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

Marry Eggermont-Molenaar and Paul Callens, eds. Missionaries Among Miners, Migrants, and Blackfoot: The Van Tighem Brothers' Diaries, Alberta, 1875-1917. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007. xx + 424 pp. $39.95 paperback.

Belgian brothers Leonard and Victor Van Tighem devoted substantial portions of their adult lives to missionary work in service of the Catholic Church during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in what would became southwestern Alberta, Canada. Leonard, the younger of the two siblings, was an Oblate priest for predominantly settler communities in Lethbridge for over 25 years, and then for another decade in towns such as ...

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