From the Prairies with Hope

Download or read book From the Prairies with Hope written by Jane L. Aberson and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Aberson's newspaper articles document the everyday life of a Dutch immigrant family farming on the prairies six miles from Dauphin, Manitoba, during the Depression. They were published in Dutch from 1929 to 1966. The articles contain a continuous record, except for the war years, of the settlement experience of an immigrant family for thirty years. At the age of eighty, the author translated into English a particular set of articles covering the years 1929-36. This document contains her letters from this period.