A Life on the Line, 188: Commander Pierre-Etienne Fortin and His Times

by Brian Stewart and W. Brian Stewart

Pierre-?tienne Fortin led a life and plied a career at the heart of Canada's early history. He was an adventurer, an amateur scientist, an early (if ambiguous) conservationist and a Conservative politician from 1867 to 1888. He was a doctor on Grosse-?le amid the horrors of the 1847 typhus epidemic, led a mounted police troop during the infamous Montreal riots of 1849 and, as commander of the armed schooner La Canadienne, policed the Gulf of St. Lawrence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0886293154
• ISBN13: 9780886293154
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Carleton University Press
• Length: 218 Pages