Good Intentions Gone Awry Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest Coast

Hare, Jan and Barman, Jean

ISBN 10: 0774812702 / ISBN 13: 9780774812702

Published by UBCPress, Vancouver, 2006

About this Item

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine condition in pictorial boards. Spine a little sunned. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Black & white map. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xxiii, 307pp. Chronicles the experiences of a missionary's wife amongst the Tsimshian people.

Seller Inventory # 313049

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Good Intentions Gone Awry Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest Coast
• Publisher: UBCPress, Vancouver
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774812702
• ISBN 13: 9780774812702
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • History-US&Canada

About this title

Synopsis

Emma Crosby’s letters to family and friends in Ontario shed light on a critical era and bear witness to the contribution of missionary wives. They mirror the hardships and isolation she faced as well as her assumptions about the supremacy of Euro-Canadian society and of Christianity. They speak to her “good intentions” and to the factors that caused them to “go awry.” The authors critically represent Emma’s sincere convictions towards mission work and the running of the Crosby Girls’ Home (later to become a residential school), while at the same time exposing them as a product of the times in which she lived. They also examine the roles of Native and mixed-race intermediaries who made possible the feats attributed to Thomas Crosby as a heroic male missionary persevering on his own against tremendous odds.

About the Author

Jan Hare is Anishinaabe and member of the M'Chigeeng First Nation. She teaches in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. Jean Barman taught for many years in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.