Reluctant Homesteader: A French Settler’s Story, Part One

Narrates the story of Victor Colvez who, with his family, immigrated to Canada from the town of Rennes in Brittany in France, and settled in the Prince Albert Area. Part One: A Parting of the Ways - explains how Colvez was recruited as a homesteader by the priest Father Le Floc’h, and how upon arriving in Prince Albert, realized that he was not equipped for homesteading and elected instead to take a job as the manager of the new fur trade post in Green Lake. Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 24.