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In this second volume of her memoir, Dorinda Vollmer continues her life story following her departure from the Roseau River Indian Reserve in southern Manitoba in June, 1981. Settling in Ontario, she established her ministry in small rural towns first in Grand Valley and Monticello and then in New Liskeard, Warsaw, Millbrook and Orono United Churches. Sometimes she found herself mired in conflict and controversy because of her progressive and inclusive views of society. Using compassion and persistence, she fought to build her role as a community leader and, in the process, learned a great deal about how we handle ourselves when we are frustrated and angry. This is the story of one woman’s...
In this second volume of her memoir, Dorinda Vollmer continues her life story following her departure from the Roseau River Indian Reserve in southern Manitoba in June, 1981. Settling in Ontario, she established her ministry in small rural towns first in Grand Valley and Monticello and then in New Liskeard, Warsaw, Millbrook and Orono United Churches. Sometimes she found herself mired in conflict and controversy because of her progressive and inclusive views of society. Using compassion and persistence, she fought to build her role as a community leader and, in the process, learned a great deal about how we handle ourselves when we are frustrated and angry. This is the story of one woman’s...
Issues for 1926- include index.
"Dummer township differs from its neighbours in many ways. Perhaps most significant is its geology – the limestone outcroppings and the drumlins and eskers of the Dummer moraine which created a unique challenge for the earliest settlers who attempted to farm the land. But equally important was the character and quality of those settlers themselves – largely self-sufficient, independent yeoman stock from England and Scotland, with a smaller number of Irish families. Little has been written about the groups of English and Scottish settlers who found their way to Peterborough County as part of the great wave of immigration to Canada in the early 1830s. Of the latter group, some 2000 came to...
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