Rand and the Micmacs

A memorial collection presents a biographical sketch and contemporary tributes to a nineteenth-century missionary who devoted his life to the Micmac people, assembling reports, diary excerpts, and correspondence about mission work. It reproduces his Micmac-language labors including a vocabulary, Bible translations and a Micmac rendering of John 3:16, alongside collected Micmac myths, the poem Dying Indian’s Dream, and Latin translations of psalms and hymns. The volume balances devotional and linguistic scholarship with candid accounts of pastoral successes, hardships, and appeals for renewed support of indigenous mission efforts.