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Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country Memories of a Mother and Son
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BROWN,Jennifer S. H.YOUNG,Elizabeth BinghamYOUNG,E. Ryerson

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. Unprepared for the difficult conditions and the “eight months long” winter, and unimpressed with …

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Jennifer S. H. Brown
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9781771990035.01
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Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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336 pages
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Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country Memories of a Mother and Son
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BROWN,Jennifer S. H.YOUNG,Elizabeth BinghamYOUNG,E. Ryerson

Accompanying Elizabeth’s memoir, and offering a counterpoint to it, are the reminiscences 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 among the children of missionaries. Like those of…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781771990035.01
Collation
-
Series Title
Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
Call Number
336 pages