""Forest, Lake And Prairie: Twenty Years Of Frontier Life In Western Canada, 1842-1862"" is a memoir written by John McDougall, a Scottish Presbyterian minister who emigrated to Canada in 1842. The book chronicles his experiences living and working in the western Canadian frontier for two decades, from the early days of settlement to the outbreak of the American Civil War.McDougall's memoir provides a firsthand account of the challenges and triumphs...