Cradling the past : a biography of Margaret Shaw
Madelaine Wong and her mother Margaret Shaw offer a remarkable and heart-wrenching account of the life of an Alberta woman. The sotries recount Margaret's poverty stricken childhood during the Great Depression, her struggle for acceptance in a convent boarding school and her experiences as a teacher in one-room school in rural Alberta during World War 2. The stories also tell of the difficulties she encountered in raising a large family. When it...
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