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Great Lone Land: The Life of R.B. Nevitt, The (43/52)


This is also part of this series: Scattering of Seeds, A (52)

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Subjects: Art, Canadian History, Immigration, Medicine, Native Studies

Grade Level: JrH-Adult
Producer: White Pine Pictures
Closed Captioned: No
Running Time: 30 mins
Country of Origin: Canada
Study Guide: No

Copyright Date: 2001
Available in French: Yes

Richard Nevitt fled Savannah Georgia at the age of 14 after being drafted by the Confederacy. Settling first in Quebec, he studied medicine then signed up as a doctor with the RCMP's famous “Great March West” of 1874. Dr. Nevitt's care of local natives won him their respect; and his many sketches created a valuable historical record of the peaceful settling of the West. Nevitt continued practising medicine in Toronto, helping found the Women's Medical College and delivering a baby a day for the rest of his life. In French: Le grand territoire isolé: La vie de Richard Barrington Nevitt