Pilgrimage opens in the deep winter of 1891 on the Métis and missionary settlement of Lac St. Anne, Canada. A young woman of mixed-blood named Mahkesîs is carrying the child of the married Englishman who manages the Hudson Bay Company trading post. She is forced to reveal her devastating secret to her Cree grandmother. As an unmarried Catholic girl, Mahkesîs waits for a miracle in the very place others come for redemption.
Set in a northern landscape, Pilgrimage is a brilliant debut novel about love and loss and women and men trying to survive the violent intimacy of a small place in a changing colonial empire.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2013.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781927366172 9781927366196
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.D2853
- LCCN Item number
- P55 2013eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (280 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00233258 (OCoLC)860709359 (CaOOCEL)446447
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- 1: Hibernation 10
- 2: New Year 27
- 3: Misconceptions 44
- 4: Easter 60
- 5: Summer Solstice 75
- 6: St. Anne’s Feast Day 90
- 7: Scowing 106
- 8: Trading 125
- 9: Missions 141
- 10: Confessions 160
- 11: Thanksgiving 172
- 12: Rescue 185
- 13: Discovery 201
- 14: Winter Solstice 217
- 15: Birthday 230
- 16: Requiem 246
- 17: Journey 260
- 18: Redemption 269
- Author’s Note 281
- Historical Note 285
- Acknowledgments 288
- About the Author 289
