Man Proposes, God Disposes: Recollections of a French Pioneer

• Main Author: Pierre Maturi (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Athabasca University Press 2013
• Series: Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
• Subjects: History of the Americas; memoir; francophone; homesteading; Northern Alberta
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In 1910, young Pierre Maturié bid farewell to his comfortable bourgeois existence in rural France and travelled to northern Alberta in search of independence, adventure, and newfound prosperity. Some sixty years later, he wrote of the four years he spent in Canada before he returned to France in 19...