Missionaries Among Miners, Migrants, and Blackfoot: The Van Tighem Brothers' Diaries, Alberta 1875-1917

Edited by Mary Eggermont-Molenaar and Paul Callens

$39.95 sc
March 2007
ISBN 1-55238-189-7
326 pp., b&w photographs
6" x 9 "
Legacies Shared Series, No. 24

Indigenous Studies
Religious Studies

About the Book

This volume contains the diaries of the Vantighem brothers – Leonard, who served as a priest around 1900 in southern Alberta among miners and migrants, and Victor, who served for 43 years as a lay Brother among the Peigan and Blood Indians. The diaries are interspersed with letters from family and friends and letters and articles by contemporary bishops, fellow priests and Brothers. The Vantighem brothers’ diaries offer a fascinating glimpse of life during Alberta’s early settlement and development and play out against a backdrop of sometimes dramatic family and political affairs back in Belgium. The book contains valuable primary source material, most of which has been previously unpublished, and some of which has been translated from the Flemish-Dutch and French.

About the Author

Mary Eggermont-Molenaar was born in the Netherlands in 1945. She received a BA in social work and and MA in law and taught health law. She immigrated to Canada in1986 and is currently working as a freelance writer and translator. Her most recent project is Montana 1911, A Professor and his Wife among the Blackfeet (2005).

Paul Callens lives in Belgium and is employed as structural engineer. Since 1997, he has been active in the Flemish Genealogical Society, and has been researching and compiling information on Belgian emigration to America.

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