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- Canada--Race relations
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- Canada--History--1914-1945
- Racism--Canada--History
- Saskatoon (Sask.)--History
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Title Statement | Strangers in the house: a prairie story of bigotry and belonging / Candace Savage. |
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Author | Savage, Candace |
Publication | Toronto: CNIB,2021.Toronto: CELA,2021. |
Extent of Item | 1 computer optical disc (10 hr., 12 min.) |
ISBN | 9780221100123 0221100121 |
Other Number | (OCoLC)1119555971 |
General Notes | Recording produced by CNIB. |
Performance Credits | Narrated by Pat Softly. |
System Details | Search and access by headings and pages. DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression at 32 kbps. |
Contents | 1. Little House -- 2. Tangled Roots -- 3. Making Connections -- 4. An Agitation of Ghosts -- 5. Township of Tiny -- 6. Prairie Fire -- 7. Land Claims -- 8. Proving Up -- 9. Crystal Beach -- 10. Battle Grounds -- 11. Hard Times -- 12. Invisible Empire -- 13. Revelations -- Blondin Family Tree (Partial) -- Map of Places in the Text. |
Summary | When researching the first occupant of her Saskatoon home, Candace Savage discovers a family more fascinating and heartbreaking than she expected. NapoleÌon Sureau dit Blondin built the house in the 1920s, an era when French-speakers like him were deemed "undesirable" by the political and social elite, who sought to populate the Canadian prairies with WASPs only. In an atmosphere poisoned first by the Orange Order and then by the Ku Klux Klan, NapoleÌon and his young family adopted anglicized names and did their best to disguise their "foreignness". Savage scours public records and historical accounts and interviews several of NapoleÌon's descendants, including his youngest son, to reveal a family story marked by challenge and resilience. In the process, she examines a troubling episode in Canadian history, one with surprising relevance today. 2019 |
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Racism--History--Canada | |
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Immigrants | |
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Race relations | |
Racism | |
By Name | Sureau dit Blondin, NapoleÌon,1879-1946 |
Parent, Clarissa Marie,1898-1977 | |
By Location | Canada--Race relations |
Canada--History--1914-1945 | |
Saskatoon (Sask.)--History | |
Canada--Histoire--1914-1945 | |
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Saskatchewan--Saskatoon | |
By Genre | History |