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Old secrets and new discoveries : containing information of rare value

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20097
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1884
Author
J.S. Ogilvie & Co.
Publisher
New York : J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Co.
Call Number
05.5 Og4o
Author
J.S. Ogilvie & Co.
Publisher
New York : J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Co.
Published Date
1884
Physical Description
[283 pages]
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Guidebook
History
Abstract
Pertains to a collection of manners, customs and tips revealing old secrets and new discoveries. Written in a similar nature to a guidebook, the publication offers information pertaining to agriculture, making money, housewives, health and much more. Readers are offered insight into the societal expectation and norms of the late 19th century.
Contents
Preface
Old Secrets
Secrets for farmers
Preserving secrets
Manufacturing secrets
Secrets for the housewife
The secret of making money
Accession Number
3069 a
Call Number
05.5 Og4o
Collection
Archives Library
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Canada : its history, productions and natural resources

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1886
Author
prepared under the direction of John Carling ; [by George Johnson].
Publisher
Ottawa: Department of Agriculture Canada
Call Number
08.1 J62c
Author
prepared under the direction of John Carling ; [by George Johnson].
Publisher
Ottawa: Department of Agriculture Canada
Published Date
1886
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
History-Canada
History
Abstract
Published shortly after Canadian confederation of 1867, the Canadian Handbook was written to commemorate the new European understanding of Canada. The publication is comprehensive, and discusses but is not limited to the following topics, confederation, geology, trade, population, education, agriculture and minerals. The book serves to tell the story of a new united Canada which had not previously existed in the European psyche. Serving as both a handbook and condensed history, the book offers readers a glimpse into early Canada, as well as colonial settlement.
Contents
Climate (pg. 1-13)
Extent (pg. 13-16)
Historical Sketch (pg. 16-32)
Confederation (pg. 33-35)
Constitution (pg. 35-42)
Population (pg. 42-52)
Land (pg. 52-64)
Geological Survey (pg. 64-67)
Public Debt (pg. 67-69)
Revenue and Expenditure (pg. 70-73)
Trade and Commerce (pg. 70-73)
Transport service (pg. 81-101)
Auxiliaries to transport service (pg. 101-105)
Savings Banks (pg. 105-107)
Cities of Canada (pg. 108-113)
Insurance (pg. 114-115)
Newspapers (pg. 115-116)
Various statistics (pg. 116-118)
Manufactures (pg. 118-121)
Forests (pg. 121-127)
Education (pg. 126-127)
Agriculture (pg. 127-131)
Minerals (pg. 131-142)
Fisheries (pg. 143-145)
Shipping (pg. 146)
Prices in Canada (pg. 147)
Animal life and hunting grounds (pg. 148-160)
Notes
At head of title: Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886.
Authorship claimed by George Johnson in prefatory note.
Accession Number
2019.71
Call Number
08.1 J62c
Collection
Archives Library
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Historic sites of Alberta

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19870
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1963
Author
Dempsey, Hugh A.
Publisher
Edmonton : Alberta Government Travel Bureau
Edition
Sixth Edition
Call Number
08.2 D39h Pam
Author
Dempsey, Hugh A.
Responsibility
Hugh A. Dempsey
Edition
Sixth Edition
Publisher
Edmonton : Alberta Government Travel Bureau
Published Date
1963
Physical Description
64 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Alberta
History of Alberta
History
Fur trade
North-West Mounted Police
Missionaries
Riel rebellions
Abstract
Pertains to a series of notable and historically significant sites located across Alberta. The book is divided into nine categories pertaining to influential people and events, such as the Riel Rebellion and the North-West Mounted Police. Within each category, the author Hugh A. Dempsey, has included the names and locations of many historical sites in Alberta, be that a sign, a cairn or other form of historical remembrance.
Contents
Introduction (pg.3)
Indians (pg. 5)
The fur trade (pg. 12)
The missionaries (pg. 24)
American posts (pg. 29)
North-west Mounted Police (pg. 35)
Riel rebellion (pg. 39)
The pioneers (pg. 43)
Historic events (pg. 50)
Transportation (pg. 57)
Index (pg. 61)
Map (pg. 63)
Accession Number
2017.8683
Call Number
08.2 D39h Pam
Collection
Archives Library
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The Alps and alpinism

