Article: Missionaries Among Miners, Migrants, and Blackfoot: The Van Tighem Brothers' Diaries, Alberta, 1875-1917.(Book review)

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

Edited by Mary Eggermont-Molenaar and Paul Callens. Calgary, Alta.: Univ. of Calgary Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 424. Paperback CA$39.95.

Missionaries Among Miners, Migrants, and Blackfoot publishes the diaries and correspondence of two Flemish brothers who came to southern Alberta as Catholic missionaries: Leonard (b. 1851) arrived in 1882 as an Oblate priest, and his older brother Victor (b. 1845) arrived in 1886 as a brother. Brief sketches of the worlds from which they came and to which they arrived, along with circumstances leading to their departure, ...

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