Mrs. Adelaide Ranger
Date
1973-07-19
Authors
Ranger, Adelaide (Mrs.)
Pearlstone, Carol
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
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Publisher
Canadian Plains Research Centre
Abstract
Mrs. Ranger was born in Batoche around 1892. She gives an account of the Riel Rebellion of 1885 as told by her mother, shares childhood memories of Gabriel Dumont, the effects on the Metis community by the Depression and the two world wars and gives her impressions of how the Metis are treated by various outside groups.
Description
12 p. transcript of an interview with Mrs. Adelaide Ranger conducted by Carol Pearlstone on July 19, 1973. Tape number IH-138, transcript disc 24.
Keywords
Agriculture -- Farming, Depression (1930s), Disease and illness -- Measles, Education, Metis -- And agriculture, Metis -- Attitudes toward, Riel Rebellion (1885) -- Accounts of, World War I -- Enlistment, World War II -- Attitudes toward, Batoche, Saskatchewan, Dumont, Gabriel, St. Isadore De Bellevue, Saskatchewan, Winnipeg, Manitoba