The Journeys of Remarkable Women: Their Travels on the Canadian Frontier

Don Crosby is a journalist in Durham, Ontario.

This book presents the stories of 21 women who lived remarkable lives.
The stories take place between the late 1700s and the mid-1900s, and
feature a duchess, a botanist, Louis Riel’s grandmother, Queen
Victoria’s maid of honor, a women masquerading as a man, and a Russian
immigrant who walked from New York City to Siberia in 1927, among
others. The women endured every imaginable hardship, from starvation and
shipwreck to kidnapping and scandal—and often “with children in
tow.” Moreover, many of them surpassed frontier men in bravery,
determination, and longevity.

This well-researched book, which includes a selected bibliography,
constantly piques the reader’s interest. It is difficult to but the
book down, as one action-packed odyssey after another rolls out, each
one better than the last.