Peter of the Prairies

<p>It is as a diarist that Peter Garrioch (1811-1888) teacher free trader trail-blazer contrarian smuggler farmer community leader has taken his place in the history of Rupert's Land and Western Canada. From 1837 to 1847 Peter kept a sporadic personal journal setting down in a distinctive voice both his own activities and the events big and small of the frontier life he observed around him as he developed into a leader of the Metis opposition to the Hudson's Bay Company's trading practices. Based on the unpublished typescript and notes of the diarist's nephew George Henry Gunn (1865 - 1945) the editors have added explanatory notes appendices and historical context to their publication of Peter's vivid diary account. </p>