Marie Anne : The Frontier Spirit of Marie Anne Lagimodière

Card covers, 246 pages, 6x9 in - 15x22.5 cm.

Covers lightly worn, front cover creased and rubbed at bottom, back cover lightly bumped at bottom and rubbed at top corner. Spine starting to crease, head lightly bumped.

In subject and tone, this volume exemplifies Grant MacEwan’s historical work. Leavening historical accounts with invented period-appropriate conversations and emotions to produce a genre that he calls “fictionalized history” (vii), he presents a popular biography of Marie Anne Lagimodière, a settler in western Canada (and Louis Riel’s grandmother). Unlike many wives of fur traders in the early nineteenth century, Lagimodière accompanied her husband to the North-West, becoming one of the first settlers in the Red River area. MacEwan’s account is more than a story of struggling to settle in the west – Lagimodière's contact with the Métis makes her biography a viewing gallery of events in the growing conflict between the Métis and settler governments, as well as Manitoba’s incorporation as a Canadian province.

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