Author: HUME, STEPHEN
Title: Raincoast Chronicles 20 Lilies and Fireweed: Frontier Women of British Columbia
Description: Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2004. Paperback. ISBN: 1550173138. Lightly creased top back corner of card cover, otherwise as new. ; A bright, solid book ; Trade PB; 80 pages; "Lilies and Fireweed is packed with unforgettable stories of women surviving in the unforgiving, sometimes hostile environment of pioneer and aboriginal British Columbia. Based on award-winning journalist Stephen Hume's popular series "Frontier Women of BC" that appeared in the Vancouver Sun in 2002, this collection of essays contains stories, photographs and other materials that have never before been published. From hospitals to dance halls, and from the classroom to the cannery floor, this insightful pictorial history examines indigenous and immigrant women's positions in the workplace, home and wilderness. ". Very Good+ .

Keywords: 1550173138 Pioneer Women British Columbia immigrants Fiction::Canadian


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