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Smith, E Russell, W.H.Bartlett

The raft of the skedaddlers

Baico Publishing, 2004

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Year of publication
2004
ISBN
1894494857
Place of printing
Gatineau, Quebec
Author
Smith, E Russell
Publishers
Baico Publishing
Edition
1st Canadian Edition.
Keyword
HISTORICAL FICTION CANADA OTTAWA QUEBEC
Illustrator
W.H.Bartlett
Binding description
S
Inscription description
Inscribed by Author(s)
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
Yes
First edition
Yes

Description

Before he settled in Gloucester Township, on land that is now part of Ottawa Braddish Billings traded in timber along the Rideau and Ottawa rivers. In 1810 he and a crew of other ex-patriot American "skedaddlers" took a raft of white oak barrel staves from the Rideau front to Quebec City=-a venture which proved to be disastrous. Included in his crew was his nephew Elkanah Stowell the narrator of this tale fifty years later.a chronicle of adventure and romance on the Canadian frontier. 161p.map.illus. Signed on title page.