelland & Stewart, 2008. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2008. 307 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w maps. Inscribed by author on title page: "For Walter. Dec/08 To a wonderful writer and friend Maggie Siggins"."Beautiful and spirited, Marie-Anne rejected suitor after suitor until she was twenty-six - a rebellion unheard of in 1800s Quebec habitant society. Then, shortly after her marriage to the handsome coureur de bois Jean-Baptiste Lagimodiere, she insisted on accompanying him back to the uncharted wilderness of western Canada. The year was 1807, and no white woman had tackled the fierce wilderness of Canada's fur-trading country. Marie-Anne travelled almost three thousand kilometres by canoe brigade, facing tumultuous rapids, portages, and deadly storms on the way to the Red River Valley. She packed a flatiron for the voyage, a disturbing sign that she was woefully unaware of what lay ahead. They arrived in the midst of tribal warfare triggered by the fur-trade economy, and a fierce rivalry between the… Read More

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart 978-0-7710-8029-6 [978-0-7710-8029-6] 2008, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 307pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Maps, bibliography, index. Book about Marie-Anne Lagimodiere. Locale: Manitoba; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Manitoba, Frontier Life--Canada, Fur Trade, Metis).

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