An account of the first overland journey from Fort Garry to the Cariboo. Includes an account of the state of the Cariboo district at the time of writing and biographical sketches of some of those who took part in the arduous trek.

In mid-nineteenth-century Britain, there existed a dominant discourse on what it meant to be a man –denoted by the term 'manliness'. Based on the sociological work of R.W. Connell and others who argue that gender is performative, Robert Hogg asks how British men performed manliness on the colonial frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia.

Spurred on by reports of gold in the Cariboo, adventurers from all overthe world descended on British Columbia in the mid-1800s. Among themwere ambitious easterners who accepted the challenge of the shorter butmore arduous overland route across the prairies and the Rockies. Onesuch man determined to find his fortune in the West was ThomasMcMicking -- destined to lead the largest and best organized group of'Overlanders' into British Columbia. His record of their epicjourney is a valuable historical document that possesses the universalappeal of an adventure story. McMicking presents a vivid image of thehardships of the overland route, the dangers, both real and imagined --like the apparently threatening Plains Indians who turned out to be'our best friends' -- facts about important officials andsettlements, and scientific observations of the physical environment.But this is also a very human document that describes a journey ofself- discovery revealing a sensitive man's encounter with abountiful and beautiful yet hostile and alien land.

Hailed as a landmark in Canadian literary scholarship when it was originally published in 1965, the Literary History of Canada is now being reissued, revised and enlarged, in three volumes. This major effort of a large group of scholars working in the field of English-language Canadian literature provides a comprehensive, up-to-date reference work. It has already proven itself invaluable as a source of information on authors, genres, and literary trends and influences. It represents a positive attempt to give a history of Canada in terms of writings which deserve attention because of significant thought, form, and use of language. Volume I comprises Parts I to III of the original edition, and covers the years from the beginning of Canadian literature in English to about 1920. The contributors to this volume are David Galloway, Victor G. Hopwood, Alfred G. Bailey, Fred Cogswell, James and Ruth Talman, Carl F. Klinck, Edith Gordon Roper, Rupert Schieder, S. Ross Beharriell, Brandon Conron, Elizabeth Waterston, Alec Lucas, John A. Irving, A.H. Johnson, A. Vibert Douglas, and Frank W. Watt.