LAND FOR THEIR INHERITANCE

by E. M. Granger Bennett ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1955

A not too fictional retelling of the life of Louis Hebert, and his family,- Hebert the French apothecary who was to sail for New France and become the first settler and farmer on Canadian soil- in Quebec. Here certainly the time, the place, and the long years of slow struggle take precedence: there is the lack of food and settlers and soldiers this colony faced; the threat of the Indians; the even more dangerous hostility of Champlain's agent, Beaumons. For the Heberts there was the tragedy of the death of their oldest daughter, Anne; the renewal of hope in Guillemette- their second daughter- who with her marriage to the carpenter Gouillard chooses the life of this new land; the death of Hebert, and the final disappointment when the English take over the French settlement... A sober, steadfast, and perhaps- for some tastes, too subdued narrative of these earlier lives of vision and endurance.

Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1955

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Bouregy & Curl

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1955

Categories: FICTION