Journey Through the Wilderness: Garnet Wolseley's Canadian Red River Expedition of 1870

by Paul McNicholls

Book Overview

In the spring of 1870 an Anglo-Canadian military force embarked on a 1,200 mile journey, half of which would be through the wilderness, bound for the Red River Settlement, the sight of present day Winnipeg. At the time the settlement was part of the vast Hudson's Bay Company controlled territories which Canada was in the process of purchasing.

Today Canada is the second largest country in the world, but at the time it was a recent creation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911628305
• ISBN13: 9781911628309
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.1" x 9.8"