Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country: Memories of a Mother and Son

by Elizabeth Bingham Young

In May of 1868, Elizabeth Bingham Young and her husband of only five months, Egerton Ryerson Young, began a long journey from Hamilton, Ontario, to the Methodist mission of Rossville, at Norway House. Over the next eight years, Elizabeth supported her husband's work at Rossville and then at the newly founded mission of Berens River, on the east shore of Lake Winnipeg. In these remote outposts, she gave birth to four children, one of whom died in infancy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771990031
• ISBN13: 9781771990035
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Athabasca University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.9"