The Flying Years - Niven, Frederick
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Tells the history of Western Canada from the 1850s to the 1920s as witnessed by a young Scottish immigrant, who secretly marries a Cree woman. Against a background of resource exploitation and western development, this 1935 novel queries the place of Aboriginal peoples in this new nation and suggests that progress brings with it a cost.

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Tells the history of Western Canada from the 1850s to the 1920s as witnessed by a young Scottish immigrant, who secretly marries a Cree woman. Against a background of resource exploitation and western development, this 1935 novel queries the place of Aboriginal peoples in this new nation and suggests that progress brings with it a cost.
Autorenporträt
Born in Chile and raised in Scotland, Frederick Niven (1878-1944) travelled in British Columbia as a young adult and continued writing about Western Canada upon his return to Scotland. In 1920 he returned to Canada, settling permanently outside Nelson, BC. He was the author of over twenty novels.