Parker, Gilbert: Northern Lights. V1. 21 Mar 2010
 

Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC (November 23, 1862[citation needed] – September 6, 1932), known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, the son of Captain J. Parker, R.A.
He was educated at Ottawa and at University of Trinity College. Parker started as a teacher at the Ontario School for the deaf and dumb (in Belleville, Ontario). From there he went on to lecture at Trinity College. In 1886 he went to Australia, and for a while became associate editor of the Sydney Morning Herald. He also traveled extensively in the Pacific, Europe, Asia, Egypt, the South Sea Islands and subsequently in northern Canada. In the early nineties he began to gain a growing reputation in London as a writer of romantic fiction.

A LODGE IN THE WILDERNESS
ONCE AT RED MAN'S RIVER
THE STROBE OF THE HOUR
BUCKMASTER'S BOY
TO-MORROW
QU'APPELLE
THE STAKE AND THE PLUMB-LINE
WHEN THE SWALLOWS HOMEWARD FLY
GEORGE'S WIFE
MARCILE
A MAN, A FAMINE, AND A HEATHEN BOY
THE HEALING SPRINGS AND THE PIONEERS
THE LITTLE WIDOW OF JANSEN
WATCHING THE RISE OF ORION
THE ERROR OF THE DAY
THE WHISPERER
AS DEEP AS THE SEA