Metis Pioneers

In Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur tradeone from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudsons Bay Company traditionwho settled in southern Alberta as the Canadian West transitioned to a sedentary agricultural and industrial economy. MacKinnon provides rare insight into their lives, demonstrating the contributions Metis women made to the building of the Prairie West. This is a compelling tale of two womens acts of quiet resistance in the final days of the British Empire.