Forest, Lake, and Prairie
Author : John McDougall
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Alberta
ISBN :
Lost Harvests
Author : Sarah Carter
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773509993
Book Description
A history and bitter criticism of US farm price policies by an experienced commodity trader. He proposes a restoration of the family farm. His work is unsubstantiated by bibliographic citations. Agriculture on Plains Indian reserves is generally thought to have failed because the native peoples lacked either an interest in farming or an aptitude for it. Here, Carter reveals that reserve residents were anxious to farm and expended considerable effort on cultivation: government policies, more than anything else, acted to undermine their success. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Seen but Not Seen
Author : Donald B. Smith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1442622121
Book Description
Throughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth century, the majority of Canadians argued that European "civilization" must replace Indigenous culture. The ultimate objective was assimilation into the dominant society. Seen but Not Seen explores the history of Indigenous marginalization and why non-Indigenous Canadians failed to recognize Indigenous societies and cultures as worthy of respect. Approaching the issue biographically, Donald B. Smith presents the commentaries of sixteen influential Canadians – including John A. Macdonald, George Grant, and Emily Carr – who spoke extensively on Indigenous subjects. Supported by documentary records spanning over nearly two centuries, Seen but Not Seen covers fresh ground in the history of settler-Indigenous relations.
Images of the Plains
Author : Brian W. Blouet
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803208391
Book Description
Sixteen papers by foremost American, Canadian, and English historical geographers examine the sources of Imagery of the American and Canadian Great Plains, the processes of image formation, and the behavioral implications of various kinds of images. The papers deal with exploratory images of the Plains, resource evaluation in the prefrontier West, governmental appraisal of the western frontier, real and imagined climatic hazards, the desert and garden myths, and adaptations to reality.
Mavericks
Author : Aritha Van Herk
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 2010-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0143176951
Book Description
The fifth title in our provincial histories series, Mavericks is an idiosyncratic and episodic history of what is arguably Canada's most unconventional province. From mapmakers to ranchers, Stampede Wrestling to Stockwell Day, acclaimed writer Aritha van Herk brings the drama and combative beauty of this irascible province to stunning life. van Herk's portrait of her home province embraces all its extremes, from deadly and spectacular weather to dinosaur graveyards, and from oil gushers and geysers to barnstorming social reformers and political haymakers. Bronc-riders of boom and bust, Alberta's people are a beguiling mixture of opinionated extremists, hardy pioneers and gentle sinners. Alberta is a province that most Canadians simply don't understand, the province most Canadians love to hate. It is regarded as a land of reckless, redneck and ignorant individualists. But it is also the province where the Famous Five fought the landmark Person's Case, giving Canadian women the same status as men in the eyes of the law, a province that truly believes in free speech. Albertans tolerate in their midst people whose extreme views on any manner of subjects would make them outcasts elsewhere. And Albertans practice the creed of western neighbourliness, giving assiduously to charity and always lending a hand where help is needed. They are a tough, tender bunch, squinting into the wind of determined difference. If you're an Albertan, you'll recognize yourself and your home in this book. If you're not an Albertan, this book will be an education for you. Mavericks will open your eyes to the real Alberta, as she was and is.
The Literary History of Alberta Volume One
Author : George Melnyk
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 22,64 MB
Release : 1998-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780888642967
Book Description
Alberta's contradictory landscape has fired the imaginative energies of writers for centuries. The sweep of the plains, the thrust of the Rockies, and the long roll of the woodlands have left vivid impressions on all of Alberta's writers--both those who passed through Alberta in search of other horizons and those who made it their home. The Literary History of Alberta surveys writing in and about Alberta from prehistory to the middle of the twentieth century. It includes profiles of dozens of writers (from the earnestly intended to the truly gifted) and their texts (from the commercial to the arcane). It reminds us of long-forgotten names and faces, figures who quietly--or not so quietly--wrote the books that underpin Alberta's thriving literary culture today. Melnyk also discusses the institutions that have shaped Alberta's literary culture. The Literary History of Alberta is an essential text for any reader interested in the cultural history of western Canada, and a landmark achievement in Alberta's continuing literary history.
British Comment on the United States
Author : Ada Nisbet
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 2001-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520915824
Book Description
This bibliography of more than three thousand entries, often extensively annotated, lists books and pamphlets that illuminate evolving British views on the United States during a period of great change on both sides of the Atlantic. Subjects addressed in various decades include slavery and abolitionism, women's rights, the Civil War, organized labor, economic, cultural, and social behavior, political and religious movements, and the "American" character in general.
A Bibliography of Canadian Folklore in English
Author : Edith Fowke
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 1982-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1487597177
Book Description
This book is the only comprehensive bibliography of Canadian folklore in English. The 3877 different items are arranged by genres: folktales; folk music and dance; folk speech and naming; superstitions, popular beliefs, folk medicine, and the supernatural; folk life and customs; folk art and material culture; and within genres by ethnic groups: Anglophone and Celtic, Francophone, Indian and Inuit, and other cultural groups. The items include reference books, periodicals, articles, records, films, biographies of scholars and informants, and graduate theses. Each items is annotated through a coding that indicates whether it is academic or popular, its importance to the scholar, and whether it is suitable for young people. The introduction includes a brief survey of Canadian folklore studies, putting this work into academic and social perspective. The book covers all the important items and most minor items dealing with Canadian folklore published in English up to the end of 1979. It is concerned with legitimate Canadian folklore – whether transplanted from other countries and preserved here, or created here to reflect the culture of this country. It distinguishes between authentic folklore presented as collected and popular treatments in which the material has been rewritten by the authors. Intended primarily for scholars of folklore, international as well as Canadian, the book will also be of use to scholars in anthropology, cultural geography, oral history, and other branches of Canadian culture studies, as well as to librarians, teachers, and the general public.
Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953
Author : Ernest Boyce Ingles
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802048257
Book Description
The Prairie Provinces cover Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
The People who Own Themselves
Author : Heather Devine
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1552381153
Book Description
With a unique how-to appendix for Metis genealogical reconstruction, this book will be of interest to Metis wanting to research their own genealogy and to scholars engaged in the reconstruction of Metis ethnic identity. The search for a Metis identity and what constitutes that identity is a key issue facing many aboriginals of mixed ancestry today. This book reconstructs 250 years of the Desjarlais' family history across a substantial area of North America, from colonial Louisiana, the St. Louis, Missouri, region and the American Southwest to the Red River and central Alberta. In the course of tracing the Desjarlais family, social, economic and political factors influencing the development of various Aboriginal ethnic identities are discussed. With intriguing details about the Desjarlais family members, this book offers new, original insights into the 1885 Northwest Rebellion, focusing on kinship as a motivating factor in the outcome of events.
