Mamie's children

About this book

Like most women born before the turn of the century, Mamie Elizabeth lived, by the standard of her day, an ordinary existence. She and her family lived in a small clearing near Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan, and they were wiped out by the Great Depression. Yet day by day this determined woman cobbled together a rich, full existence that was anything but ordinary. To Mamie, the western frontier made everything seem possible. Her days were filled with characters - from her own unusual children to native Indians and fire-breathing evangelists - and their dramas were played out against the astonishing history, climate and landscape of the Canadian West.