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Greenbank: In the Country of the Past

Greenbank: In the Country of the Past

Graham, Hugh

Paperback

Canadian History

ISBN10: 0921149999
ISBN13: 9780921149996
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Nov 1 1992
Pages: 326
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Winner: Canadian Historical Association - Best Regional History, 1988


Using the lives of four families as its focus, Greenbank broadens to explore and capture with extraordinary vividness life as a whole in early



Canada. The remarkable will of the early pioneers, and the dissipation of that will in succeeding generations; the creation of an educational system from scratch; the hardships of everyday life, and the simple recreations that helped to dispel them; the coming of the railways; the subcurrent of alcohol's influence on the culture, and the fight against it; the harsh ethic of evangelism, which gave shape to so many of the attitudes of the people -- all these are recurrent themes in Greenbank. Within this broad canvas the lives of individual people are the brush strokes that bring life as a whole into vivid and poignant focus.


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