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Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country Memories of a Mother and Son

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 “eating fish twenty-one times a week,” the young Upper Canada wife rose to the challenge. In these remote outposts, she gave birth to three children, acted as a nurse and doctor, and applied both perseverance and determination to learning Cree, while also coping with poverty and short supplies within her community. Her account of mission life, as seen through the eyes of a woman, is the first of its kind to be archived and now to appear in print.

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Series Title
Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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336 pages
Publisher
Canada : AU Press.,
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Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9781771990035.01
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336 pages
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Media Type
computer
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online resource
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Jennifer S. H. Brown
Subject(s)
Indigenous Studies, Memoir, Women
Canadian History, Gender Studies, History
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Arin
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