The Importance Of Being Monogamous : Marriage And Nation Building In Western Canada To 1918

The Importance Of Being Monogamous : Marriage And Nation Building In Western Canada To 1918The Importance Of Being Monogamous : Marriage And Nation Building In Western Canada To 1918, Sarah Carter A study of the role of marriage in the social and political development of western Canada from the late nineteenth century to 1918. The work examines the promotion and enforcement of Christian monogamous marriage by colonial authorities as part of broader efforts to regulate Indigenous and settler societies. Drawing on government records, legal

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she traces the impact of social and economic shifts on both Battleford and North Battleford

John Work (c

place of origin

for her depictions of Indigenous life

this work recounts the Barr expedition to the Canadian Northwest in fictionalized form

the book reflects nineteenth-century attitudes toward law

he continued freelancing and published several collections of his cartoons

hospitality

As settlers

He begins by outlining encounters between First Nations groups and European fur traders and explorers in the area in the 18th and 19th centuries