Lilies & fireweed : frontier women of British Columbia /
"Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies and Fireweed explores a subject historians have avoided far too long: the instrumental role aboriginal and pioneer women played in the making of British Columbia." "From hospitals to dance halls, from the classroom to the cannery floor, this pictorial...
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| Language: | English |
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Madeira Park, BC :
Harbour Pub.,
c2004.
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| Series: | Raincoast chronicles ;
20. |
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Table of Contents:
- Pioneering through the ages
- Mothers of the old world
- The accidental tourist
- The first, first lady
- Miners' angels and dance hall queens
- Homesteads and hard women
- The search for Eden
- Women at work
- Elite excess and riff-raff reality
- A rainbow society
- Painters, poets and politicians
- The last of the first
- Postscript
- a woman of fortitude.