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ONCE, A LONG TIME AGO, I spent a winter researching for my PhD at the University of British Columbia. My research entailed comparing the experiences of women living on the frontiers of Australia and Canada, and my work was to read their personal accounts (letters, journals, memoirs) and ask how they made a home in an often foreign, hostile place.
Each morning, I would