A Prairie Memoir; The Life and Times of James Clinkskill 1853-1936

Clinkskill, James; Hanson, H.D. [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0889771502 / ISBN 13: 9780889771505

Published by Canadian Plains Research Center/University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan

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[0-88977-150-2] 2003. (Mass market paperback) As new. xxii, 170pp. 8vo. As new. More than a personal memoir, this tells also of great transformation in Canadian, and Prairie History. The challenges associated with life in the Northwest are included in these pages; the disappearance of the buffalo; the Frog Lake Massacre and North-West Resistance, the arrival of the railroad, the birth of Saskatchewan, as well as the struggles that came with the storms and cold of prairie winters. Black and white photographs.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Prairie Memoir; The Life and Times of James Clinkskill 1853-1936
• Publisher: Canadian Plains Research Center/University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
• ISBN 10: 0889771502
• ISBN 13: 9780889771505
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadiana

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Synopsis

James Clinkskill, a young Scottish immigrant to Canada, enjoyed great success in his new home, both as an entrepreneur and businessman, and as a politician and community leader. His life was undeniably one of accomplishment: he owned and managed a number of successful businesses; he was a member of the Territorial Legislative Assembly for over a decade; he was mayor of Saskatoon during its transition from town to city; and he served on the Board of Governors of the University of Saskatchewan and on its Senate.

Clinkskill's memoir is more, however, than a record of personal accomplishments, for he lived during a period of great transformation in the North-West. The losses and gains of those times are recorded here, too: the disappearance of the buffalo; the trials and tribulations of travel in the North-West before and after the coming of the railway; the struggles with the storms and bitter cold of the prairie winters; the North-West Resistance; the transition from colonial status to responsible government, culminating in the birth of the province of Saskatchewan in 1905.

With the passing of the last of the pioneer generation, memoirs such as Clinskill's become ever more important, for they alone now remain to evoke memories of that bygone era.