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Good intentions gone awry : Emma Crosby and the Methodist mission on the Northwest Coast Cover Image Book Book

Good intentions gone awry : Emma Crosby and the Methodist mission on the Northwest Coast

Hare, Jan 1965- (author.). Barman, Jean, 1939- (author.).

Summary: "Presents the letters of Emma Crosby ... who came to Fort Simpson ... in 1874. ... The authors critically represent Emma's sincere convictions towards mission work and the running of the Crosby Girls' Home (later to become a residential school), while at the same time exposing them as a product of the times in which she lived." --back cover.

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  • ISBN: 0774812710
  • ISBN: 0774812702
  • ISBN: 9780774812719
  • ISBN: 9780774812702
  • Physical Description: xxiii, 307 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm.
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  • Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia : UBC Press, 2006.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-294) and index.

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Subject: Methodist Church -- Missions -- British Columbia -- Port Simpson -- History
Tsimshian Indians -- Missions -- British Columbia -- History
Missionaries' spouses -- Canada -- Biography
Crosby, Thomas -- 1840-1914
Crosby, Emma -- 1849-1926 -- Correspondence
Topic Heading: First Nations Canada.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.

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Summary: "Presents the letters of Emma Crosby ... who came to Fort Simpson ... in 1874. ... The authors critically represent Emma's sincere convictions towards mission work and the running of the Crosby Girls' Home (later to become a residential school), while at the same time exposing them as a product of the times in which she lived." --back cover.
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