For my father, Gordon Clark Dickin, the son and grandson of pioneers LOOKING FOR COUNTRY: A NORWEGIAN IMMIGRANTS ALBERTA MEMOIR INTRODUCTION 5 IntroOUCtion — Janice Dickin n the island of Karmoy, near the town of Skudneshaven, ' in the jurisdiction of Rogaland, in the northern nation of Norway, there lived at the turn of the century a farm- ing-fishing-professional family. [...] Part of the country's econom- ic recovery was accomplished through shipping and, by the end of the nineteenth century, tiny Norway had the third largest merchant navy in the world, after the United Kingdom and the United States. [...] In one documented case, 80 fisherman from Skudneshavn on the island of Karmoy took part in the fisheries on the east coast of the United States in 1904 and then returned home for the next year's winter herring season.9 By the time the Olsens left Norway, family emigration complete with a string of children was no longer the norm. [...] By the 1900s, nearly two-thirds of the emigrants were single men between the ages of 15 and 25.10 As well, the Olsens differed from the earlier emigration of families in that they were not heading for the American midwest but for Canada, 8 LOOKING FOR COUNTRY A NORWEGIAN IMMIGRANTS ALBERTA MEMOIR & a country to which countless and uncounted Norwegians had set sail en route to the United States but [...] The government assigned her one third of the island as her exclusive territory and she worked hard at her job and at the farmwork, leaving her children in the care of a babysitter or of one another.
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- 971.23/3
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
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- Previous ed. has title: The Nose Hills country Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 1552380076 9781552383926
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- F1080.N6
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- M47 1999eb
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Table of Contents
- Series Preface 4
- Acknowledgements 4
- Introduction 6
- Looking for Country 46
- Chapter I 50
- Chapter II 60
- Chapter III 65
- Ckapter IV 77
- Chapter V 82
- Ckapter VI 89
- Ckapter VII 98
- Chapter VIII 101
- Chapter IX 104
- Chapter X 110
- Chapter XI 113
- Chapter XII 116
- Chapter XIII 119
- Chapter XIV 123
- Chapter XV 127
- Chapter XVI 130
- Chapter XVII 133
- Chapter XVIII 137
- Chapter XIX 141
- Chapter XX 144
- Chapter XXI 147
- Chapter XXII 151
- Chapter XXIII 157
- Epilogue 160
- Index 162
- A 162
- B 162
- C 163
- D 165
- E 165
- F 166
- G 166
- H 166
- I 167
- J 168
- K 168
- L 168
- M 169
- N 170
- O 171
- P 172
- Q 172
- R 172
- S 173
- T 174
- U 175
- V 175
- W 175
- Y 176
- Z 176
