Chaudière Falls

On March 7, 1800, Philemon Wright, a farmer from Woburn, Massachusetts, arrives on the north shore of the Ottawa River in Hull Township. On September 1, 1860, on the south side of the river, Queen Victoria’s son, Prince Albert Edward, lays the cornerstone for Canada’s Parliament Buildings on Barrack Hill in Ottawa. While Chaudière Falls:  A Novel of Dramatized History dramatizes the real events that unfold between those two dates—Wright’s determination to establish a community of farmers, t