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Man Proposes, God Disposes : Recollections of a French Pioneer

1 Mar 2013

In 1910, young Pierre Maturié bid farewell to his comfortable bourgeois existence in rural France and travelled to northern Alberta in search of independence, adventure, and newfound prosperity. Some sixty years later, he wrote of the four years he spent in Canada before he returned to France in 1914 to fight in the First World War. Like that of so many youthful pioneers, his story is one of adventure and hardship—perilous journeys, railroad construction in the Rockies, panning for gold in swift-flowing streams, transporting goods for the Hudson’s Bay Company along the Athabasca River. Maturié’s memoir, <em>Man Proposes, God Disposes,</em> appeared in France in 1972, to a warm reception. Now, in the deft and marvellously empathetic translation of Vivien Bosley, it is at long last available in English.

Authors

Robert Wardhaugh, Gilles Cadrin, Vivien Bosley, Vivian Bosley, Pierre Maturié

ISBN
9781926836560 1926836561
Pages
269
Published in
Edmonton, CA