Métis pioneers : Marie Rose Delorme Smith and Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed / Doris Jeanne MacKinnon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacKinnon, Doris Jeanne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smith, Marie Rose, 1861-1960.

Smith, Marie Rose.

Métis women--Alberta--Biography.

Métis women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (586 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, 2018.

Summary:

In Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade-one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudson's Bay Company tradition-who settled in southern Alberta as the Canadian West transitioned to a sedentary agricultural and industrial economy. MacKinnon provides rare insight into their lives, demonstrating the contributions Metis women made to the building of the Prairie West. This is a compelling tale of two women's acts of quiet resistance in the final days of the British Empire.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Note on Terminology

Note on Sources

Note on Names

Introduction

1 Being and Becoming Metis

2 The Ties That Bind

3 Gracious Womanhood

4 With This Economy We Do Wed

5 Trader Delormes Family

6 Queen of the Jughandle

7 Fenced In

8 Many VoicesOne People

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed April 10, 2018).

ISBN:

9781772123630

1772123633

9781772123616

1772123617

OCLC:

1195515926