LEADER 04043oam 22006614a 450 001 9910154961403321 005 20201016235101.0 010 $a1-77112-075-4 024 7 $a10.51644/9781771120753 035 $a(CKB)3710000000454601 035 $a(EBL)3432565 035 $a(OCoLC)907565860 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001562078 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16204934 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001562078 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14833125 035 $a(PQKB)10671041 035 $a(CEL)448921 035 $a(OCoLC)921534290 035 $a(CaBNVSL)thg00931521 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3432565 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46176 035 $a(PPN)250255650 035 $a(DE-B1597)667871 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781771120753 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000454601 100 $a20150409d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Flying Years$b[electronic resource] /$fFrederick Niven ; afterword by Alison Calder 210 1$aWaterloo, Ontario :$cWilfrid Laurier University Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (250 p.) 225 1 $aEarly Canadian literature series 311 $a1-77112-076-2 311 $a1-77112-074-6 327 $aCover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; The Flying Years; Contents; I: Eviction; II: Red River; III: To the Mountains; IV: Indian Woman; V: Race; VI: Kildonan Bell; VII: In the Haar; VIII: Ettrick Brothers; IX: At Lasswade; X: Impulse; XI: Travellers' Tales; XII: Escape; XIII: "The Great Sickness"; XIV: Blue Jays; XV: Progress; XVI: S.D.; XVII: Blackfoot Crossing; XVIII: A Collet-Ring; XIX: Prairie-Schooner; XX: Fiona; XXI: Voila? les B?ufs!; XXII: Mr. Hodges Advises; XXIII: Photograph; XXIV: Birth; XXV: Changes; XXVI: Descendants; XXVII: Business; XXVIII: Two Sons; XXIX: Heather 327 $aXXX: Buffalo BillXXXI: "A Married Man's Town"; XXXII: Sacrifice; XXXIII: Blue Gentians; XXXIV: Angus and Sam; XXXV: Voice of the Prairie; Afterword 330 $aOriginally published in 1935, Frederick Niven?s The Flying Years tells the history of Western Canada from the 1850s to the 1920s as witnessed by Angus Munro, a young Scot forced to emigrate to Canada when his family is evicted from their farm. Working in the isolated setting of Rocky Mountain House, Angus secretly marries a Cree woman, who dies in a measles epidemic while he is on an extended business trip. The discovery, fourteen years later, that his wife had given birth to a boy who was adopted by another Cree family and raised to be ?all Indian? confirms Angus?s sympathies toward Aboriginal peoples, and he eventually becomes the Indian Agent on the reserve where his secret son lives. Angus?s ongoing negotiation of both the literal and symbolic roles of ?White Father? takes place within the context of questions about race and nation, assimilation and difference, and the future of the Canadian West. Against a background of resource exploitation and western development, the novel queries the place of Aboriginal peoples in this new nation and suggests that progress brings with it a cost. Alison Calder?s afterword examines the novel?s depiction of the paternalistic relationship between the Canadian government and Aboriginal peoples in Western Canada, and situates the novel in terms of contemporary discussions about race and biology. 410 0$aEarly Canadian literature series. 606 $aCanadian fiction$x20th century 606 $aCanadian fiction$y20th century 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCanadian fiction$x20th century. 615 0$aCanadian fiction 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / General. 676 $aC813/.52 700 $aNiven$b Frederick$f1878-1944,$0860495 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154961403321 996 $aThe Flying Years$91919832 997 $aUNINA