Biography & Autobiography General
Red Travellers
Jeanne Corbin & Her Comrades
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2006
- Category
- General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773560192
- Publish Date
- Nov 2006
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773531253
- Publish Date
- Nov 2006
- List Price
- $50.00
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Description
Corbin's "red itinerary" began when she joined the Young Communist League in Edmonton. She later held party posts across the country through her involvement with The Worker in Toronto, a French communist paper in Montreal, the Workers' Cooperative in Timmins, and a lumbermen's strike in Abitibi - where she was jailed for taking part in a protest. She died of tuberculosis in London, Ontario, in 1944.
About the author
Andrée Lévesque is an award-winning historian specializing in the history of Quebec in the 20th century, the history of the left, and the history of women. She is the author of Red Travellers: Jeanne Corbin and her Comrades and Madeleine Parent: Activist