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Good intentions gone awry : Emma Crosby and the Methodist mission on the Northwest Coast by Jan Hare, Jean Barman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Unlike most missionary scholarship that focuses on male missionaries, __Good Intentions Gone Awry__ chronicles the experiences of a missionary wife. It presents the letters of Emma Crosby, wife of the well-known Methodist missionary Thomas Crosby, who came to Fort Simpson, near present-day Prince Rupert, in 1874 to set up a mission among the Tsimshian people.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. The authors critically represent Emma's sincere convictions towards mission work and the running of the Crosby Girl's 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 missionary persevering on his own against tremendous odds.

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Author

Jan Hare, Jean Barman

Publisher

University of British Columbia Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780774855198

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography