Little is known about middle class women settlers who came to BC during the Cariboo gold rush in the late 1800s. UBC professor emerita Linda Peterat has remedied this with a meticulously researched book about three Danish sisters seeking a break from the constraints and traditions of their European homelands as told in From Denmark to the Cariboo: The epic journey of the Lindhard Sisters (Heritage House, 2022). The sisters, Laura, Caroline and Christine were entrepreneurial in their own right and they arrived in 1870 “attempting to seize the same opportunities as men while securing better futures for themselves and the next generation.” Peterat shows how they accomplished what they set out to do.

BOOKS:

Making Textile Studies Matter: Inside Outstanding School Programs (Pacific Educational Press, 1999) 9781895766370

Home Economics Now: Transformative Practice, Ecology, and Everyday Life (Pacific Educational Press, 2004) 9781895766745. Co-authored with Mary Gale Smith and Mary Leah de Zwart.

From Denmark to the Cariboo (Heritage, 2022) $26.95 9781772033939

[BCBW 2003]