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The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith: Portrait of a Metis Woman, 1861-1960 (CPS)
Doris Jeanne Mackinnon
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Description for The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith: Portrait of a Metis Woman, 1861-1960 (CPS)
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 18. BIC Classification: BG; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
This book relates the history and self-identifying process of a Metis woman who lived on the western plains of Canada during the transitional period from fur trade to sedentary agricultural economy. Marie Rose Delorme Smith was a woman of French-Metis ancestry who was born during the fur trade era and who spent her adult years as a pioneer rancher in the Pincher Creek district of southern Alberta. Sold by her mother at the age of sixteen to a robe and whiskey trader several years older than her, Marie Rose went on to raise seventeen children, establish a boarding house, take ... Read more
This book relates the history and self-identifying process of a Metis woman who lived on the western plains of Canada during the transitional period from fur trade to sedentary agricultural economy. Marie Rose Delorme Smith was a woman of French-Metis ancestry who was born during the fur trade era and who spent her adult years as a pioneer rancher in the Pincher Creek district of southern Alberta. Sold by her mother at the age of sixteen to a robe and whiskey trader several years older than her, Marie Rose went on to raise seventeen children, establish a boarding house, take ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Regina, Canada
ISBN
9780889772366
SKU
V9780889772366
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About Doris Jeanne Mackinnon
Doris Jeanne MacKinnon was born on a farm in northeastern Alberta and attended school in the historic town of St-Paul-des-Métis. She has a PhD in Indigenous and post-Confederation Canadian history. An independent researcher and postsecondary instructor, she lives in Red Deer, Alberta.
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