The White Chief of the Ottawa

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PHILEMON WRIGHT. MRS. WRIGHT.
. . . By . . .
Bertha Wright Carr-Harris
With seven full-page illustrations by John Innes
TORONTO WILLIAM BRIGGS 1903
Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand nine hundred and three, by BERTHA WRIGHT CARR-HARRIS, at the Department of Agriculture.
PREFACE.
The White Chief of the Ottawa is not fiction. It is not a tale with a carefully concealed plot, meant to delude the reader at the beginning and to surprise him at the end. It is something stranger than fiction, a sketch of the life experiences of Philemon Wright and his family, the first settlers in the district of Ottawa. With the exception of the love of Abbie and Chrissy, which are based upon fact, the story is mainly a simple recital of actual facts which cannot be controverted.
The writer is indebted to the following for furnishing valuable data:
Diary and letters of Philemon Wright, 1806-1816.