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Dr. Mary Percy, twenty-five years old and from a comfortable Birmingham family, left home in 1929 to take up a medical posting in the Peace River area of northern Alberta. Her letters home, collected here, vividly describe her adventurous life on one of Canada's last frontiers. Her district covered 900 square kilometres of wooded, boggy land, which she travelled on horseback, by dogsled, and sometimes by automobile.
Dr. Percy faced many issues in caring for the Metis and Native people, as well as for increasing numbers of immigrant families. Her greatest medical challenges, though, were the result of poverty and isolation - and she often railed against the government for what she saw as irresponsible settlement policies and lack of attention to her community.
Despite the strenuousness of her responsibilities as doctor, dentist, public health officer, and coroner, Dr. Percy enjoyed the personal and professional challenges presented by wilderness life, and her enthusiasm for this great adventure, which permeates her letters, is infectious. Indeed, by the end of 1930 she complained that the area was becoming too civilized! The letters conclude in January 1931, with her marriage to farmer-fur trader Frank Jackson and her subsequent move farther north, to Keg River, where she lives today.
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The letters of Dr. Mary Percy, who at the age of 25 left home in Birmingham to take on responsibilities as a doctor, dentist, public health officer, and coroner in the Peace River area of Northern Alberta, ministering to the MTtis and Native people, as well as to increasing numbers of immigrant families. The introduction by editor McGinnis provides
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JANICE DICKIN is an associate professor in the Faculty of General Studies at the University of Calgary, and the editor of Suitable for the Wilds.
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Suitable for the Wilds: Letters from Northern Alberta 1929-1931
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Univ of Toronto Press, Downsview, Ontario, Canada, 1995
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