Sexual Assault and Disability: Saskatchewan, 1942
Author | Constance Backhouse |
Pages | 131-164 |
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SEXUAL ASSAULT AND
DISABILITY: Saskatchewan
B I T bor n in on the family homestead near
Torquay thirtyseven miles west of Estevan Saskatchewan t he fourth in
a family of seven children.Inherfathersillhealthforcedthefam
ily to give up the farm and move to Midale, midway between Estevan and
WeyburnTheyboughttheformerdentistshouseatMainStreetwhere
thefamilywouldresideintothenextgenerationBeatricesfatherworked
onneighbouringfarmswhenhishealthpermieduntilhisdeathin
Beatricesmotherfamousforhercookingearnedsomeincomebybaking
moundsofloavesforthemanybachelorswhohomesteadedinthearea
She also did domestic work in other Midale homes, and laboured in the
cookcarstomeetthevoraciousappetitesofthethreshingcrewsthattrav
elled from farm to farm for the annual harvests. Somehow, with the help of
the children, t he family eked out a living.
Midale, where Beatrice spent the early years of her childhood, was in the
southeast corner of Saskatchewan. It was a typical Prairie town, with three
grain elevators and fewer than two hundred inhabitants, where the farmers
tendedcaleandsowedunpredictablecropsofwheatoatsbarleyandrye
TherstwhitehomesteadersinMidalehadarrivedintakingupfarms
alongtheSooLineoftheCanadianPacicRailwaythatconnectedMoose
JawwithMinneapolisMinnesotaTheareawashardhitduringtheDepres
sionofthesandwithseveredroughtinThatyearthebesiegedru
ralmunicipalitydealtwithapplicationsforreliefinasevendayperiod
ThewinterofwasthecoldestonrecordOneyearlaterinJuly
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BerthaandHenryTisdaleBeatricesparentswithheroldersiblingsletoright
Leona, Mabel, and Howard
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Farmers at thresh ing time
From Plowshares to Pum pjacks: R. M. of Cymri: Macou, Mi dale, Halb rite(Midal e: R.M. of Cymr i Histor y Book Soci ety, 1984) at 6 08.
Fair time at Midale
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