04156nam 2200781 450 991045581750332120200520144314.01-282-03724-297866120372451-4426-7316-810.3138/9781442673168(CKB)2420000000003952(OCoLC)666917981(CaPaEBR)ebrary10219187(SSID)ssj0000292163(PQKBManifestationID)11247603(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000292163(PQKBWorkID)10255054(PQKB)11716347(CaBNvSL)thg00600612 (MiAaPQ)EBC3255279(MiAaPQ)EBC4671363(DE-B1597)464337(OCoLC)946712682(DE-B1597)9781442673168(Au-PeEL)EBL4671363(CaPaEBR)ebr11257078(OCoLC)958571498(EXLCZ)99242000000000395220160923h19991999 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCompanions of the Peace diaries and letters of Monica Storrs, 1931-1939 /edited by Vera K. Fast ; with an introduction by Vera K. Fast and Mary KinnearToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,1999.©19991 online resource (263 p.) Includes index.0-8020-8254-8 0-8020-4474-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Diaries and Letters, 1931-1939-Part I -- Diaries and Letters, 1931-1939-Part II -- Postscript -- Notes -- Photo Credits -- Index In 1929 a cultured English gentlewoman arrived in the barely settled wilderness of northern British Columbia as an Anglican missionary, intending to assuage her sense of duty by staying for one year. She stayed for twenty-one. The years covered by Monica Storrs' journal entries (1931 - 1939) were at times unbearably hard, the depression compounding what was already a demanding existence. She and the group of women she lived with, the Companions of the Peace, were sent out as 'missionaries of empire.' As the journals progress, Storrs' droll British wit persists but her imperialistic attitude softens as her work draws her into the lives around her. Expanding on the initial mandate to start Sunday schools, foster contact with women, and perform church services, she became involved in assembling libraries, lending money for seed grain, financing medical assistance, and organizing theatrical performances and poetry contests. After her death even the non-British inhabitants of the Peace River district described her as 'one of us.'Helped by the judicious editing of historian Vera Fast, these penetrating journal entries make for an unusually absorbing read, with rare details for scholars of British imperialism, Canadian pioneering, and women's life writing, but with enough story and humour to engage any reader.Frontier and pioneer lifePeace River Valley (B.C. and Alta.)PioneersPeace River Valley (B.C. and Alta.)DiariesPioneersPeace River Valley (B.C. and Alta.)CorrespondenceWomen pioneersPeace River Valley (B.C. and Alta.)DiariesWomen pioneersPeace River Valley (B.C. and Alta.)CorrespondencePeace River Valley (B.C. and Alta.)Social life and customsElectronic books.Frontier and pioneer lifePioneersPioneersWomen pioneersWomen pioneers971.18703092Storrs Monica, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1030554Fast Vera K.1929-Kinnear MaryMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455817503321Companions of the Peace2447491UNINA