Peter of the Prairies: The Red River Diaries of Peter Garrioch 1837 - 1847 - Couverture souple

Gibson, Dale; Mosher Anderson, Sandra

 
9781773545943: Peter of the Prairies: The Red River Diaries of Peter Garrioch 1837 - 1847
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1773545949 ISBN 13 : 9781773545943
Editeur : PageMaster Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

It is as a diarist that Peter Garrioch (1811-1888), teacher, free trader, trail-blazer, contrarian, smuggler, farmer, community leader, has taken his place in the history of Rupert’s Land and Western Canada. From 1837 to 1847, Peter kept a sporadic personal journal, setting down in a distinctive voice both his own activities and the events big and small of the frontier life he observed around him as he developed into a leader of the Metis opposition to the Hudson’s Bay Company’s trading practices. Based on the unpublished typescript and notes of the diarist’s nephew, George Henry Gunn (1865 – 1945), the editors have added explanatory notes, appendices, and historical context to their publication of Peter’s vivid diary account.

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À propos des auteurs

Dale Gibson was Professor Emeritus of Law, University of Manitoba, where he taught from 1959 to 1991; in 1991, he was appointed the Belzberg Professor of Constitutional Studies, University of Alberta, where he taught until 2001, after which he practiced law full time and pursued his avocation of writing prolifically about Prairie legal history. Earlier in his career, he was an advisor to the Federal and Manitoba governments during the patriation of the Canadian Constitution and wrote several of the earliest books on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He also chaired the Manitoba Human Rights Commission.

Sandra Anderson holds a Ph.D. in German from Northwestern University and an L.L.B. from the University of Calgary, and practiced labour/employment and privacy law in Edmonton until retiring in 2011. After Dale's death in in 2022, she too immersed herself in Prairie history and completed her husband Dale Gibson's final book: the editing of Peter Garrioch's diaries.

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Éditeur
PageMaster Publishing
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1773545949
ISBN 13 
9781773545943
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
454
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