In 1891, Alice Barrett moved from Port Dover, Ontario, to the Okanagan Valley. This volume contains the diaries she kept for the next decade, a period of profound transformation. The diaries offer insights into work, health, religion, race and gender relations and women's lives.
In 1891, Alice Barrett moved from Port Dover, Ontario, to the Okanagan Valley. This volume contains the diaries she kept for the next decade, a period of profound transformation. The diaries offer insights into work, health, religion, race and gender relations and women's lives.
Jo Fraser Jones (editor) lives in Vernon, B.C. She is a contributor to Framing our Past: Canadian Women's History in the Twentieth Century and has published articles on regional history.
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Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Quite away from all my people : Arriving in the Spallumcheen Valley The real, the useful, the necessary these occupy one here : Life in the Spallumcheen Valley A very cosy, happy home : At Home in Vernon How many people I have got to know! : Vernon Friends and Acquaintances Oh! I do hope I ll be able to do something useful and good : A One-Woman Social Welfare Service A great many people have ailments here : Health and Social Issues in the 1890s How I love them all : Some Members of the Barrett Family Oh! I wish I could hear someone who would stir me up : Religion in the West A man of Mr. Parke s ability : A Husband of Unusual Accomplishment I have been as busy as I could be : Life at the BX Ranch and Encounters with the Chinese There is much of the untamed animal nature in me : Confessions to the Diaries The women work much harder than the men : Attitudes towards Other Races Hob-nobbing with a Countess : Early Feminism in Western Canada I think if I were a man I d want to go in for [politics] : Political Life at the End of the 1800s People really seem to be getting sanguine over the mining prospects around here : Exploration and Prospecting in the Okanagan It really is shameful the way I neglect my poor old diary lately : The End of the Journals I wonder when I m a grey haired old woman if I will enjoy reading these papers! : The Final Years Notes Appendix: Chronology of the diaries Bibliography Index
Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Quite away from all my people : Arriving in the Spallumcheen Valley The real, the useful, the necessary these occupy one here : Life in the Spallumcheen Valley A very cosy, happy home : At Home in Vernon How many people I have got to know! : Vernon Friends and Acquaintances Oh! I do hope I ll be able to do something useful and good : A One-Woman Social Welfare Service A great many people have ailments here : Health and Social Issues in the 1890s How I love them all : Some Members of the Barrett Family Oh! I wish I could hear someone who would stir me up : Religion in the West A man of Mr. Parke s ability : A Husband of Unusual Accomplishment I have been as busy as I could be : Life at the BX Ranch and Encounters with the Chinese There is much of the untamed animal nature in me : Confessions to the Diaries The women work much harder than the men : Attitudes towards Other Races Hob-nobbing with a Countess : Early Feminism in Western Canada I think if I were a man I d want to go in for [politics] : Political Life at the End of the 1800s People really seem to be getting sanguine over the mining prospects around here : Exploration and Prospecting in the Okanagan It really is shameful the way I neglect my poor old diary lately : The End of the Journals I wonder when I m a grey haired old woman if I will enjoy reading these papers! : The Final Years Notes Appendix: Chronology of the diaries Bibliography Index
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