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Broad is the way : stories from Mayerthorpe /
In 1949, Margaret Norquay moved with her new husband, a minister with the United Church of Canada, to Mayerthorpe, in northern Alberta, a village in the centre of what was in those days a pioneer hinterland. Broad Is the Way is a collection of stories from their seven years there. Told with affectio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waterloo, Ont. :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Life writing series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In 1949, Margaret Norquay moved with her new husband, a minister with the United Church of Canada, to Mayerthorpe, in northern Alberta, a village in the centre of what was in those days a pioneer hinterland. Broad Is the Way is a collection of stories from their seven years there. Told with affection and gentle humour, the stories cover the challenges, heartaches, and delights of a young community and a minister and his wife in a very new marriage. Topics include the experience of orphan children sent to work on Western farms, manoeuvring for a restroom downtown for farmers' wives in need of. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 102 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781435656307 143565630X 9781554581184 1554581184 1299313124 9781299313125 |