A comprehensive new look at the life and times of Canada's fifth - and least understood - prime minister, including the January 1896 coup where seven of Bowell's cabinet ministers forced his resignation so Sir Charles Tupper could lead the Conservatives into the ill-fated June 1896 election.
In 1870, Colonel Garnet Wolseley set off for Red River with 1,100 soldiers to end the rebellion started by Louis Riel. Two reporters accompanied the military expedition, the Daily Telegraph's Robert Cunningham and the Globe's Molyneux St. John, as well as St. John's wife, international burlesque star Kate Ranoe.