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Article: Marry Eggermont-Molenaar and Paul Callens, eds.(Missionaries Among Miners, Migrants, and Blackfoot: The Van Tighem Brothers' Diaries, Alberta, 1875-1917)(Book review)
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- American Review of Canadian Studies
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- June 22, 2008
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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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... ... Migrants & Blackfoot Mary Eggermont-Molenaar and Paul Callens, Editors University of Calgary Press 2500 University Drive ... are the transcribed diaries of brothers Leonard and Victor Van Tighem, Catholic missionaries in Alberta between 1974 and 1917 ...
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