French-Canadian explorers, traders, and soldiers feature prominently in this country's storytelling, but little has been written about their female counterparts. In Along a River, award-winning historian Jan Noel shines a light on the lives of remarkable French-Canadian women -- immigrant brides, nuns, tradeswomen, farmers, governors' wives, and even smugglers -- during the period between the settlement of the St. Lawrence Lowlands and the Victorian...