Patterson, Raymond Murray

PATTERSON, Raymond Murray, writer (b 13 May 1898, Darlington, England; d 20 Oct 1984, Victoria). Following studies at Oxford Univ, service in WWI and three years at the Bank of England, he immigrated to a dairy farm in BC early in 1924. By the fall he was homesteading in the Peace River district of Alberta. On a whim, he embarked on a canoe trip on the South Nahanni River in the summer of 1927. He returned to spend the winter of 1928–29 prospecting for gold but found only fur. He moved with...

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