Mission life in Cree-Ojibwe country : : memories of a mother and son / / Elizabeth Bingham Young and E. Ryerson Young ; edited and with introductions by Jennifer S.H. Brown.
In May of 1868, Elizabeth Bingham Young and her new husband, Egerton Ryerson Young, began a long journey from Hamilton, Ontario, to the Methodist mission of Rossville. For the next eight years, Elizabeth supported her husband’s work at two mission houses, Norway House and then Berens River. Unprepar...
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| Superior document: | Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edmonton, Alberta : : AU Press,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Our lives--diary, memoir, and letters.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (337 pages) :; illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I Untitled memoir of Elizabeth Bingham Young, 1927. Postscripts. Elizabeth Bingham Young : method in her Methodism
- Mission Wives at Rossville : some comparisions
- Part II "A missionary and his son" and subsequent reminiscences, by E. Ryerson Young. Introduction
- A missionary and his son
- Reminiscences of 1962 for the years 1876 to 1898
- "As darkness steals upon mine eyes" : a poem by E. Ryerson Young, on his blindness
- Part III Supplementary documents and excerpts. 1 Resolution, Quarterly Board of Hamilton City East Circuit, 4 May 1868
- 2 The Rope from Hamilton
- 3 Adventure with a Bull at Norway House
- 4 Letters of Clarissa Bingham and Sarah Bingham to Elizabeth and Egerton Young, 1868-69
- 5 "A Great Surprise to the Missionaries Wife": Moss
- 6 Women's Work
- 7 Sandy Harte
- 8 Egerton R. Young's Illness with Typhoid, 1872
- 9 Schooling in Rossville: The "Infant Class" and Miss Batty's Thoughts on Shawls
- 10 "Thanks to the Kind Ladies of Canada" : Egerton Young to the Christian Guardian
- 11 Transitions, 1873-74: Letters from Egerton to Elizabeth Young
- 12 Elizabeth Young's Second Account of Ontario and Berens River, 1873-76
- 13 Two Letters from the Reverend Enoch Wood Regarding the Youngs' Appointment to Berens River
- 14 Letter from Little Mary to Egerton R. Young, 1887
- 15 Letter from Alex Kennedy, the Youngs' Dog Driver, to Egerton R. Young, 1890
- 16 Elizabeth Bingham Young: Appreciations and Memories.