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Ordinary heroes : the journal of a French pioneer in Alberta / by Marcel Durieux ; translated and edited by Roger Motut and Maurice Legris ; with an introd. by L. G. Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Durieux, Marcel, 1889-1976.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Durieux, Marcel, 1889-1976--Diaries.
- Durieux, Marcel.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Alberta.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Pioneers--Alberta--Diaries.
- Pioneers.
- French--Alberta--Diaries.
- French.
- Red Deer River Valley (Alta. and Sask.)--Biography.
- Red Deer River Valley (Alta. and Sask.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (134 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 1980.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The journal of Marcel Durieux records the joys of harvesting vegetables after a winter of rice and beans, of spiritual awareness and of strong ties among the people, as well as the suffering that came from hardship, pain, loss and loneliness in pioneering the West.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- I: Ultimate act: the departure of the immigrants
- II: Arrival on the Prairies
- III: The problems begin
- IV: Home-coming on the homestead
- V: The cruelty of the first winter
- VI: Mother's arrival and the first mass
- VII: Prairie fires and the first death
- VIII: The parents pass on
- IX: The difficulties of reaping
- X: The first train in Big Valley
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 1-4593-0391-1
- 1-4175-9182-X
- OCLC:
- 647755262
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