Research Catalog

Title

Prairie people : a celebration of my homeland / Robert Collins.

Author

Collins, Robert, 1924-

Publication

Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, c2003.

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Details

Description

x, 350 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Collins was born and raised on a Saskatchewan farm, but spent most of his adult life living elsewhere. He returns to his homeland to pay homage to it and its people, in a combination of stories, anecdotes, and history told in the voices of ordinary citizens. He explores the characteristics that define these people to themselves and to the rest of Canada: their pessimism, independence, friendliness, and self-reliance.

Subject

• Prairie Provinces > History
• Prairie Provinces > Social life and customs
• Prairie Provinces > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-337) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

When the prairie casts its spell -- How nature shapes them -- Beginnings -- Bad old days -- A kinder, gentler place -- People of the soil -- The prairie town -- City lights -- Food for body and soul -- Faith -- Tales of the oil patch -- The third solitude -- Those who went away -- How do we hate the east? Let us count the ways -- Tomorrow.

ISBN

0771022573 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003501455

OCLC

• 53469431
• SCSB-11871236

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library