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Man Proposes, God Disposes Recollections of a French Pioneer

In 1910, young Pierre Maturié bid farewell to his comfortable bourgeois existence in rural France and travelled to northern Alberta in search of independence, adventure, and newfound prosperity. Some sixty years later, he wrote of the four years he spent in Canada before he returned to France in 1914 to fight in the First World War. Like that of so many youthful pioneers, his story is one of adventure and hardship—perilous journeys, railroad construction in the Rockies, panning for gold in swift-flowing streams, transporting goods for the Hudson’s Bay Company along the Athabasca River. Blessed with the rare gift of a natural storyteller, Maturié conveys his abiding nostalgia for a country he loved deeply yet ultimately had to abandon.

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Series Title
Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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272 pages
Publisher
Canada : AU Press.,
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Language
English
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9781926836553.01
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272 pages
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text
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computer
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online resource
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Memoir
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Statement of Responsibility
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Arin
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