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Missionaries Among Miners, Migrants & Blackfoot: The Van Tighem Brothers Diaries, Alberta, 1875-1917.(Brief article)(Book review)
Missionaries Among Miners, Migrants & Blackfoot: The Van Tighem Brothers Diaries, Alberta, 1875-1917
edited by Mary Eggermont Molenaar & Paul Callens. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 426 pp., illus., soft cover, $39.95.
The Van Tighem brothers came to southern Alberta in the late Nineteen Century as Oblate missionaries. Leonard, the eldest, established churches at Lethbridge and elsewhere in the area while Victor laboured on the Peigan and Blood Indian reserves.
The volume consists of diaries, letters, newspaper comments, and other material to provide a detailed look at the work of these two men. Leonard's story is the most interesting, not only because he was working in a larger community, but because of his broad views of the community. Victor, on the other hand, is narrowly focussed. Both, however, contain an overwhelming amount of data on religious ...
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