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Marjorie's Canadian Winter -- A Story of the Northern Lights
Content Provider | Faded Page |
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Author | Agnes Maule Machar |
Description | In the two decades following Confederation, Quebec nationalism had become inward-looking and defensive, struggling to maintain French and Catholic rights in a separate school system as a way of resisting Anglophone and Protestant dominance. The Northwest Rebellion of 1885 (which Machar, like many of her contemporaries, understood primarily as a conflict between French Catholics and English Protestants) and the Manitoba Schools’ Question, when Manitoba moved to abolish French as an official language, exacerbated tensions between English and French, fundamentally splitting the country along racial lines. The Indian and Métis roles in the Northwest Rebellion seemed to reveal Native peoples not as heroic allies but as desperate peoples driven to violence and requiring firm, gentle guidance. The relationship between all these founding peoples becomes the focus of Marjorie’s Canadian Winter. From “Abundantly Worthy of its Past”: Agnes Maule Machar and Early Canadian Historical Fiction |
Page Count | 208 |
File Size | 2343779 |
Language | English |
Publisher | D. Lothrop Company |
Publisher Date | 1893-01-01 |
Access Restriction | Open |
Subject Keyword | adventure Canadiana fiction |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Book |