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Hobnobbing with a Countess and Other Okanagan Adventures: The Diaries of Alice Barrett Parke, 1891-1900

By Jo Fraser Jones

Book information

Publisher
UBC Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0774808527, 9780774808521
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
26 MB (27125786 bytes)
Series
The Pioneers of British Columbia
Pages
349\400
Time added
2016-11-29 23:00:43
Biographies & Memoirs;Arts & Literature;Ethnic & N

Description

In 1889, Alice Barrett moved west from Ontario to the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia to keep house for her brother and uncle. She soon married Harold Parke, a former military officer, and recorded her experiences in a series of notebooks.Few women’s diaries have survived from that time, and Parke recalls a period of profound transformation in a region newly opened to white settlement by the railway. She was an astute observer and an exceptional writer, and her diaries provide valuable insights into work, health, religion, race and gender relations, and women’s lives. She was part of the circle of the Countess of Aberdeen, who stayed at nearby Coldstream Ranch, and became the first corresponding secretary of the Vernon chapter of the National Council of Women.

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