Pilgrimage protagonist deer and even other people’s

deer and even other people’s pets

But Sam is a successful novelist—or will be soon

Waterton and Canmore

Winner of the Gourmand International Wine Books Award 2011 for Canada

Alberta’s first hop farm

Pilgrimage protagonist deer and even other people’sPilgrimage opens in the deep winter of 1891 on the Mtis settlement of Lac St. Anne. Known as Manito Sakahigan in Cree, Spirit Lake has been renamed for the patron saint of childbirth. It is here that people journey in search of tradition, redemption, and miracles. On this harsh and beautiful land, four interconnected people try to make a life in the colonial Northwest: Mahkess Cardinal, a young Mtis girl pregnant by the Hudson Bay Company manager;