The McQueen Family Letters, 1866-1930

The McQueen Family Letters, 1866-1930, chronicle in often breath-taking detail the activities and relationships of a farming family rooted in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. Brought together from four separate archives located in British Columbia and Nova Scotia, the 1200 letters in this collection follow the fortunes of a highly mobile family as they adapted to the industrial age (five of six daughters and the only son taught school at some point in their lives) and speak to us today as remarkable documents of Canadian social history.