The Resource Alone in silence : European women in the Canadian North before 1940, Barbara E. Kelcey
Alone in silence : European women in the Canadian North before 1940, Barbara E. Kelcey
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The item Alone in silence : European women in the Canadian North before 1940, Barbara E. Kelcey represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item Alone in silence : European women in the Canadian North before 1940, Barbara E. Kelcey represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- This book details the struggles of the over 500 European women who travelled or lived in Canada's Northwest Territories before 1940 to set up a home in the harsh environment. The geography also forced them to adjust they way they worked. For instance, letters and reports of the Grey Nuns who worked alongside the Oblate Fathers in the Mackenzie indicate the hardships imposed by their situation but also show how driven they were by their missionary purpose
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 227 pages)
- Contents
-
- A long while between dog teams: climate, communications, and isolation
- Meatless, wheatless, and sweetless days: the domestic arrangements of a northern home
- "Speaking of me and Franklin": women travellers in the arctic
- Travels with the "more realistic" sex in the 1920's and 1930's
- "Standing in the gap": anglican women and the northern mission
- "Faith inspires, distinguishes, and explains it": the grey nuns' mission in the north
- White women have strange ways: connections and distinctions between cultures
- "A certain amount of unpleasantness": one woman's encounter with the Holy Trinity of the north
- Isbn
- 9780773569294
- Label
- Alone in silence : European women in the Canadian North before 1940
- Title
- Alone in silence
- Title remainder
- European women in the Canadian North before 1940
- Statement of responsibility
- Barbara E. Kelcey
- Subject
-
- Blanches -- Canada (Nord) -- Histoire
- Canada (Nord) -- Conditions sociales
- Canada, Northern -- Social conditions
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Electronic bookss
- Europeanen
- Europeans
- Europeans -- Canada, Northern -- History
- Europäerin
- Européens -- Canada (Nord) -- Histoire
- Geschichte 1900-1940
- HISTORY -- Canada -- General
- History
- Kanada -- Nord
- Northern Canada
- Northwest Territories
- Northwest Territories -- History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology | Rural
- Social conditions
- Vrouwen
- Women, White
- Women, White -- Canada, Northern -- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book details the struggles of the over 500 European women who travelled or lived in Canada's Northwest Territories before 1940 to set up a home in the harsh environment. The geography also forced them to adjust they way they worked. For instance, letters and reports of the Grey Nuns who worked alongside the Oblate Fathers in the Mackenzie indicate the hardships imposed by their situation but also show how driven they were by their missionary purpose
- Cataloging source
- NLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1949-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kelcey, Barbara E.
- Dewey number
- 971.9/03
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- portraits
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- HQ1459.N37
- LC item number
- K453 2001eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- McGill-Queen's native and northern series
- Series volume
- 27
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Women, White
- Europeans
- Canada, Northern
- Northwest Territories
- HISTORY
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Europeans
- Social conditions
- Women, White
- Northern Canada
- Northwest Territories
- Vrouwen
- Europeanen
- Europäerin
- Kanada
- Geschichte 1900-1940
- Blanches
- Européens
- Canada (Nord)
- Label
- Alone in silence : European women in the Canadian North before 1940, Barbara E. Kelcey
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A long while between dog teams: climate, communications, and isolation -- Meatless, wheatless, and sweetless days: the domestic arrangements of a northern home -- "Speaking of me and Franklin": women travellers in the arctic -- Travels with the "more realistic" sex in the 1920's and 1930's -- "Standing in the gap": anglican women and the northern mission -- "Faith inspires, distinguishes, and explains it": the grey nuns' mission in the north -- White women have strange ways: connections and distinctions between cultures -- "A certain amount of unpleasantness": one woman's encounter with the Holy Trinity of the north
- Control code
- 244764386
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 227 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780773569294
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map, portraits.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt6pk69
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)244764386
- Label
- Alone in silence : European women in the Canadian North before 1940, Barbara E. Kelcey
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A long while between dog teams: climate, communications, and isolation -- Meatless, wheatless, and sweetless days: the domestic arrangements of a northern home -- "Speaking of me and Franklin": women travellers in the arctic -- Travels with the "more realistic" sex in the 1920's and 1930's -- "Standing in the gap": anglican women and the northern mission -- "Faith inspires, distinguishes, and explains it": the grey nuns' mission in the north -- White women have strange ways: connections and distinctions between cultures -- "A certain amount of unpleasantness": one woman's encounter with the Holy Trinity of the north
- Control code
- 244764386
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 227 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780773569294
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map, portraits.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt6pk69
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)244764386
Subject
- Blanches -- Canada (Nord) -- Histoire
- Canada (Nord) -- Conditions sociales
- Canada, Northern -- Social conditions
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Electronic bookss
- Europeanen
- Europeans
- Europeans -- Canada, Northern -- History
- Europäerin
- Européens -- Canada (Nord) -- Histoire
- Geschichte 1900-1940
- HISTORY -- Canada -- General
- History
- Kanada -- Nord
- Northern Canada
- Northwest Territories
- Northwest Territories -- History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology | Rural
- Social conditions
- Vrouwen
- Women, White
- Women, White -- Canada, Northern -- History
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