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WOMEN
AND THE WHITE
MAN’S GOD
Gender and Race
in the Canadian
Mission Field
This Blessed Wilderness
Archibald McDonald’s Letters
from the Columbia, 1822-44
Edited by Jean Murray Cole
Archibald McDonald was one of the most important
fur traders in the region west of the Rockies. He is
particularly remembered as a factor at Fort Langley,
Kamloops, and Colvile and as one of the traders who
enabled the Hudson’s Bay Company to gain control
of the vast region west of the Rockies. His letters to
friends, business colleagues, missionaries, botanists,
and many others provide a fascinating
narrative of the expansion of the fur trade in the
Pacific Northwest at a critical time in its history.
Jean Murray Cole is an independent writer, researcher,
and historian based in Ontario.
PIONEERS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA SERIES
Myra Rutherdale
January (cloth 2001)
308 pages, 6 x 9”, illus.
ISSN 0847-0537
ISBN 0-7748-0832-2
hardcover, $75.00
ISBN 0-7748-0833-0
paper, $24.95
Women and the White
Man’s God
Gender and Race in the Canadian
Mission Field
Myra Rutherdale
Between 1860 and 1940, Anglican missionaries
were very active in northern British Columbia, Yukon,
and the Northwest Territories. To date, histories of
this mission work have largely focused on men, while
the activities of women – either as missionary wives
or as missionaries in their own right – have been
seen as peripheral at best, if not completely overlooked.
Based on diaries, letters, and mission correspondence,
Women and the White Man’s God examines
women’s roles in northern domestic missions. The
status of women in the Anglican Church, gender relations
in the mission field, and encounters between
Aboriginals and missionaries are carefully scrutinized.
Arguing that the mission encounter challenged
colonial hierarchies, Rutherdale expands our understanding
of colonization at the intersection of
gender, race, and religion.
This book is a critical addition to scholarship in
women’s, Canadian, Native, and religious studies,
and complements a growing body of literature on
gender and empire in Canada and elsewhere.
Myra Rutherdale teaches in the Department of History
at the University of British Columbia.
June
220 pages, 6 x 9”
20 photos
ISBN 0-7748-0904-3
hardcover, $85.00
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