Transcontinental Pedestrians: The First Walk Across Canada from Sea to Sea

by George Hart

Book Overview

In the annals of Canadian folklore, few stories are as ripe with adventure and the spirit of the times as that of the three young Cape Bretoners who, on a dare and a bet, set out from North Sydney,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550413457
• ISBN13: 9781550413458
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Family Story

Growing up in Boston I heard this story of how I had a relative who was the first man to ever walk successfully accross Canada. But since I didn't know any of my relatives back in Canada until recently and since my dad passed away when I was very young, I never followed up on this bit family history. Recently I had an opportunity to visited my cousins Helen from Vancouver, Joan from Toronto, Jean from Waltham and Malcolm and his wife Terri from Roslendale,Ma. It was at this meeting that I was given this book the "Transcontinental Pedestrians" by my cousin Malcolm "right out of the blue"! I took it home, began reading it and I couldn't put it down. I'm finished with the book now and I am in the process of letting all my family know about how wonderful this adventure story about my cousin John Hugh Gillis's journey really was. I only wish I had been born at the time this great story was happening and had a chance to meet this famous member of the Gillis clan. He must have been quite an amazing fellow. I want to thank Mr George Edward Hart for writing this book about a truely remarkable event in Canadian and Gillis family history.