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1968
Author
Lukan, Karl
Publisher
London, Thames & Hudson
Call Number
01.2 L96t
Author
Lukan, Karl
Responsibility
Karl Lukan (editor)
Hugh Merrick (translator)
Christian Bonington (introduction)
Publisher
London, Thames & Hudson
Published Date
1968
Physical Description
200 pages illustrations (12 color), facsimiles, portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineering
Alps, Austrian
Alps, Bavarian
Alps, French
Alps, Italian
Mountains
History
Abstract
Pertains to the history of mountaineering the Alps
Contents
Foreward
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Life in the Alps
Climbers in the Alps
The Development of Skiing
Sport Among the Rapids
Building in the Alps
Artists and the Alps
Mountain Photography and Films
Notes
Originally published as Alpinismus in Bildern. Vienna, Schroll, 1967.
Accession Number
AC637
Call Number
01.2 L96t
Collection
Archives Library
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A frontier guide to the Dewdney Trail, Rock Creek to Salmo

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1969
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : Frontier Publishing Ltd.
Edition
Frontier Book No. 20
Call Number
08.1 F92a
Edition
Frontier Book No. 20
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : Frontier Publishing Ltd.
Published Date
1969
Physical Description
48 pages illustrations 21 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Travel
History
History-Canada
Abstract
"In the early days of British Columbia, the land lying along the American border from Rock Creek to Salmo was almost forgotten territory. In the beginning, the fur trade followed the lines of least resistance and these led southward by valley and river to United States soil. With the discovery of gold, copper and silver in the Boundary country, a subtle struggle between American and Canadian influence developed - each striving to draw a trade from the area. Over the years, the history of the region has been woven around the struggle between the powerful American magnet of roads and railroads to draw Boundary country into its orbit and the Canadian efforts to divert this traffic into an east-west pattern. The two major weapons in the hands of the Canadians were the Dewdney Trail of 1865 and the Kettle Valley Railroad. This, our eight Frontier Guide, is the attempt to portray the development of the Boundary country in relation to the roles played by the Dewdney Trail and the fabulous Kettle Valley Line."
Notes
Abstract taken directly from publication
Accession Number
3069 a
Call Number
08.1 F92a
Collection
Archives Library
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A frontier guide to the Dewdney Trail : Hope to Rock Creek

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20166
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1969?
Publisher
Calgary, Alta. : Frontier Publishing
Edition
Frontier Book No. 19
Call Number
08.2 F92a
Edition
Frontier Book No. 19
Publisher
Calgary, Alta. : Frontier Publishing
Published Date
1969?
Physical Description
56 pages.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Travel
History
History of Alberta
Abstract
"Highway No.3 is a ribbon of concrete that winds through some of the most dramatic scenery in Western Canada. At times it courses between valley walls lush with vegetation and history, adn at others it climbs mountain sides to meander gracefully over the top of the world. It was originally called the Dewdney Trail and it ran from Hope, through Rock Creek and on to Wild Horse Camp, 6 miles northeast of Cranbrook. Today, with a few variations of route, it follows the old trail and has become in every sense of the word the New Dewdney Trail. In this, our seventh Frontier Guide, we are attempting to trace the story adn the history of both the old trail and the new , from Hope to Rock Creek. In companion volumes, we hope to complete the trail from Rock Creek to Salmo adn from Salmo to Wild Horse."
Notes
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Accession Number
3069 a
Call Number
08.2 F92a
Collection
Archives Library
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Ed and Dorothy : Rocky Mountain romance

