TY - BOOK ID - 68925018 TI - Man proposes, God disposes AU - Maturié, Pierre AU - Bosley, Vivien PY - 2013 SN - 1926836553 192683657X 1926836561 1299394973 9781926836553 9781926836560 9781926836553 9781926836577 9781299394971 PB - Edmonton, AB DB - UniCat KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Pioneers KW - Maturié, Pierre. KW - Athabasca River Region (Alta.) KW - First settlers KW - Settlers, First KW - Persons KW - Border life KW - Homesteading KW - Pioneer life KW - Adventure and adventurers KW - Manners and customs KW - History KW - memoir KW - francophone KW - homesteading KW - Northern Alberta UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:68925018 AB - 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 1914 to fight in the First World War. Like that of so many youthful pioneers, his story is one of adventure and hardship—perilous journeys, railroad construction in the Rockies, panning for gold in swift-flowing streams, transporting goods for the Hudson’s Bay Company along the Athabasca River. Blessed with the rare gift of a natural storyteller, Maturié conveys his abiding nostalgia for a country he loved deeply yet ultimately had to abandon.Maturié’s memoir, Man Proposes, God Disposes, appeared in France in 1972, to a warm reception. Now, in the deft and marvellously empathetic translation of Vivien Bosley, it is at long last available in English. As a portrait of pioneer life in northern Alberta, as a window onto the French experience in Canada, and, above all, as an irresistible story—it will continue to find a place in the hearts of readers for years to come. ER -