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Parker, Horatio Gilbert (Sir): 1862-1932. Born at Camden East, Ontario; ordained deacon of Church of England, 1882; engaged in journalism in Australia, 1885-1889; to England to write historical fiction, 1889; in British House of Commons for Unionist party, 1900-1918; wrote many novels and short stories as well as some verse, a travel book, and a book on the First World War (Wallace, Dictionary of Canadian biography ). // Also published, New York & London: Harper & Brothers, [1916] ([9], 1 leaf, 3-405, [1]p.); London: W. Heinemann, [1916] (x, 332p.); New York: A.L. Burt Co., 1916 ([14], 405, [2], [10]p.); London: T. Nelson, [1919?] (382p.); imperial edition, New York: Scribner, 1917 (373p.); Toronto: Copp, Clark, [1919] (405p.); Toronto: Copp, Clark, [c1919] (xiv, 407p.). Novel set in a multi-racial community in Manitoba, in the pioneer period.