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Storry, Lea
Carleton, Brian
Carleton, Mike
Carleton, Terry
Publisher
Alberta : Family Lines Publishing
Call Number
08.3 F21e
  1 website  
Author
Storry, Lea
Carleton, Brian
Carleton, Mike
Carleton, Terry
Responsibility
Lea Storry
Brian Carleton
Mike Carleton
Terry Carleton
Publisher
Alberta : Family Lines Publishing
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
307 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
History
History of Alberta
Biography
Wardens
Banff
Banff (residents)
Abstract
The book is a testament to three sons’ love for their parents, Ed and Dorothy. Ed and Dorothy were kind and caring people and raised their family with those values. This book is also a testament to a family’s love of community, the community of Banff National Park.I hope when you read this book, you’ll be immersed in a bygone era that includes the Second World, to the backcountry of Canada’s oldest national park. I hope you will see a way of life that can never be recreated in a place that is ever-changing but will always be home to Ed and Dorothy. (Edited down from Our Family Lines website)
Contents
Foreward
Introduction
Chapter One: Edmond Clarence Carleton
Chapter Two: Calgary Highlanders
Chapter Three: Dorothy Eileen (nee Sweetzer) Fowler
Chapter Four: Exercising War
Chapter Five: Looking Towards the Future
Chapter Six: Mr. and Mrs. Ed Carleton
Chapter Seven: "Home" in Banff
Chapter Eight: This is backcountry living
Chapter Nine: Nature reels
Chapter Ten: Tragedies and changes
Chapter Eleven: A time capsule, royalty and lots of wildlife
Chapter Twelve: A year in the life of a warden and his family
Chapter Thirteen: Conservation and concerns
Chapter Fourteen: Making new memories while remembering the old
Chapter Fifteen: Life moves on
Endnotes
Acknowledgements
Sources
ISBN
9780991707522
Accession Number
2021.06
Call Number
08.3 F21e
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
Websites
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Howdy, I'm John Ware : and this is the story of my cowboy life

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25246
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Clough, Ayesha
Rookwood, Hugh
Publisher
Carstairs, Alberta, Canada : Red Barn Books
Call Number
08.1 C62h
  1 website  
Author
Clough, Ayesha
Rookwood, Hugh
Responsibility
Ayesha Clough (author)
Hugh Rookwood (illustrator)
Publisher
Carstairs, Alberta, Canada : Red Barn Books
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
39 pages : chiefly colour illustrations, colour maps, portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
History
History-Canada
Canada
Racism
Cowboys
Ranching
Horses
Biography
Abstract
Howdy, I’m John Ware is a children's book about Canada's legendary Black cowboy. The story, ideal for ages 6-12, brings the real-life legend to a new generation of kids. Despite experiencing enslavement, war and discrimination, this gifted horseman blazed a trail of kindness, becoming one of Alberta’s most loved and respected pioneer ranchers. (From publisher's website)
ISBN
9781999108786
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
08.1 C62h
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
Websites
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Raven's witness : the Alaska life of Richard K. Nelson

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Lentfer, Hank
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
Call Number
08 L46r
  1 website  
Author
Lentfer, Hank
Responsibility
Hank Lentfer
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
251 pages : illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
History
History-United States
Alaska
Biography
First Nations
Inuit
Abstract
Before his death in 2019, cultural anthropologist, author, and radio producer Richard K. Nelson's work focused primarily on the indigenous cultures of Alaska and, more generally, on the relationships between people and nature. Nelson lived for extended periods in Athabaskan and Alaskan Eskimo villages, experiences which inspired his earliest written works, including "Hunters of the Northern Ice." In "Raven's Witness," Lentfer tells Nelson's story--from his midwestern childhood to his first experiences with Native culture in Alaska through his own lifelong passion for the land where he so belonged (From publisher's website)
Contents
Foreword / Barry Lopez -- Prologue: Solid Ground -- Part I: Niglik -- Part II: Making Prayers -- Part III: Island Years -- Part IV: True Wealth -- Afterword: Wings
Notes
2020 Banff Mountain Book Award Winner - Grand Prize
2020 Banff Mountain Book Award Winner - Mountain Literature
ISBN
9781680513073
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
08 L46r
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
Websites
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Indigenous identity formation in post-secondary institutions : I found myself in the most unlikely place

