Alone in silence : European women in the Canadian North before 1940 /

Alone in silence : European women in the Canadian North before 1940 / / Barbara E. Kelcey.

This book details the struggles of the over 500 European women who travelled or lived in Canada's Northwest Territories before 1940 to set up a home in the harsh environment. The geography also forced them to adjust they way they worked. For instance, letters and reports of the Grey Nuns who...

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Superior document:McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 27
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Year of Publication:2001
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Physical Description:xii, 227 p. :; ill., maps, ports.
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Alone in silence [electronic resource] : European women in the Canadian North before 1940 / Barbara E. Kelcey.
Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.
xii, 227 p. : ill., maps, ports.
McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 27
Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-219) and index.
This book details the struggles of the over 500 European women who travelled or lived in Canada's Northwest Territories before 1940 to set up a home in the harsh environment. The geography also forced them to adjust they way they worked. For instance, letters and reports of the Grey Nuns who worked alongside the Oblate Fathers in the Mackenzie indicate the hardships imposed by their situation but also show how driven they were by their missionary purpose.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Women, White Canada, Northern History.
Europeans Canada, Northern History.
Frontier and pioneer life Northwest Territories.
Canada, Northern Social conditions.
Northwest Territories History.
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