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Chargement... Suitable for the Wilds: Letters from Northern Alberta, 1929-1931par Mary Percy Jackson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. In 1929, Dr. Mary Percy, a resident of the U.K. was recruited as a physician by Alberta’s Ministry of Health to practice at Battle River Prairie in north western Alberta. Immigrants were pouring into the area and the death rate of pregnant women became a hot topic. Mary came from a wealthy family, so had to learn to cook, clean, and survive in an isolated area. She was provided with a house/clinic, medical supplies, and a horse. Being the independent, resourceful woman she was, she proceeded to thrive and lives on in the memories of Albertans. Her letters home, which her father had retyped for a select audience of relatives, luckily survived, and form the base for this very readable book. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Dr. Mary Percy, twenty-five years old and from a comfortable Birmingham family, left home in 1929 to take up a medical posting in the Peace River area of northern Alberta. Her letters home, collected here, vividly describe her adventurous life on one of Canada's last frontiers. Her district covered 900 square kilometres of wooded, boggy land, which she travelled on horseback, by dogsled, and sometimes by automobile." "Dr. Percy faced many issues in caring for the Metis and Native people, as well as for increasing numbers of immigrant families. Her greatest medical challenges, though, were the result of poverty and isolation - and she often railed against the government for what she saw as irresponsible settlement policies and lack of attention to her community." "Despite the strenuousness of her responsibilities as doctor, dentist, public health officer, and coroner, Dr. Percy enjoyed the personal and professional challenges presented by wilderness life, and her enthusiasm for this great adventure, which permeates her letters, is infectious. Indeed, by the end of 1930 she complained that the area was becoming too civilized! The letters conclude in January 1931, with her marriage to farmer-fur trader Frank Jackson and her subsequent move farther north, to Keg River, where she lives today." "Janice Dickin McGinnis's introduction provides a detailed discussion of Mary Percy Jackson's life and an assessment of the value of her letters in terms of the historiography of women, of medicine, and of the North."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)971.23102History and Geography North America Canada Prairie Provinces, Western Canada AlbertaClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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