Angus Fraser: Alta.

B.J. Bayle Dundurn Dept: Red River Rising by Cochrane, Alta., author B.J. Bayle Dundurn, 273 pages, $13 paperback tells their story through the eyes of 15-year-old Angus Fraser, a fictional character based on a composite of a number of the settlers who sailed from Scotland in 1813, according to Winnipeg Free Press. We agonize with the Fraser family as they lose a son and struggle to build a home only to have it burned down, but refuse to give up on Selkirk's unfortunate settlement and iT'S appropriate that as we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the first Selkirk settlers in Manitoba there should be a book launched for young people about the trials and tribulations that awaited those early pioneers. The hardships faced by these unprepared newcomers, from disease on shipboard to wintering in tents near the shore of Hudson Bay, and their dismay to be caught in the warfare between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, is told in realistic detail. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.