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McDowell, Jim, 1934-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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