Author: SMITH, E RUSSELL
Title: The raft of the skedaddlers
Description: Gatineau, Quebec, Baico Publishing. 2004, 1st Canadian Edition. (ISBN: 1894494857) Soft cover. Ill.: W.H.Bartlett. Book, 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. Fine. Inscribed by Author(s).

Keywords: 1894494857 W.H. Bartletthistorical Fiction Canada Ottawa Quebec