Background
Marjorie Elliott Wilkins was born in London, England, to Mary Eleanor Elliott and William Herbert Wilkins.
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("We had to pass where no human being should venture." O...)
"We had to pass where no human being should venture." On the morning of May 28, 1808, Simon Fraser, two clerks, two Native guides, and nineteen voyageurs set out in four frail birch-bark canoes from Fort George on the Pacific slope of the Rocky Mountains. Before them was an unnamed and unexplored river that led south and, Fraser hoped, west to the Pacific coast. Every bend threatened new dangers - impassable rapids, treacherous portages, unfriendly Natives. But in seventy-one days, Fraser and his party fought their way to the mouth of the savage river and back to Fort George. Fraser's journey on the river named for him is one of the most remarkable feats in the exploration of western Canada. Although Fraser failed to find the navigable canoe route to the Pacific, so desperately needed by the North West Company, his exploration helped to secure for Great Britain - and for Canada - the vast territory that became British Columbia. The Savage River is a gripping account by award-winning author Marjorie Wilkins Campbell of one of the greatest adventures in Canadian history. First published in 1968, the book is base on Simon Fraser's journal of his remarkable hourney on the river that bears his name.
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Marjorie Elliott Wilkins was born in London, England, to Mary Eleanor Elliott and William Herbert Wilkins.
Marjorie was educated in Swift Current and Toronto.
They emigrated to the Qu"Appelle Valley in Saskatchewan in 1904. In addition to publishing novels and biographies focused on Canadian history and exploration, Campbell worked as an editor for Magazine Digest and published numerous articles in Chatelaine, Saturday Night, and Maclean"son
She who won two Governor General"s Literary Awards for the best works of the year, one of the two 1950 non-fiction awards for The Saskatchewan and the Governor General"s Award for Juvenile Fiction in 1954 for The Nor"Westers. Over the course of her writing career she won multiple awards including Canada Council awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Order of Canada.
("We had to pass where no human being should venture." O...)
