| Description |
1 online resource (388 pages) |
| Series |
Heritage |
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Heritage.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- PART I: HARVEST HOME -- 1 Of agricultural equipment, horses, and hired men -- 2 The custom of deferred payment -- a prairie storm -- 3 A vagabond garden -- 4 Of harvest, wages, the cost of implements and plant -- 5 Threshing -- 6 Wheat sales -- the fall of the leaf -- Le Bret -- 7 Friends and acquaintances in Fort Qu'Appelle -- 8 Winter quarters -- Springbrook school -- a political meeting -- 9 At home by the lake shore -- of Canadian diversion -- 10 Nancy -- the second payment -- the first loss -- PART II: SPRING -- 1 A daughter of the prairie -- the coming of Nancy -- 2 The mirage of spring -- my first chore-boy -- a new horse and a new man -- seeding -- 3 Chore-boys -- 'the beautiful necessity' -- the story of a plough -- 4 Dairy-produce -- fencing -- milking -- gardening -- Victoria Day -- 5 An Irishman's fortune -- stoning the land -- 6 The rains of June -- haying -- harvest -- 7 The harvest of my first seeding -- PART III: WINTER -- 1 Of fuel and fear -- the end of the year -- 2 Preparing seed-grain -- newcomers -- 3 The seeding month -- the coming of Felicity -- 4 The land and the man -- 5 Shadow and scythe beneath the sword -- 6 Summer diversion -- law and labour -- Patrick O'Hara and Si Booth -- 7 The frozen harvest of 1907 -- 8 The day of reckoning -- auf wiedersehen -- PART IV: THE TURN OF THE TIDE -- 1 The seed -- the passing of a prairie fire -- 2 The blade -- the ear -- the full corn -- 3 Sales, mortgage -- 'a larger heaven' |
| Summary |
Wheat and Woman is a fascinating record of a gifted and determined woman's experience in prairie farming and a unique document in Canadian social history |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Binnie-Clark, Georgina, 1871-1947.
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Farmers -- Saskatchewan -- Fort Qu'appelle -- Biography
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Women farmers -- Saskatchewan -- Fort Qu'appelle -- Biography
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Wheat -- Saskatchewan -- Fort Qu'appelle -- History
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Farmers
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Wheat
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Women farmers
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Saskatchewan -- Fort Qu'appelle
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carter, Sarah, 1954-
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| ISBN |
9781442659797 |
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1442659793 |
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