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Mennonites: Early Voices — Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639–1914
Mennonites: Early Voices — Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639–1914
Mennonites: Early Voices — Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639–1914
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This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman’s wife in Labrador. A Loyalist wife and mother describes the first hard weather in New Brunswick, a seasick nun tells of a dangerous voyage out from France, a famous children’s writer writes home about the fun of canoeing, and a German general’s wife describes habitant customs. All demonstrate how women’s experiences not only shared, but helped shape this new country.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherDundurn
Release dateOct 18, 2015
ISBN9781459734784
Mennonites: Early Voices — Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639–1914
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Mary Alice Downie

Mary Alice Downie has written and edited twenty-eight books for children and adults. Her many books include And Some Brought Flowers with Mary Hamilton, and The Well-Filled Cupboard with Barbara Robertson. She lives in Kingston, Ontario.

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    Mennonites - Mary Alice Downie

    Early Voices

    EDITED BY MARY ALICE DOWNIE

    AND BARBARA ROBERTSON

    WITH ELIZABETH JANE ERRINGTON

    Early Voices

    Portraits of Canada by

    Women Writers, 1639–1914

    Copyright © Mary Alice Downie and Elizabeth Jane Errington, 2010

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise (except for brief passages for purposes of review) without the prior permission of Dundurn Press. Permission to photocopy should be requested from Access Copyright.

    Project Editor: Jane Gibson

    Copy Editor: Matt Baker

    Design: Jennifer Scott

    Printer: Transcontinental

    Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

    Early voices : portraits of Canada by women writers, 1639-1914 / by Mary Alice Downie and Barbara Robertson ; with Elizabeth Jane Errington.

    Includes bibliographical references.

    Also available in electronic format.

    ISBN 9781554888320

    1. Women pioneers--Canada--History. 2. Women--Canada--History. 3. Women pioneers--Canada--Biography. 4. Canadian prose literature--Women authors. I. Downie, Mary Alice, 1934- II. Robertson, Barbara, 1931- III. Errington, Elizabeth Jane, 1951-

    1 2 3 4 5 14 13 12 11 10

    We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and Livres Canada Books, and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit program, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

    Care has been taken to trace the ownership of copyright material used in this book. The author and the publisher welcome any information enabling them to rectify any references or credits in subsequent editions.

    J. Kirk Howard, President

    Front cover image: Winter Scene by Frances Anne Hopkins. Library and Archives Canada, C-013581. Back cover image: W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library, Queen’s University.

    Images on pages 11, 31, 67, 111, 155, 255.

    Courtesy W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library, Queen’s University.

    Printed and bound in Canada.

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    For Mary: the tradition continues.

    Contents

    Acknowledgements

    Our Assorted Ancestors

    The Diversity of Voices

    15. Lady Dufferin (1843–1936)

    Mennonites

    Bibliography

    About the Editors

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