Miss Confederation: The Diary of Mercy Anne Coles

✍ Scribed by McDonald, Anne

• Book ID: 109797080
• Publisher: Dundurn
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-EN
• Weight: 4 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781459739673

✦ Synopsis

History without the stiffness and polish time creates.
Canada's journey to Confederation kicked off with a bang — or rather, a circus, a civil war (the American one), a small fortune's worth of champagne, and a lot of making love — in the old-fashioned sense. Miss Confederation offers a rare look back, through a woman's eyes, at the men and events at the centre of this pivotal time in Canada's history.
Mercy Anne Coles, the daughter of PEI delegate George Coles, kept a diary of the social happenings and political manoeuvrings as they affected her and her desires. A unique historical document, her diary is now being published for the first time, offering a window into the events that led to Canada's creation, from a point of view that has long been neglected.