Historical drama detailing the adventures of 'La Salle' the early French explorer of North America. Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC (1862 – 1932), known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician. The best of his novels are those in which he first took for his subject the history and life of the French Canadians; and his permanent literary reputation rests on the fine quality, descriptive and dramatic, of his Canadian stories.