Homesteader : A Prairie Boyhood Recalled

Hardcover with dust jacket, 222pages, 6x9 in - 15x28 cm.

Brodart-wrapped jacket taped to boards at flaps by previous owner; Brodart scuffed. Jacket lightly creased, tape residue to jacket front at top. Jacket spine lightly bumped at head and heel. Ffep., title page, and p.5 stamped by previous owner; gift inscription by previous owner to ffep.

In this volume, former Canadian Broadcasting Company correspondent James M. Minifie recounts stories of his family’s immigration from England to Canada in the early 1900s and their subsequent homesteading in southern Saskatchewan. He describes his childhood in Shropshire, the family’s journey overseas to reunite with their father (who arrived in 1909 to acquire land), and their early years establishing a homestead and farming in Saskatchewan. The final chapters recall Minifie’s service in the Canadian army during WWI and years at Regina College. With modesty and humor, Minifie recalls his family’s first fifteen years on the prairies.

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