Good intentions gone awry : Emma Crosby and the Methodist mission on the Northwest Coast / Jan Hare and Jean Barman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hare, Jan, 1965-

Contributor:

Barman, Jean, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crosby, Emma, 1849-1926--Correspondence.

Crosby, Emma.

Crosby, Thomas, 1840-1914.

Crosby, Thomas.

Methodist Church--Missions--British Columbia--Port Simpson--History.

Methodist Church.

Tsimshian Indians--Missions--British Columbia--History.

Tsimshian Indians.

Missionaries' spouses--Canada--Biography.

Missionaries' spouses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 307 pages, [8] pages of plates) : illustrations, map, portraits.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Unlike most missionary scholarship that focuses on male missionaries, Good Intentions Gone Awry chronicles the experiences of a missionary wife. It presents the letters of Emma Crosby, wife of the well-known Methodist missionary Thomas Crosby, who came to Fort Simpson, near present-day Prince Rupert, in 1874 to set up a mission among the Tsimshian people. Emma Crosby's letters to family and friends in Ontario shed light on a critical era and bear witness to the contribution of missionary wives. They mirror the hardships and isolation she faced as well as her assumptions about the supremacy of Euro-Canadian society and of Christianity. They speak to her "good intentions" and to the factors that caused them to "go awry." The authors critically represent Emma's sincere convictions towards mission work and the running of the Crosby Girls' Home (later to become a residential school), while at the same time exposing them as a product of the times in which she lived. They also examine the roles of Native and mixed-race intermediaries who made possible the feats attributed to Thomas Crosby as a heroic male missionary persevering on his own against tremendous odds. This book is a valuable contribution to Canadian history and will appeal to readers in women's, Canadian, Native, and religious studies, as well as those interested in missiology in the Canadian West.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Crosby Family Chronology

Fort Simpson's Early Women Teachers and Missionaries

Introduction

Courtship and Marriage

Arrival at Fort Simpson

Motherhood

Emma Alone

A Comfortable Routine

Adversity

Changing Times

Good Intentions Gone Awry

Repatriation

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-294) and index.

ISBN:

0-7748-5517-7

1-282-74113-6

9786612741135

OCLC:

923445024

Publisher Number:

9780774812702