Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson (Untold Lives Series)

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This title helps us continue moving forward in the right direction. I agree with the author that ‘everyone deserves a good story’ and as someone with an interest in historical geography I am fascinated by the events depicted in this work. This well researched, and impeccably well documented, telling lays bare the underbelly to the settlement history of Canada. Anyone who doesn’t get the arguments for land settlement claims by indigenous peoples would learn much from reading this book. Mr. Bourrie’s analysis of Radisson as an “eager hustler with no known scruples” seems to be on the mark. But those less-than-admirable traits helped create a prevailing mythology about his adventures. It also gave a Baron Munchausen-like quality to his stories that allowed him, in Gump-like fashion, to “Run Radisson Run” around the known world. Known to some as the first European to explore the upper Mississippi, and widely as the namesake of ships and hotel chains, Pierre-Esprit Radisson is perhaps best described as an eager hustler with no known scruples. Kidnapped by Mohawk warriors at the age of fifteen, Radisson assimilated and was adopted by a powerful family, only to escape to New York City after less than a year. After being recaptured, he defected from a raiding party to the Dutch and crossed the Atlantic to Holland, which begins a lifetime of seized opportunities and frustrated ambitions.

Mark Bourrie has written a classic Canadian historical biography … He weaves a compelling, sometimes lurid, but always enlightening narrative of the legendary adventurer, scoundrel, Pierre-Esprit Radisson.”

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There aren't too many. There is The Walrus, I would say maybe Chatelaine, maybe Macleans. Steve Maher wrote almost an entire issue of Macleans on how COVID got started in Canada. I mean, that's something Steve could have taken and made a book out of. Radisson and des Groseilliers claimed to have learned about a fur trade route at Lake Superior through the Sioux and Cree. This would have led to the 1660 trip to Hudson Bay, but Mr. Bourrie doubts it occurred. In his new book Bush Runner, Ottawa author Mark Bourrie portrays the European arrival much differently through an unvarnished account of the life of Pierre Radisson. Radisson has stayed in the history books for his role in developing the fur trade and helping to set the stage for the opening up of the continent to European settlement.

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Among the Ojibwa, an Algonquian people, collective enterprise revolved around “dozens of duodena, the clans that were the main social organizations in the community.” As in the Scottish Highlands, these clans had collective rights – in this case, controlling not farmlands but trade routes. Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson is a biography of Pierre-Esprit Radisson, co-founder of the Hudson's Bay Company. Mark Bourrie is a Canadian lawyer, blogger, journalist, author, historian, and lecturer at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, wrote this biography. Haricot beans can be sown two or three seeds to each pot. Sow about three weeks before you want to plant out. This will produce substantial, well-rooted plants that will get off to a flying start when planted out. Containers

Let's look at that first problem, because there are readers, right? I mean, is it non-fiction or Canadian non-fiction that they don't want to buy? Before that came about, Iroquois country was made up of not only forests and rivers but “vast fields of corn, walled towns so strong” that the English called them castles, and wide trails linking communities spread over 200 miles. The Iroquois cleared tens of thousands of acres in the forests and planted corns and beans, and men and women stayed in nearby cabins while clearing, planting and harvesting. A fascinating, funny, at times very gruesome and violent, but nevertheless wildly entertaining story.”There are things that are flourishing and literary non-fiction, in the sense of memoir, is doing really well. The work of people like Desmond Cole and Jesse Thistle, a whole pile of other young memoir writers, they're doing great work. They're selling lots of books. It's the other stuff that has problems. I honestly don't recall ever learning about Radisson at any point in school, but this sounded like a good adventure story - and it was. Bourrie was able to grab me right from the intro, where he actually had me laughing a couple times. He is serious about his subject, but is still able to add some levity to the tale. They can also be combined with other vegetables such as cut-and-come-again lettuce or bushy, trailing tomatoes. Watering

This works really well, the reason I don’t do it is that it is a lot of effort, and I don’t like runner beans enough to justify that effort! Watering Watering is crucial in the dry summer months However the Radisson story isn’t all long canoe trips and adventures in the North American wilderness. Bourrie chronicles his extended stays in France and England and the kind of shysters and schemers he connected with. There are bush varieties of scarlet runner beans as well as haricot or French beans. These can be grown in smaller pots, troughs or vegetable growing containers. They can even be grown in window boxes or balcony troughs.I’ve planted them out on the plot with VegTrellis for support. This is made of the same rigid wire framework as the Tomato Tower. By attaching the two panels in a V formation it will just sit on the soil surface and provide a metre height of support for the beans. This could be used in a VegTrug, ideally against a wall. I’ve planted red ‘Little Gem’ lettuces around my beans to make the most of the space while the beans are developing. Runner beans need a few hours sun a day, but are more tolerant of some shade than many vegetables. In fact some shade at midday can be advantage in preventing wilting. Haricot or French beans do best in an open sunny position. Sowing the seed Bush Runner also puts some context to the demands by Canada’s First Nations for recognition of their land and other claims.