Cornerstone Colony: Selkirks Contribution to the Canadian West by Grant MacEwan Signed by the Author 1977 Illustrated History Hardcover Book

Cornerstone Colony: Selkirks Contribution to the Canadian West by Grant MacEwan Signed by the Author 1977 Illustrated History Hardcover Book

<Condition is Very Good as Pictured> (normal wear with markings, visible edge-wear, slightly bumped/rubbed corners, age appropriate toning to interior pages, signed/inscribed by the author on title page) size is approximately 9” x 6”

—Lord Selkirk's vision of a land of agricultural prosperity was realized through the determination and efforts of his Red River settlers. He and his settlers had to contend with angry fur traders and hostile Métis who regarded the area as their exclusive domain and twice tried to eradicate the settlement; in addition, the colony was forced to cope with the natural hazards of grasshoppers, frost, vermin, and floods. The weaker succumbed and departed; the stronger, inspired by Lord Selkirk, stayed to fight a long but winning battle over man and nature and to populate the region with pioneer stock of the sturdiest kind.
Western Canada's great agricultural industry of yesterday and today has been Selkirk's unacknowledged monument. But his contribution is at last acknowledged in the permanent form of an inspiring book… Cornerstone Colony.

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