Description
Canadians on the Nile, 1882-1898 is a lively description of
Canada's romantic and little known involvement in the greatest
imperial drama of Queen Victoria's later years. Chosen for their
unique skills, 400 English- and French-speaking Canadian voyageurs
transported imperial forces up the Nile in a daring attempt to rescue
"Chinese" Gordon, besieged in Khartoum. A generation later,
their imperial work was completed by another Canadian, Sir Percy
Girouard, who built the desert railway which enabled Kitchener to
capture Khartoum in 1898.
Offering fresh insights to the general reader as well as to
historians and students, this authoritative work is also a perceptive,
exciting, and humorous account of a curious way station along the
meandering road to Canadian nationhood.