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Peel 4407

Maclean, John (1851-1928) [info]. Vanguards of Canada. Toronto: Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, Young People's Forward Movement Department, 1918.

Physical description: x, 262 p., [24] leaves of illus., map, ports.; 19.5 cm.

Language: English

A series of sketches of Methodist missionaries: "Kahkewayquonaby, of the Six Nation Indians"; "Shawundais, the Ojibway orator"; "James Evans, inventor of the Cree syllabic"; Robert Terrill Rundle, first Protestant missionary in the Northwest"; "Thomas Murlburt, linguist and scholar"; "Thomas Woolsey, a pioneer of the buffalo days"; "George McDougall, traveller and hero"; "George Young, the early days at Fort Garry"; "Chief Joseph and the Oka Indians"; "Thomas Crosby up and down the Pacific coast"; "John McDougall, missionary and empire builder"; "James Woodsworth, the ecclesiastical statesman"; "Martyrs of the cross"; "Heroines of western Canada."

Subject headings:

• Biography
• Biographies
• Frontier and pioneer life
• Methodist Church--Missions