On a cold and rainy day in November of 1838, a young, recently ordained priest from Qu bec paddled into Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River with the Hudson's Bay Company brigade ready to begin his life as the first Catholic missionary in the Pacific Northwest. A Mustard Seed Sown in a Vast Field is both a family saga and an unfolding of North American history, the ordeals of the fur traders, the Hudson's Bay Company, indigenous tribes, Spanish, Russian,...
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