Summary: | Transcribed and edited by Claudia L. Bushman. Includes bibliographical references and index. Margaret "Pansy" Gordon's life covered a remarkable span of years and territory. She lived one century, and the years took her from England to residences in British Columbia, Salt Lake City, and an Ojibway village on Georgian Bay back to Utah and then Canada to homes at the shore of Bear Lake, on an Alberta farm, and in a prairie town and to Los Angeles for the last decades of her life. She had gone to British Columbia as the daughter of an Anglican missionary to the Tsimshian Indians. She lived in Los Angeles as a Mormon missionary assigned to work as a genealogist. Part I: The early years -- England, to 1876 -- American, the journey west, August 1876 -- British Columbia, 1876-1879 -- In school at Victoria, 1879-1881 -- Salt Lake City, 1882-1883 -- Henvey's Inlet, 1883-1885 -- My conversion, 1885 -- Part II: The middle years: pioneering in Utah and Canada -- Salt Lake City II, 1885-1889 -- Meadowville, 1889-1892 -- Marriage and motherhood, 1893-1899 -- Stirling, 1899-1906 -- Raymond, 1906-1917 -- Salt Lake City III, 1917-1923 -- Part III: The last years in California, the safe harbor -- California, 1923-1926 -- Genealogy, 1927 (or earlier) to 1937 -- Last words, 1934-1964.
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