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Fair in Fair dust jacket. "Peter Fidler was one of Canada's greatest exploratory surveyors, and one of the few men who laid the framework for all maps of Western Canada. His story is one of bravery, stamina, and above all, loyalty. Fidler has much to tell us of the Indian tribes, the effect of the coming of the white man, the rivalry between the Hudson's Bay and the North West companies, and the establishment of the Red River Settlement in 1812."-dust jacket. xix, [I], 265, [I] pp. Index, black and white plates, maps. Bit of writing atop map front free endpaper. Prior owner's rubber stamp atop half-title. Moderate lean to spine. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average external wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound reference copy of this fascinating insight into nineteenth-century life in Canada's first colony in the West. Spadoni & Donnelly 1886, Aubin & Linteau 09878, Abler 820.; 8vo.
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Near fine. First edition xix, 265 pp. Octavo. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Cartographic endpapers. Light shelfwear. Complete illustrations and maps. Signed by author on title page. Text is clean. Both jacket and book are very good + to near fine condition. The engaging biography of the surveyor, Peter Fidler, who helped open up Western Canada in first quarter of the 19th Century. Told with excerpts from Fidler's journal and reproductions of some of Fidler's maps, this biography looks to put Fidler along side David Thompson in mapping, exploring, and writing about the Canadian West. Illustrated throughout with maps and black and white illustrations.