A Small Compass: A story about women adventurers during the fur trade.

Cinda Gault

Apr 2023 · Grey Goose Press Inc.

About this ebook

In 1806, Isobel Gunn was staring down the inevitability of a spinster's farm life in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, often referred to as the Island of Women. At the same time, across the ocean in Maskinongé, Quebec, Marie-Anne Gaboury is facing the prospect that her dashing new coureur de bois husband will leave her a fur trade widow when he returns west to the wilderness.  Both women launch on perilous voyages that will change them forever and transform them into legends.  A Small Compass is the story of the first two non-indigenous women to venture into the western Canadian wilderness. They meet and must help each other battle what they do and don't know to defend all they love.

About the author

Cinda Gault holds a Ph.D. in English, specializing in Canadian national identity issues in women’s writing of the 1960s and 1970s. She teaches and writes about Canadian literature and lives in Toronto, Ontario. Her fiction includes This Godforsaken Place, a historical set in 1885 against a background of the Louis Riel rebellion with appearances by Riel’s general, Gabriel Dumont, and Wild Bill Cody’s Wild West Show star Annie Oakley. For a complete list of her work, visit Cinda at www.cindagault.com.