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It’s the end of the line for Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Last Crossing

Posted by Kimberly Walsh on September 02 at 08:00 AM

We’ve reached the final episodes of Guy Vanderhaeghe’s frontier tale The Last Crossing (McClelland & Stewart). At this point in the story, Charles is still in the British territories that will one day become the Canadian prairie provinces.

His elder brother Addington has died fighting a grizzly bear and Charles has fallen in love with a young widow, Lucy Stoveall. He still hasn’t found his missing twin, Simon, but there is one final clue.

Episode 19: Charles and Simon are reunited with startling results.





Episode 20: Charles finally discovers what Custis Straw has been trying to tell him.





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