Review of From the Prairies With Hope and My Dear Maggie: Letters from a Western Manitoba Pioneer

Authors

Becky Faber, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date of this Version

1994

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 14:1 (Winter 1994). Copyright © 1994 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

The frontier of Canada became the new home for many Europeans who believed that they could improve their lives by leaving their homelands. Two such moves to the prairies of Manitoba are chronicled in Aberson's and Wallace's books, both collections of personal reflections on their lives on Manitoba farms.