History Post-confederation (1867-)
Muddling Through
The Remarkable Story of the Barr Colonists
- Publisher
- Greystone Books Ltd
- Initial publish date
- Mar 1998
- Category
- Post-Confederation (1867-)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550541052
- Publish Date
- Jan 1994
- List Price
- $18.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781926706009
- Publish Date
- Mar 1998
- List Price
- $11.99
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Description
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When two thousand British bank clerks, butchers, housewives, saleswomen, remittance men and ex-Boer War soldiers followed the charismatic but inept Anglican minister, Isaac Barr, to the Canadian prairies in 1903 their rallying cry was ""Canada for the British.""
Despite the Canadian governmentÌs expectations and BarrÌs assurances, however, very few of the colonists knew anything about farming. As the granddaughter of Barr colonists, Lynne Bowen grew up on stories of what it was like to be young and green in the huge, raw Canadian west. These are those stories complemented by the diaries memoirs and letters left by the Barr colonists to tell their remarkable story.
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About the author
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Lynne Bowen is the author of five books of Western Canadian history: Robert Dunsmuir, Those Lake People, Muddling Through, Three Dollar Dreams and Boss Whistle. She has won the Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for writing British Columbia history, the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the Canadian Historical Association's Regional Certificate of Merit. Bowen was the Rogers Communications Co-Chair of Creative Non-Fiction Writing at UBC from 1992 to 2006. She lives in Nanaimo, BC.
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