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Away - Maritimers in Massachusetts, Ontario, and Alberta (Hardcover)
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Away - Maritimers in Massachusetts, Ontario, and Alberta (Hardcover)
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"These accounts are not interviews' in the sense of structured sets
of questions and answers. Rather, time and time again, as I
introduced myself and my subject by explaining something about the
theme of leaving home in Maritime history, some kind of chord was
struck in the self-understanding of those I spoke with, and we then
spent an hour, an afternoon, or a day recording a conversation
about the place of leaving home in their lives and in their
thinking." from the Preface In Away, Gary Burrill presents the
voices of Maritimers in exile as they talk about their decisions to
leave home, their experiences moving to and establishing themselves
in new areas, and the way their exile from the Maritime provinces
of Canada has shaped their views of themselves, their adopted
communities, and their native homes. Each of the book's three
sections deals largely with the experiences of a generation. From
the turn of the century to the 1920s and 1930s, Maritimers looked
primarily to Boston for work when they made their decision to leave
home; during the economic expansion that followed the Second World
War, southern Ontario was the destination of choice; when western
Canada experienced an "oil boom" in the 1970s and early 1980s, a
younger generation of Maritimers was drawn to Alberta. Taken
together, the reflections and autobiographical reminiscences of
these Maritimers provide a broad geographical and generational
picture of the experience at the centre of post-Confederation life
in the Maritimes -- exile, out-migration, going away.
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