From 1837 to 1847, Peter Garrioch 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Based on the unpublished typescript and notes of the diarist’s nephew, George Henry Gunn (1865 – 1945), the editors have added explanatory notes, appendices, and historical context to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.
