The Ermatingers: A 19th-Century Ojibwa-Canadian Family

by W. Brian Stewart

In about 1800, fur trader Charles Ermatinger married an Obijwa woman, Mananowe. Their three sons grew up with both their mother's hunter-warrior culture and their father's European culture. As adults, they lived adventurously in Montreal and St Thomas, where they were accepted and loved by fellow citizens while publicly retaining their Ojibwa heritage. The Ermatingers contrasts the "European" commercial and trading society in urban Montreal, where...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774812346
• ISBN13: 9780774812344
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: UBC Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"