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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781442680074
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082 0 4 _a971.1/0082
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBarman, Jean
_eautore
245 1 0 _aSojourning Sisters :
_bThe Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen /
_cJean Barman.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[2003]
264 4 _c©2003
300 _a1 online resource (336 p.)
336 _atext
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520 _aShortly after the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1886, two young sisters from Pictou County, Nova Scotia, took the train west to British Columbia. Jessie and Annie McQueen each intended to teach there for three years and then return home. In fact they remained sojourners between British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and Ontario for much of their lives.Drawing on family correspondence and supported by extensive engagement with current scholarship, Jean Barman tells the sisters' stories and, in doing so, offers a new interpretation of early settlement across Canada. As did many other women of these years, Jessie and Annie McQueen remained bound by daughterhood's obligations and sisterhood's bonds even as they got involved in their new communities. Barman takes seriously women as sojourners and uses Jessie and Annie McQueen's letters home to evoke the boundless energy and enthusiasm shown by the thousands of women who helped to form Canada's frontiers. Like other sojourners, the McQueen sisters did not come to their new home empty handed. They brought with them a distinctly Scottish Presbyterian way of life, consistent with ideas of the nation being promoted in the public realm by fellow Nova Scotians such as George Monro Grant. Confident in their assumptions, including the central role of religion in the formation of a grand national vision, women like these sisters were critical in uniting Canada from coast to coast. Broad in its critical approach and nuanced in its interpretations, Sojourning Sisters is a major contribution to the field of life writing and to the political, gender, and social history of Canada.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aFrontier and pioneer life
_zBritish Columbia.
650 0 _aWomen
_zBritish Columbia
_vBiography.
650 0 _aWomen
_zNova Scotia
_vBiography.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Canada / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442680074
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