Companions of the Peace : : Diaries and Letters of Monica Storrs, 1931-1939 / / Monica Storrs; ed. by Vera K. Fast.
In 1929 a cultured English gentlewoman arrived in the barely settled wilderness of northern British Columbia as an Anglican missionary, intending to assuage her sense of duty by staying for one year. She stayed for twenty-one. The years covered by Monica Storrs' journal entries (1931 - 1939) we...
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Storrs, Monica, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Companions of the Peace : Diaries and Letters of Monica Storrs, 1931-1939 / Monica Storrs; ed. by Vera K. Fast. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016] ©1999 1 online resource (248 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Diaries and Letters, 1931-1939-Part I -- Diaries and Letters, 1931-1939-Part II -- Postscript -- Notes -- Photo Credits -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In 1929 a cultured English gentlewoman arrived in the barely settled wilderness of northern British Columbia as an Anglican missionary, intending to assuage her sense of duty by staying for one year. She stayed for twenty-one. The years covered by Monica Storrs' journal entries (1931 - 1939) were at times unbearably hard, the depression compounding what was already a demanding existence. She and the group of women she lived with, the Companions of the Peace, were sent out as 'missionaries of empire.' As the journals progress, Storrs' droll British wit persists but her imperialistic attitude softens as her work draws her into the lives around her. Expanding on the initial mandate to start Sunday schools, foster contact with women, and perform church services, she became involved in assembling libraries, lending money for seed grain, financing medical assistance, and organizing theatrical performances and poetry contests. After her death even the non-British inhabitants of the Peace River district described her as 'one of us.'Helped by the judicious editing of historian Vera Fast, these penetrating journal entries make for an unusually absorbing read, with rare details for scholars of British imperialism, Canadian pioneering, and women's life writing, but with enough story and humour to engage any reader. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Frontier and pioneer life Peace River Valley (B.C. and Alta.). Pioneers Peace River Valley (B.C. and Alta.) Correspondence. Pioneers Peace River Valley (B.C. and Alta.) Diaries. Women pioneers Peace River Valley (B.C. and Alta.) Diaries. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women. bisacsh Fast, Vera K., editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 9783110490947 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442673168 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442673168 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442673168.jpg |
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