Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations viii
4. Preface ix
5. The Commander and La Canadienne 1
6. Fortins Ancestors and his Youth 17
7. Fighting Plagues and Mobs 31
8. The Commander and His Domain 47
9. Sellout of the Gulf 61
10. Magistrate and Policeman 75
11. A Company Man? 87
12. The War of the Candle Snuffers 105
13. Naturalist and Conservationist 113
14. Conservation versus Jobs 125
15. “Our Rivers Taken from Us” 135
16. Fighting with the Bureaucrats 145
17. Fortin, the Conservatives, and Confederation 153
18. A Constituency Man 167
19. Final Days 185
20. Sources 199
21. Index 209