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25266
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Barnes, Barbara G.
Voyageur, Cora J.
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : Brush Education Inc.
Call Number
07.2 B26i
  1 website  
Author
Barnes, Barbara G.
Voyageur, Cora J.
Responsibility
Barbara G. Barnes
Cora J. Voyageur
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : Brush Education Inc.
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
132 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Anthropology
First Nations
History
Abstract
This book presents a study conducted between 2005 and 2010 of 60 self-declared Indigenous university students from western Canada. The study explored Indigenous identity formation among these students through these central research questions:
Do conventional definitions of identity, and conventional identity formation theories, offer ways to understand the identity of these Indigenous students?
What role, if any, does postsecondary education play in the formation and/or confirmation of the identity of Indigenous students as Indigenous individuals? The study is unique for two reasons. First, little scholarly attention has been paid to Indigenous individuals’ sense of identity. While the literature and research on identity is diverse, it mostly focuses on Eurocentric definitions of identity. Second, this study emphasizes Indigenous identity formation in postsecondary institutions. This book moves beyond a simple understanding of Indigenous students’ concept of identity and delves into determining the role a university education can play in the development of an Indigenous individual’s identity (from publisher's website)
Contents
Preface and dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Find the self: a history of defining Indigenous identity in Canada
Conventional and Indigenous concepts of identity
A history of Indigenous education in Canada
Who were the participants?
Identity and Blumer's symbolic interactionism: definitions and participant responses
Identity and Mihesuah's Native identity development theory: definition and participant responses
The university experience
Building on Mihesuah: a Canadian Indigenous identity formation model
References
About the authors
ISBN
9781550598544
Accession Number
P2020.08
Call Number
07.2 B26i
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
Websites
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Picturing indians : native Americans in film, 1941-1960

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25516
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Black, Liza
Publisher
Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska
Call Number
07.2 B57p
Author
Black, Liza
Publisher
Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
xxi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Film making
History
Colonialism
Abstract
Liza Black critically examines the inner workings of post-World War II American films and production studios, which cast American Indian extras and actors as Native people, forcing them to come face-to-face with mainstream representations of "Indianness." -- From by publisher
Contents
"Just Like a Snake You'll Be Crawling in Your Own Shit": American Indians and White Narcissism ; "Indians Agree to Perform and Act as Directed": Urban Indian (and Non-Indian) Actors ; "Not Desired by You for Photographing": The Labor of American Indian (and Non-Indian) Extras ; "White May Be More Than Skin Deep": Whites in Redface ; "A Bit Thick": The Transformation of Indians into Movie Indians ; "Dig Up a Good Indian Historian": The Search for Authenticity
ISBN
9780803296800
Accession Number
P2022.02
Call Number
07.2 B57p
Collection
Archives Library
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Brotherhood to nationhood : George Manuel and the making of the modern indian movement

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25528
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
McFarlane, Peter and Manuel, Doreen
Publisher
Toronto : Between the Lines
Call Number
07.2 M16a
Author
McFarlane, Peter and Manuel, Doreen
Publisher
Toronto : Between the Lines
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
xxvi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
History
History-Canada
Colonialism
Politics
Abstract
George Manuel was the strategist and visionary behind the modern Indigenous movement in Canada. A three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, he laid the groundwork for what would become the Assembly of First Nations and was the founding president of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. Authors Peter McFarlane and Doreen Manuel follow him on a riveting journey from his childhood on a Shuswap reserve through three decades of fierce and dedicated activism. In these pages, an all-new foreword by celebrated Mi'kmaq lawyer and activist Pam Palmater is joined by an afterword from Manuel's granddaughter, land defender Kanahus Manuel. This edition features new photos and previously untold stories of the pivotal roles that the women of the Manuel family played--and continue to play--in the battle for Indigenous rights.
ISBN
9781771135108
Accession Number
P2021.02
Call Number
07.2 M16a
Collection
Archives Library
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Hudson's Bay Company : Edmonton House journals, including the Peigan Post, 1826-1834

