The Land of Open Doors : : Being Letters from Western Canada 1911-1913 / / J. Burgon Bickersteth.
The letters collected in this volume preserve the vivid and thoughtful impressions of a young man who came to western Canada in the early twentieth century. J. Burgon Bickersteth joined the Anglican mission in Edmonton a year after its establishment in 1910. As a lay missionary he travelled in the c...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1976 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- An introduction
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- IN MID-ATLANTIC
- WESTWARDS FROM MONTREAL
- FIRST EXPERIENCE OF WESTERN TRAILS
- BREAKING NEW GROUND
- SETTLERS AT HOME
- NEW CITIZENS OF CANADA
- A GREAT CITY
- ALONG THE NEW TRANSCONTINENTAL
- LUMBER CAMPS
- HEAD OF STEEL, AND BEYOND
- RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION CAMPS
- IN CENTRAL ALBERTA
- NEEDS AND EXPERIMENTS
- APPENDIX: SUMMARY FOR CANADA OF ALL RELIGIONS IN 1911 COMPARED WITH 1901
- Backmatter