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156 p. Illustrated.Dust jacket is unmarked with only mild shelfwear to corners and faint sunning. The book is ex-library with internal stamps, stickers, and pocket remnant, and the covers have minor tape residue to cloth side (from previous jacket sleeve) but otherwise the book is in Fine condition.Edited and with an introduction by Ronald A. Wells. From the dust jacket flap: Letters From a Young Emigrant in Manitoba, first published in 1883 and long out-of-print, is one of the best records of Canadian immigrant life. The letters were written by Edward ffolkes, who left England in 1882 study at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph and later to homestead in southern Manitoba. They describe with rare insight the daily struggles and expectations of an "ordinary man" who had the courage to take up a new life on the frontier. Ronald A. Wells has introduced the volume with a wide-ranging essay on the role of popular knowledge about Canada in Britain and the significant shift of British migration from…
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Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba A Record of Emigrant Life in the Canadian West Hardcover - 1981
by R. A. Wells
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- Title Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba A Record of Emigrant Life in the Canadian West
- Author R. A. Wells
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher Univ of Manitoba Pr, Winnipeg
- Date October 1981
- ISBN 9780887551260
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Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press 0-88755--126-2 [0-88755--126-2] 1981. (Cloth) 157pp. Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Illus. Reprint of original 1883 edition. Edited and introduced by Ronald Wells. Peel(3) 1188..
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Letters from a young emigrant in Manitoba
by ffolkes, Edward (Letters of Edward ffolkes; Edited with introduction by Ronald A. Wells.)
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Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press [0-88755-126-2] [1981], 1st printing. (Hardcover) 157pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Map endpapers, illustrations. The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn. Letters of Edward ffolkes. Edited with introduction by Ronald A. Wells. Locale: Manitoba; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Manitoba, Pioneer Life--Manitoba).
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