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Publisher
Calgary, A.B. : Historical Society of Alberta
Call Number
08.2 B51h
Responsibility
Edited with an Introduction and Commentaries by Ted Binnema and Gerhard J. Ens
Publisher
Calgary, A.B. : Historical Society of Alberta
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
562 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Hudson's Bay Company : Edmonton House Journals
Subjects
Hudson's Bay Company
History
Fur trade
Canada - Western Region
Indigenous
Abstract
As Edmonton House entered its fourth decade, its future as one of the most profitable Hudson's Bay Company posts seeme secure, but were its best days behind it? In the late 1820s, John Rowand, the imposing figure in charge of the fort, struggled to adapt to the rapidly changing circumstances on the northwestern plains. American traders operating from the Missouri River began to draw off much of the trade of the Plains people, even as the relations among and within Plains nations grew ever more acrimonious. Closer to home, and much to Rowand's frustration, Metis families grew increasingly assertive and independent. Rowand could not find peace even within the fort palisades. Company servants chafed under the heavy hand of an increasingly irascible Rowand. The Edmonton House Journals published here offer a fascinating glimpse at the day-to-day life at one of the HBC's most important trading centres. Peigan Post, 1833-1834 John Rowand only reluctantly re-established an HBC presence on the southern plains of Rupert's Land in 1832. Having abandoned Chesterfield House in 1805, and having experienced much frustration with the Bow River Expedition in 1822-1823, the HBC established Peigan Post, on the Bow River, upstream from present-day Calgary in a desperate bid to regain the lucrative trade of the Peigan. The Peigan Post journals of 1833-1834 readily reveal the dangers and risks of trading at the location. -- Fom back cover
Contents
Edmonton House Post Journals, 1826-34 ; Peigan Post, 1833-34
ISBN
9781777228507
Accession Number
P2022.08
Call Number
08.2 B51h
Collection
Archives Library
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Canada's legal pasts : looking forward, looking back

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25706
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
Call Number
08.1 C15c
Responsibility
Edited by Lyndsay Campbell, Ted McCoy, and Me´lanie Me´thot
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
x, 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
History
Law
Human rights
Canada
Research
Abstract
Canada's Legal Pasts presents new essays on a range of topics and episodes in Canadian legal history, provides an introduction to legal methodologies, shows researchers new to the field how to locate and use a variety of sources, and includes a combined bibliography arranged to demonstrate best practices in gathering and listing primary sources. It is an essential welcome for scholars who wish to learn about Canada's legal pasts--and why we study them. Telling new stories--about a fishing vessel that became the subject of an extraordinarily long diplomatic dispute, young Northwest Mounted Police constables subject to an odd mixture of police discipline and criminal procedure, and more--this book presents the vibrant evolution of Canada's legal tradition. Explorations of primary sources, including provincial archive records that suggest how Quebec courts have been used in interfamilial conflict, newspaper records that disclose the details of bigamy cases, and penitentiary records that reveal the details of the lives and legal entanglements of Canada's most marginalized people, show the many different ways of researching and understanding legal history. This is Canadian legal history as you've never seen it before. Canada's Legal Pasts dives into new topics in Canada's fascinating history and presents practical approaches to legal scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars in collection essential for researchers at all levels. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Foreword : a student's take on Canada's legal pasts / Nick Austin -- Introduction : Canada's legal pasts : looking forward, looking back / Ted McCoy, Lyndsay Campbell, and Me´lanie Me´thot -- Family defamation in the Quebec Civil courts : the view from the archives / Eric H. Reiter -- Writing penitentiary history / Ted McCoy -- Analyzing bigamy cases without going to the archives : it is possible / Me´lanie Me´thot -- Trial pamphlets and newspaper accounts / Lyndsay Campbell -- The last voyage of the Frederick Gerring, Jr. / Christopher Shorey -- The textbook edition of James Kent's Commentaries used in Canada v. Gerring / Angela Fernandez -- Empire's law : archives and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council / Catharine MacMillan -- Practising law in the "lawyerless" colony of New France / Alexandra Havrylyshyn -- Poursuivre son mari en justice: femmes marie´es et coutume de Paris devant la Cour du banc du roi de Montre´al (1795-1830) / Jean-Philippe Garneau -- Getting their man : the NWMP as accused in the territorial criminal court in the Canadian North-West, 1876-1903 / Shelley A.M. Gavigan -- Sex discrimination in Canadian law : from equal citizenship to human rights law / Dominique Cle´ment -- Legal-historical writing for the Canadian Prairies : past, present, future / Louis A. Knafla.
ISBN
9781773851167
Accession Number
P2023.07
Call Number
08.1 C15c
Collection
Archives Library
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Queen of the maple leaf : beauty contests and settler femininity

