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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     McDowell, Jim, 1934-     Subjects     Brabant, August Joseph, 1845-1912.     Catholic Church -- Missions -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- History.     Missionaries -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- Biography.     Indigenous peoples -- Missions -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- History.     Vancouver Island (B.C.) -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      McDowell, Jim, 1934-       by title:      Father August Braban...       by call number:      266.2092 M138f     Search the Web     McDowell, Jim, 1934-     Brabant, August Joseph, 1845-1912.     Catholic Church -- Missions -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- History.     Missionaries -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- Biography.     Indigenous peoples -- Missions -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- History.     Vancouver Island (B.C.) -- History.       MARC Display

Father August Brabant : saviour or scourge? / Jim McDowell. by McDowell, Jim, 1934- Ronsdale Press, c2012. Call #: 266.2092 M138f Subjects Brabant, August Joseph, 1845-1912.   Catholic Church -- Missions -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- History.   Missionaries -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- Biography.   Indigenous peoples -- Missions -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- History.   Vancouver Island (B.C.) -- History. ISBN:  9781553801894 Description:  xv, 500 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  Father August Brabant (1845-1912) was the first Roman Catholic missionary to live and work among aboriginal people on the west coast of Vancouver Island during the colonial period. He endured long periods of isolation, built a number of log churches and undertook extraordinarily difficult trips along the west coast in dugout canoes. His thirty-three-year-long effort to transform Nuu-chah-nulth culture gives us a provocative case study of the dynamics that shaped, and continue to define,the settler-colonial relationship between indigenous peoples and the state in Canada. Convinced he had a mission to save the indigenous people from being themselves, the zealous priest strove to instill alien spiritual beliefs. He served as a willing instrument for imposing colonial power by introducing new forms of justice, commerce, dress, housing, personal identity, and-most devastating of all-schooling. As the father of British Columbia's first residential school, Brabant precipitated the single institution that proved most destructive to the people he set out to rescue. Brabant's biography will be of interest to historians, anthropologists, political scientists, individuals engaged in First Nations Studies, and general readers. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Young Adult Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection 266.2092 M138f Ya Books Not Available Add Copy to MyList Central Library Young Adult Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection 266.2092 M138f Ya Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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