TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Jennifer S.H.
AU  - Young,Elizabeth Bingham
AU  - Young,E.Ryerson
TI  - Mission life in Cree-Ojibwe country: memories of a mother and son 
T2  - Our lives: diary, memoir, and letters
SN  - 9781771990035
AV  - BV2815.M3 Y68 2014
U1  - 266/.7092 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Edmonton, Alberta
PB  - AU Press
KW  - Young, Elizabeth Bingham.
KW  - Young, E. Ryerson
KW  - Missionaries
KW  - Manitoba
KW  - Biography
KW  - Methodists
KW  - Methodist Church
KW  - Missions
KW  - Mothers and sons
KW  - Cree Indians
KW  - Ojibwa Indians
KW  - Missionnaires
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Mères et fils
KW  - Cris (Premières Nations)
KW  - Ojibwa
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Religious
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Ministry
KW  - fast
KW  - Rossville Mission
KW  - Methodist missionary
KW  - Ojibwe
KW  - Norway House
KW  - Egerton Ryerson Young
KW  - material culture
KW  - Cree
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: Untitled Memoir of Elizabeth Bingham Young, 1927 -- “1859 & Sixtys� -- Leaving Home -- The Invitation to the North West -- From Hamilton to Detroit -- The Travelling Party -- Detroit to Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Red River -- Sojourn at Red River -- From Red River to Norway House -- Settling in at Rossville Mission -- The First Cree Visitors -- September 1868: A Brief Separation -- The Chief Factor�s Cariole Ride -- “Giving Out Medicines�; More on the WomenThe Visit of Tapastanum -- Queen Victoria�s Picture -- Fish, More Fish, and Household Help -- The Annual Requisition for Supplies -- Christmas, a Recent Introduction -- The New Year�s Feast -- Smallpox and Measles -- The Arrival of Eddie, June 1869 -- Little Mary and Eddie -- Winter Travel and the Home Front -- Prayer Meetings and Parcels -- The Arrival of Lillian -- Special Potatoes -- “Still at Norway House� -- The Birth of Nellie and the Pitfalls of Hospitality -- Two Farewells -- Back in Ontario, 1873�74; From Ontario to Berens River“Where Are My Quilts?� -- A Mother�s Crisis -- Christmas Anxiety, 1875 -- The Birth of Florence and Other Memories -- Witnessing Treaty 5 (and Two Mysterious Deaths) -- Comment: Elizabeth Young�s Berens River Experience in Retrospect -- Leaving Berens River, 1876 -- Life in Ontario Parsonages: Port Perry, Colborne, and Bowmanville -- Our Last Two Children and Another Loss -- Postscripts -- Elizabeth Bingham Young: Method in Her Methodism -- Mission Wives at Rossville: Some Comparisons; PART II “ A Missionary and His Son� and Subsequent ReminiscencesIntroduction -- A Missionary and His Son -- 1 Born at Norway House -- 2 So Little to Do With -- 3 Going to Church -- 4 “ Lend Me Your Little Boy� -- 5 Scientific Evenings -- 6 The Food Supply -- 7 My Mission Sisters -- 8 Talking -- 9 Operations -- 10 Pemmican -- 11 The Fish Pond -- 12 The Big Bad Wolf -- 13 Dogs -- 14 Welcome Home -- Reminiscences of 1962 for the Years 1876 to 1898 -- Leaving Berens River, 1876 -- School in Port Perry, 1876�79 -- Other Memories of Port Perry; School Troubles and Father�s ResponseGrace Amanda and the Death of Jack -- Colborne, 1879�82 -- Bowmanville, 1882�85 -- Meaford, Brampton, and a Family Reunion -- Four Decades in Methodist Church Ministry, 1892�1932 -- “ As Darkness Steals upon Mine Eyes� : A Poem -- 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; PDF: Unrestricted online access
N2  - 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. Her account of mission life is accompanied by that of her eldest son, ""Eddie."" Born at Norway House in 1869 and nursed by a Cree woman from infancy, Eddie was immersed in local Cree and Ojibwe life, culture, and language, in many ways exemplifying the process of reverse acculturation often in evidence amo
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