LEADER 03839nam 2200505 450 001 9910777099503321 005 20221027222027.0 010 $a1-4426-8007-5 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442680074 035 $a(CKB)9870000000002331 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671972 035 $a(NjHacI)999870000000002331 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/pgs9qw 035 $a(DE-B1597)464883 035 $a(OCoLC)1013946452 035 $a(OCoLC)944177594 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442680074 035 $a(EXLCZ)999870000000002331 100 $a20220929d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSojourning Sisters $eThe Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen /$fJean Barman 210 1$aToronto :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 304 pages). $cillustrations 225 1 $aLife and letters series (University of Toronto Press) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8020-4877-3 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tChapter One. Sojourning Sisters -- $tChapter Two. Pictou County Origins -- $tChapter Three. Nova Scotia to British Columbia -- $tChapter Four. Sisterhood's Bonds -- $tChapter Five. Taking a Chance on Love -- $tChapter Six. Domesticating Everyday Life -- $tChapter Seven. Daughterhood's Obligations -- $tChapter Eight. Enduring Bonds of Sisterhood -- $tChapter Nine. Annie on the Frontier -- $tChapter Ten. Jessie in Charge -- $tChapter Eleven. Sisters Full Circle -- $tChapter Twelve. Reflections -- $tChronology -- $tNotes -- $tIllustration Credits -- $tIndex 330 $aShortly after the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1886, two young sisters from Pictou County, Nova Scotia, took the train west to British Columbia. Jessie and Annie McQueen each intended to teach there for three years and then return home. In fact they remained sojourners between British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and Ontario for much of their lives.Drawing on family correspondence and supported by extensive engagement with current scholarship, Jean Barman tells the sisters' stories and, in doing so, offers a new interpretation of early settlement across Canada. As did many other women of these years, Jessie and Annie McQueen remained bound by daughterhood's obligations and sisterhood's bonds even as they got involved in their new communities. Barman takes seriously women as sojourners and uses Jessie and Annie McQueen's letters home to evoke the boundless energy and enthusiasm shown by the thousands of women who helped to form Canada's frontiers. Like other sojourners, the McQueen sisters did not come to their new home empty handed. They brought with them a distinctly Scottish Presbyterian way of life, consistent with ideas of the nation being promoted in the public realm by fellow Nova Scotians such as George Monro Grant. Confident in their assumptions, including the central role of religion in the formation of a grand national vision, women like these sisters were critical in uniting Canada from coast to coast. Broad in its critical approach and nuanced in its interpretations, Sojourning Sisters is a major contribution to the field of life writing and to the political, gender, and social history of Canada. 410 0$aLife and letters series (University of Toronto Press) 531 $aSOJOURNING SISTERS : THE LIVES AND LETTERS OF JESSIE AND ANNIE MCQUEEN 606 $aManners and customs 615 0$aManners and customs. 676 $a971.1 700 $aBarman$b Jean$f1939-$01503014 702 $aJean Barman 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777099503321 996 $aSojourning Sisters$93819214 997 $aUNINA