The Prose of life : sketches from Victorian Canada /

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Other Authors: Gerson, Carole, 1948-, Mezei, Kathy, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Downsview, Ont. : ECW Press, c1981.
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245 0 4 |a The Prose of life :  |b sketches from Victorian Canada /  |c edited and introduced by Carole Gerson and Kathy Mezei. 
260 0 |a Downsview, Ont. :  |b ECW Press,  |c c1981. 
300 |a 261 p. :  |b ill., port. ;  |c 23 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a Introduction / Carole Gerson and Kathy Mezei -- Streams and rural places in Nova Scotia -- Bush scenery / H.B. MacDonald -- A visit to the camp of the Chippewa Indians ; Female trials of the bush ; Early provincial settlers: an Indian story / Catharine Parr Traill -- From Law and Lawyers in Canada West / P.T.S. Atty, Esq. -- In the bush: a settler's own tale / W.W.S. -- My first cariboo / Hubert Humber -- The proctors: a sketch of Canadian university life / Allan A'Dale -- The castaways of Gull Island / H. Harvey -- A visit to the Mineral Spring, East Bay, Cape Breton / W.D. Dimock -- Ice-cutting on Lake Huron / Morgan Coldwell -- Canadian life in the country fifty years ago / Canniff Haight -- In the North-West with "Sitting Bull" / E.D. Clark -- Fishing in Rice Lake / Archibald Lampman -- [Buying insurance], woman's world ; A visit to a Carmelite convent / Sara Jeannette Duncan -- The last of the hostelries / Archibald MacMechan -- Indian medicine men and their magic / Pauline Johnson -- A horrible night: an historical sketch of the North-West rebellion / George B. Brooks -- A trip after bark in northern Ontario / Thomas C. Birnie -- 'General' Bain, of Sandy Beach / William Wilfred Campbell -- Buried under an avalanche: an experience in British Columbia / John C. Werner -- The Coureur-de-Bois: a sketch / William McLennan. 
650 0 |a Canadian prose literature  |y 19th century. 
651 0 |a Canada  |x Literary collections. 
651 0 |a Canada  |x Social life and customs. 
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700 1 |a Gerson, Carole,  |d 1948- 
700 1 |a Mezei, Kathy,  |d 1947- 
776 0 8 |i Online version:  |t Prose of life.  |d Downsview, Ont. : ECW Press, ©1981  |w (OCoLC)564624904 
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