Into the Heart of the Country
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"Set in 18th-century Churchill. Appearing only fleetingly in the historical record of the Hudson's Bay Company are the Native women who lived at the company's Prince of Wales Fort and served as "country wives" to the European traders - and whose survival was bound, for better or worse,
… More »"Set in 18th-century Churchill. Appearing only fleetingly in the historical record of the Hudson's Bay Company are the Native women who lived at the company's Prince of Wales Fort and served as "country wives" to the European traders - and whose survival was bound, for better or worse, to the fortunes of these men. Across more than two centuries, the mixed-blood woman Mary Norton, daughter of Governor Moses and personal favourite of explorer Samuel Hearne, speaks to us from her dreams."--Publisher.
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Add a CommentThis story is set in Churchill, Manitoba in the 17th century. It is told via British Governors of the Hudson Bay post and the children they father with aboriginal women. The book is patronizing to aboriginal peoples and contains obvious mistakes about aboriginal culture (e.g., references to Inuit carving, kissing, etc.).
" In her latest novel, Giller Prize nominee Pauline Holdstock has taken on a tragic and little-known chapter in Canadian history. Into the Heart of the Country explores the relationship between the English fur traders in Churchill, Manitoba, and the native women on whom they relied on for their survival....Holdstock’s writing manages to be both heartbreakingly poetic and densely detailed.....sad passages, ghostlike recollections, written almost from the vantage point of the present, establish the book as a great work of fiction." REVIEWED BY SUZANNE DESROCHERS From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published Friday, Mar. 25, 2011