TITLE:
So few on earth : a Labrador Métis woman remembers / Josie Penny.
By:
Publication Date:
2010
Publication Information:
Toronto : Dundurn Press,
Physical Description:
323 p. : ill., maps.
Subject Term:
Summary:
Josephine Mildred Curl Penny grew up in Labrador during the 1940s and 1950s. Like many Ms, she and her family lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle, moving inside to the primitive settlement of Roaches Brook each fall to hunt and trap, andoutside to Spotted Islands in the spring to harvest the rich fishing grounds. Sent away to hospital at age four, to boarding school when she was seven, and forced out to work at age eleven, Josie lost the family bond so important to a young child. She recounts the years spent at Lockwood Boarding School where she suffered atrocious punishments, merciless teasing, and the humiliation of two rapes. The depersonalization and constant punishment eventually took their toll, and her once free-spirited nature was broken. Reading became her only escape.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781554887095
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