"These accounts are not `interviews' in the sense of structured sets of questions and answers. Rather, time and time again, as I introduced myself and my subject by explaining something about the theme of leaving home in Maritime history, some kind of chord was struck in the self-understanding of those I spoke with, and we then spent an hour, an afternoon, or a day recording a conversation about the place of leaving home in their lives and in their thinking." from the Preface
In Away, Gary Burrill presents the voices of Maritimers in exile as they talk about their decisions to leave home, their experiences moving to and establishing themselves in new areas, and the way their exile from the Maritime provinces of Canada has shaped their views of themselves, their adopted communities, and their native homes.
Each of the book's three sections deals largely with the experiences of a generation. From the turn of the century to the 1920s and 1930s, Maritimers looked primarily to Boston for work when they made their decision to leave home; during the economic expansion that followed the Second World War, southern Ontario was the destination of choice; when western Canada experienced an "oil boom" in the 1970s and early 1980s, a younger generation of Maritimers was drawn to Alberta.
Taken together, the reflections and autobiographical reminiscences of these Maritimers provide a broad geographical and generational picture of the experience at the centre of post-Confederation life in the Maritimes -- exile, out-migration, going away.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Preface 12
- Introduction 20
- PART ONE: MASSACHUSETTS 26
- The Maillets from Mavillette 28
- Leo Maillet 28
- Louis Maillet 30
- From the Harvest 34
- Ken Ring 35
- Owen Caldwell 39
- Donald "Danny" Cameron 48
- Angus Crowdis 52
- Louis Bannister 55
- Dances, Dancers, and Fiddlers 58
- Ralph MacGillivray 58
- Elizabeth and Donald "Danny" Cameron 61
- Stan Myers 66
- Never Done 74
- Agnes Gillis and Constance Kroha 74
- Ann Hyde 80
- Gladys McCoy 84
- Local 67 87
- Herbert G. Vickerson 87
- Billy MacGillivray 90
- The Biologist 97
- Ralph Wetmore 97
- Sisters 104
- Villa Easton 104
- Gertrude Dixon 106
- Myrtle Richardson 112
- Members 115
- Alta Holmes 116
- Angus Crowdis 117
- Christine MacKay Carmichael 119
- Isabel Morrison 121
- Boats Down the Bay 124
- Lloyd and Merle Merriam 124
- PART TWO: ONTARIO 128
- Parliament and Gerrard 130
- Bruce and Molly Greenlaw 130
- It Owns You 139
- Bud MacLeod 139
- Up and Down the Road 143
- Jim Ormond 143
- Bud and Essie Davidson 150
- James Clarke 155
- Billy King 158
- Pulpits 162
- Robert Mumford 164
- Ian MacLean 166
- Kicking It Around 167
- Brad Elliot 167
- Allan Cooper 171
- Jean Andrews 174
- Greg Kavanagh 179
- Ted Ring 181
- A Banker and a Politician 183
- Arthur Crockett 183
- Flora MacDonald 185
- Here to Stay 187
- Mary Johnston 187
- Phyllis Trenholm 188
- Myra Jones 191
- Lois Veniot 193
- The Prince of Wales 194
- Stuart, Vivian, and Beth Walsh 194
- PART THREE: ALBERTA 200
- A Miner, a Mechanic, and a Driver 202
- Donald MacDonald 202
- Don Bishop 205
- Ron MacNeil 209
- The Maritime Reunion Association of Alberta 216
- Keith McElwain 217
- Danny Batherson 221
- Jeff Miller 224
- Larry MacDonald 226
- Of Jobs 232
- AlanWaddell 232
- David Bona 238
- Shawn Mulherin 239
- Halifax Sells Alberta 244
- Laureen Bowness 244
- Mike Hasler 247
- Colin Logan 253
- 2506 4th Avenue NW 256
- Lloyd Wallace 256
- Alan Shaw 258
- Duane Lee 261
- Vince Buchanan 265