The flying years
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- ISBN: 9781771120746 (paperback)
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Physical Description:
print
regular print
ix, 335 pages ; 18 cm. - Copyright: ©2015
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General Note: | Originally published: London: Collins, 1935. |
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Subject: | Prairie Provinces -- Fiction Canada -- History -- 1867- -- Fiction Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction Scotland -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
Topic Heading: | Aboriginal. First Nations. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Nelson Public Library | F NIV (Text) | 3514830029164 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
McLeese Lake Branch | NIV (Text) | 33923005972827 | General Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
Originally published in 1935, Frederick Niven's The Flying Years tells the history of Western Canada from the 1850s to the 1920s as witnessed by Angus Munro, a young Scot forced to emigrate to Canada when his family is evicted from their farm. Working in the isolated setting of Rocky Mountain House, Angus secretly marries a Cree woman, who dies in a measles epidemic while he is on an extended business trip. The discovery, fourteen years later, that his wife had given birth to a boy who was adopted by another Cree family and raised to be ٢all Indian٣ confirms Angus's sympathies toward Aboriginal peoples, and he eventually becomes the Indian Agent on the reserve where his secret son lives. Angus's ongoing negotiation of both the literal and symbolic roles of ٢White Father٣ takes place within the context of questions about race and nation, assimilation and difference, and the future of the Canadian West. Against a background of resource exploitation and western development, the novel queries the place of Aboriginal peoples in this new nation and suggests that progress brings with it a cost.