Strangers in the house : a prairie story of bigotry and belonging
2021
Daisy Sound Recording
When researching the first occupant of her Saskatoon home, Candace Savage discovers a family more fascinating and heartbreaking than she expected. Napoléon Sureau dit Blondin built the house in the 1920s, an era when French-speakers like him were deemed "undesirable" by the political and social elite, who sought to populate the Canadian prairies with WASPs only. In an atmosphere poisoned first by the Orange Order and then by the Ku Klux Klan, Napoléon and his young family adopted anglicized names and did their best to disguise their "foreignness". Savage scours public records and historical accounts and interviews several of Napoléon's descendants, including his youngest son, to reveal a family story marked by challenge and resilience. In the process, she examines a troubling episode in Canadian history, one with surprising relevance today. 2019
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780221100123
- 0221100121
Edition: Daisy edition.
Description:
- 1 DAISY disc (10 hr., 12 min.) : sound ; 12 cm
- digital DAISY
Notes:
- Recording produced by CNIB.
- Search and access by headings and pages.
- Access restricted to persons who are visually impaired or physically disabled and cannot use conventional print materials.
- Narrated by Pat Softly.
- Audio and text.
- Reproduced from: Toronto : Greystone Books, 2019. 9781771642040
- DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression at 32 kbps.
- System requirements: IBM PC or compatible; double speed or faster CD-ROM drive; sound card and sound output device; DAISY playback software or DAISY talking book player. Also plays in CD-MP3 player or computer with MP3-capable software.
- Studio original.
Contents:
- 1. Little House
- 2. Tangled Roots
- 3. Making Connections
- 4. An Agitation of Ghosts
- 5. Township of Tiny
- 6. Prairie Fire
- 7. Land Claims
- 8. Proving Up
- 9. Crystal Beach
- 10. Battle Grounds
- 11. Hard Times
- 12. Invisible Empire
- 13. Revelations
- Blondin Family Tree (Partial)
- Map of Places in the Text.
Publisher or Distributor Number: DC59186
Control Number: 3164989
Publisher: Toronto : CNIB, 2021.Subjects:
- Canada -- Histoire -- 1914-1945.
- Canada -- History -- 1914-1945.
- Canada -- Race relations.
- Daisy talking books.
- Immigrants -- Canada.
- Minorities -- Canada.
- Parent, Clarissa Marie, 1898-1977.
- Racism -- Canada -- History.
- Racisme -- Canada -- Histoire.
- Saskatoon (Sask.) -- History.
- Sureau dit Blondin, Napoléon, 1879-1946.
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