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category: Biography & Autobiography
published: May 1998
ISBN:9780888643025
publisher: The University of Alberta Press

The Ladies, the Gwich'in, and the Rat

Travels on the Athabasca, Mackenzie, Rat, Porcupine, and Yukon Rivers in 1926

by Clara Vyvyan, edited by I.S. MacLaren & Lisa LaFramboise

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In 1926, two British women came from Cornwall to Edmonton and travelled through northern Alberta, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon by rail, sternwheeler, and canoe. For the women, it was a liberating experience, yet Vyvyan's narrative, supported by MacLaren and LaFramboise's insightful editorial work, reveals the imperialist attitudes underlying their travels.

About the Authors

Clara Vyvyan


I.S. MacLaren is professor emeritus of history and English at the University of Alberta.

I.S. MacLaren is professor emeritus of history and English at the University of Alberta.
Awards
  • Short-listed, Banff Mountain Book Festival, Adventure Travel
  • Short-listed, Independent Publisher Book Awards, Travel
Editorial Reviews

“An informative double-voiced text that allows the reader to see what Vyvyan did not include from her field notes in her original publication.”

— Canadian Literature

“This remarkable and very attractive volume leaves one with a fresh and lively impression of the people and places of the North in a particular era…

— Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada

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