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

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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 wo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kelcey, Barbara E. (Barbara Eileen), 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2001.
Series:McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 27.
Subjects:
Women, White > Canada, Northern > History.
Europeans > Canada, Northern > History.
Blanches > Canada (Nord) > Histoire.
Européens > Canada (Nord) > Histoire.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Rural.
Europeans
Social conditions
Women, White
Europäerin
Vrouwen.
Europeanen.
Geschichte 1900-1940.
Canada, Northern > Social conditions.
Northwest Territories > History.
Canada (Nord) > Conditions sociales.
Territoires du Nord-Ouest > Histoire.
Northern Canada
Northwest Territories
Kanada > Nord
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A long while between dog teams: climate, communications, and isolation
  • Meatless, wheatless, and sweetless days: the domestic arrangements of a northern home
  • "Speaking of me and Franklin": women travellers in the arctic
  • Travels with the "more realistic" sex in the 1920's and 1930's
  • "Standing in the gap": anglican women and the northern mission
  • "Faith inspires, distinguishes, and explains it": the grey nuns' mission in the north
  • White women have strange ways: connections and distinctions between cultures
  • "A certain amount of unpleasantness": one woman's encounter with the Holy Trinity of the north.

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