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Will to Power

The Missionary Career of Father Morice

by (author) David Mulhall

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2011
Category
General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774843263
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $34.95

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Description

This study of British Columbia's most famous missionary, Father A.G. Morice, OMI, casts new lights on his motives and actions. Extraordinarily vain and egotistical, Morice was obsessed with gaining power and recognition as a missionary, explorer, and Indian expert. With his native intelligence and boundless energy and determination, he built a veritable kingdom for himself in northern B.C. However, his rebellious and erratic behaviour finally led to a conflict with his superiors, as David Mulhall points out in this fascinating account of a very atypical Oblate missionary.

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Contributor Notes

David Mulhall is a teacher in the history department of Dawson College in Westmount, Quebec.

Editorial Reviews

Well researched, finely written biography.

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