Author: Margaret Whitehead. Published by SONO NIS PRESS, Victoria, BC., 1981, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada by Morriss Printing Company, Victoria, BC. Very Good Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with minor cover wear and age-yellowed pages. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 6 x 9 inch, 142 pages including Index.
THE CARIBOO MISSION, A History of the Oblates, by Margaret Whitehead, and the St. Joseph's Mission, has a history as old as the earliest days of white settlement in the Cariboo, and this book tells that history.
The historical site where the St. Joseph's Mission in the San Jose Valley, about 12 miles southwest of Williams Lake, British Columbia, served for decades as the Cariboo's Indian Residential School.Β
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: As a UVic history professor, Margaret Whitehead edited and provided a lengthy introduction to They Call Me Father: Memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola, a Corsican-born Oblate (Roman Catholic) missionary who worked in B.C. for 63 years. As well, following a volume on missionaries and Indians for Sound Heritage, she published The Cariboo Mission: A History of the Oblates.
