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Georgic Ideals and Claims of Entitlement in the Life Writing of Alberta Settlers
2013
My study focuses on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of seven British and Anglo-Canadian pioneers who settled in southern Alberta to establish farms and ranches. An exploration of these texts reveals language patterns pertaining to agriculture and animal husbandry practices. The figure of the horse has notable presence in the diaries and memoirs, as does an ethic of stewardship modelled in Virgil's Georgics. The authors of the diaries and letters recorded their georgic practices at the time of
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