The McQueen family letters chronicle in often breath-taking detail the activities and relationships of a farming family rooted in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, in the second half of the nineteenth century. All but one of the six daughters and the only surviving son taught school at some point in their lives, moving around Nova Scotia and, in the case of the two youngest daughters, to British Columbia, to teach. A highly mobile family, they kept in touch by writing letters that survive as remarkable documents of social history in the early years of Canada's industrial age.
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