Irene Ternier Gordon
Irene Gordon lives along the Assiniboine River in Headingley, Manitoba, midway between The Forks and the White Horse Plains -- both of which appear in her book about Marie-Anne Lagimodiere and her upcoming book about the Battle of Seven Oaks and the Red River Settlement. She has had a passion for history and writing since childhood. After a career as a teacher-librarian, she became a freelance writer in 1998.
 

 

Marie-Anne Lagimodiere: The Incredible Story of Louis Riel's Grandmother

Read the story of the first white woman to become a permanent resident in what is now Western Canada. Marie-Anne Gaboury left her home in Quebec as bride in April 1806 and spent the remaining 70 years of her life in the West. She followed the buffalo hunt, learned to make pemmican, travelled by Red River cart, and took up farming. She gave birth to eight children -- one was born only hours after she was caught up in a buffalo stampede, and her youngest daughter grew up to become Louis Riel's mother.
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Grey Owl: The Curious Life of Archie Belaney
One of Canada's first and best-known conservationists was a man named Grey Owl, born in Mexico to an Apache mother and a Scottish father -- or was he? Read about the former fur trapper and fire ranger who, along with his beaver Jelly Roll, became the toast of Britain and the voice of Canada's National Parks for a brief time in the 1930s.
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  Irene Gordon will have her third book in the Amazing Stories series published later this year. It is tentatively titled The Battle of Seven Oaks and the Traumatic Birth of the Red River Settlement. It tells of the dramatic events surrounding  the establishment of the first agricultural settlement in what is now Western Canada by a Scottish nobleman named Lord Selkirk in 1812.
 
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