By Frederick Niven,Alison Calder
initially released in 1935, Frederick Niven’s The Flying Years tells the historical past of Western Canada from the 1850s to the Twenties as witnessed via Angus Munro, a tender Scot compelled to to migrate to Canada while his kinfolk is evicted from their farm. operating within the remoted surroundings of Rocky Mountain condo, Angus secretly marries a Cree lady, who dies in a measles epidemic whereas he's on a longer business journey. the invention, fourteen years later, that his spouse had given beginning to a boy who used to be followed by way of one other Cree relatives and raised to be “all Indian” confirms Angus’s sympathies towards Aboriginal peoples, and he ultimately turns into the Indian Agent at the reserve the place his mystery son lives. Angus’s ongoing negotiation of either the literal and symbolic roles of “White Father” occurs in the context of questions about race and country, assimilation and distinction, and the way forward for the Canadian West. opposed to a heritage of source exploitation and western improvement, the radical queries where of Aboriginal peoples during this new country and means that development brings with it a price.
Alison Calder’s afterword examines the novel’s depiction of the paternalistic dating among the Canadian executive and Aboriginal peoples in Western Canada, and situates the unconventional by way of modern discussions approximately race and biology.
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