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Author: Clarke Wallace Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1583485864 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 250
Book Description
Tall and bronzed by a western sun and wind, Donald Morrison was no one’s fool and he liked it that way. He was a gun-slinging hero back in the 1880’s who honed his skill as a cowboy riding the Chisholm and Shawnee Trails. But his life changes when he is summoned home to the Eastern Townships of Quebec, just up from Vermont. His family was in danger of losing the precious homestead, and they knew Donald was the one to set it right. In trying to wrest back the farm, Donald is drawn into a series of turns that ultimately lead to a dramatic western-style gunfight in the sleepy town of Megantic. He is forced to shoot first to save his own life, an act of self-defense, which becomes a charge of murder. This is the true story of one young man's fight against greed perpetuated by the moneylenders. Against those in high places who took advantage of immigrants coming to a new land to find peace, but finding only anguish and hardship. WANTED is a remarkable story of courage, of love, greed and betrayal, of fiery passions and a man willing to face life on its own terms.
Author: Clarke Wallace Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1583485864 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 250
Book Description
Tall and bronzed by a western sun and wind, Donald Morrison was no one’s fool and he liked it that way. He was a gun-slinging hero back in the 1880’s who honed his skill as a cowboy riding the Chisholm and Shawnee Trails. But his life changes when he is summoned home to the Eastern Townships of Quebec, just up from Vermont. His family was in danger of losing the precious homestead, and they knew Donald was the one to set it right. In trying to wrest back the farm, Donald is drawn into a series of turns that ultimately lead to a dramatic western-style gunfight in the sleepy town of Megantic. He is forced to shoot first to save his own life, an act of self-defense, which becomes a charge of murder. This is the true story of one young man's fight against greed perpetuated by the moneylenders. Against those in high places who took advantage of immigrants coming to a new land to find peace, but finding only anguish and hardship. WANTED is a remarkable story of courage, of love, greed and betrayal, of fiery passions and a man willing to face life on its own terms.
Author: Anonymous Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 66
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Donald Morrison was famous as a Canadian outlaw, convicted of manslaughter, who became a folk hero. His father, a Scottish immigrant in Canada, was cheated out of his farm by rich landowners who used the old man's illiteracy. When Donald, who was working as a cowboy far from home at the time of the deal, returned home, he got infuriated. Donald hired a lawyer to get a farm back but never succeeded. He then burned a barn and was accused of a felony, so he had to escape from the police. He hid from law enforcement for ten months until he got caught and shot. Since he was shooting in self-defense, he killed one of his persecutors and was additionally charged with manslaughter. While on the run, Morrison earned the sympathy of the Canadian people, who often helped him to hide and supported him. Thus, the outlaw became a folk hero, inspiring numerous authors and filmmakers to reflect on his story.
Author: Margaret Bennett Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773567585 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 392
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Relying heavily upon oral tradition, the book embraces the diverse disciplines of folklore, history, language, geography, literature, sociology, agriculture, botany, and home economics. It covers emigration history, community and domestic lifestyles, religious and social structure (including songs, poems, legends, and folktales), customs and beliefs, and material culture. Discussions are supported throughout by testimonies of many Townshippers, quoted verbatim, enabling the "voice" of the Gael to continue to be heard. Oatmeal and the Catechism will be of great interest to scholars and students of Gaelic studies and folklore in addition to Quebecers and others whose Scottish ancestors settled in Quebec and eastern Canada and helped carve a country out of the wilderness.
Author: J. Little Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773562710 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 391
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The two groups arrived in Winslow Township in the middle of the nineteenth century, when modern state bureaucracy was just developing in Lower Canada (Quebec). Little was therefore able to examine a wealth of material from the departments responsible for crown lands, public works, and education as well as comprehensive data from the registry offices and manuscript census reports. This state-generated material, as well as a rich collection of Catholic and Presbyterian church records and documents from Scotland, provides the basis for a detailed analysis of society, economy, and culture in one isolated pocket of colonization. Little focuses on settlement patterns, population expansion and mobility, family structure and inheritance, farm production and labour, the role played by local merchants and millers, and the cultural significance of religion and education. He documents the differences which can be traced to ethnic origin but emphasizes the many similarities which characterized the adjustment of the two groups. Economic development in this geographical area was severely restricted by thin soil, rugged topography, and a brutally short growing season, coupled with the government's favouritism towards monopolistic lumber companies. Two viable communities did, nevertheless, take root, each drawing heavily on traditional cultural values and a history of economic resourcefulness in order to survive in an era of emerging industrial capitalism.
Author: Catherine Carson Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1326253425 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 274
Book Description
The four Logan brothers, Adam, Bart, Charlie and Dirk along with their good friend Euan Eunson have enjoyed their bachelor life style, but one by one they succumb to the feelings they have developed for the five women in their lives. Which of the bachelors will be the first to enter into matrimony; will Adam admit his feelings for Lorna; will Bart fight his attraction to Joanne; will Charlie ever shut up long enough to declare his feelings for Helen; will Dirk finally have to do the chasing to win Carly and last, but not least, will Euan gain the happiness he desires with Ellie.........'
Author: Tina Loo Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 364
Book Description
This volume contains seventeen articles on law and society in Canada. The topics range from informal law on the frontier to laws affecting marriage, the poor, Native Peoples, and children to the role of police in enforcing the law. Articles discuss formal law as well as more informal mechanisms that structure social relations and affect the types of laws that are formulated and how they are received. Contributors from the field of history, laws and anthropology are included to ensure that a variety of perspectives are represented.
Author: Gabriel Danzig Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004369082 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 686
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Plato and Xenophon are the two students of Socrates whose works have come down to us in their entirety. Their works have been studied by countless scholars over the generations; but rarely have they been brought into direct contact, outside of their use in relation to the Socratic problem. This volume changes that, by offering a collection of articles containing comparative analyses of almost the entire range of Plato's and Xenophon's writings, approaching them from literary, philosophical and historical perspectives.
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