TITLE:
Hobnobbing with a countess and other Okanagan adventures : the diaries of Alice Barrett Parke, 1891 - 1900 / edited by Jo Fraser Jones.
Publication Date:
2001
Publication Information:
Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press,
Physical Description:
349 p. : ill., genealogy tables, map.
Additional Contributors:
Summary:
In 1891, Alice Barrett moved from Port Dover, Ontario, to the Okanagan Valley to keep house for her brother and uncle. She soon married Harold Parke, a former NWMP officer, and spent the next decade recording her experiences in a series of notebooks sent to her Ontario family. Few women's diaries have survived from that time, and Barrett Parke recalls a period of profound transformation in a region newly opened to white settlement by the railway. She was an astute observer and an exceptional writer, and her diaries provide invaluable insights into work, health, religion, race and gender relations, and women's lives.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780774808538
