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The Flying Years

The Flying Years

Niven, Frederick
Calder, Alison

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Series: Early Canadian Literature

General Fiction

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ISBN10: 1771120746
ISBN13: 9781771120746
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
Published: Jul 2 2015
Pages: 344
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 6.90
Language: English

Originally 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.

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