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25718
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Gentile, Patrizia
Publisher
Vancouver, BC ; Toronto : UBC Press
Call Number
08.1 G29q
Author
Gentile, Patrizia
Publisher
Vancouver, BC ; Toronto : UBC Press
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
x, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Feminism
Women
History
Beauty contests
Canada
Abstract
As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty became a business. But beauty pageants were more than just frivolous spectacles. Queen of the Maple Leaf deftly uncovers how colonial power operated within the pageant circuit. In this astute critical investigation, Patrizia Gentile examines the interplay between local or community-based pageants and more prestigious provincial or national ones. Contests such as Miss War Worker, Miss Black Ontario, and Miss Civil Service often functioned as stepping stones to competitions such as Miss Canada. At all levels, pageants exemplified codes of femininity, class, sexuality, and race that shaped the narratives of the settler nation. A union-organized pageant such as Queen of the Dressmakers, for example, might uplift working-class women but immigrant women need not apply. Not unlike sports leagues linked from minor to major, pageants from local to national formed a network that entrenched white settler nationalism in the context of the beauty industrial complex. Queen of the Maple Leaf demonstrates that these contests are designed to connect female bodies to white, middle-class, respectable femininity and wholesomeness, and that their longevity lies squarely in their capacity to reassert the white heteropatriarchy at the heart of settler societies. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Beauty Queens and (White) Settler Nationalism -- Miss Canada and Gendering Whiteness -- Labour of Beauty -- Contesting Indigenous, Immigrant, and Black Bodies -- Miss Canada, Commercialization, and Settler Anxiety.
ISBN
9780774864121
Accession Number
P2023.11
Call Number
08.1 G29q
Collection
Archives Library
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The politics of the canoe

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25511
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
Call Number
07.2 E4t
Responsibility
Edited by Bruce Erickson and Sarah Wylie Krotz
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
xi, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Canoeing
Politics
History
History-Canada
Water
Abstract
Popularly thought of as a recreational vehicle and one of the key ingredients of an ideal wilderness getaway, the canoe is also a political vessel. A potent symbol and practice of Indigenous cultures and traditions, the canoe has also been adopted to assert conservation ideals, feminist empowerment, citizenship practices, and multicultural goals. Documenting many of these various uses, this book asserts that the canoe is not merely a matter of leisure and pleasure; it is folded into many facets of our political life. Taking a critical stance on the canoe, The Politics of the Canoe expands and enlarges the stories that we tell about the canoe's relationship to, for example, colonialism, nationalism, environmentalism, and resource politics. To think about the canoe as a political vessel is to recognize how intertwined canoes are in the public life, governance, authority, social conditions, and ideologies of particular cultures, nations, and states. Almost everywhere we turn, and any way we look at it, the canoe both affects and is affected by complex political and cultural histories. Across Canada and the U.S., canoeing cultures have been born of activism and resistance as much as of adherence to the mythologies of wilderness and nation building. The essays in this volume show that canoes can enhance how we engage with and interpret not only our physical environments, but also our histories and present-day societies. -- From back cover
Contents
The Politics of the Canoe / Bruce Erickson and Sarah Wylie Krotz ; Tribal Canoe Journeys and Indigenous Cultural Resurgence: A Story from the Heiltsuk Nation / Frank Brown, Hillary Beattie, Vina Brown, and Ian Mauro ; This is What Makes Us Strong: Canoe Revitalization, Reciprocal Heritage, and the Chinnok Indian Nation / Rachel L. Cushman, Jon D. Daehnke, and Tony A. Johnson ; Whaehdoo Eto K'e / John B. Zoe and Jessica Dunkin ; Building Canoe, Knowledge, and Relationships ; Model Canoes, Territorial Histories, and Linguistic Resurgence: Decolonizing the Tappan Adney Archives / Chris Ling Chapman ; Ginawaydaganuc: The Birchbark Canoe in Algonquin Community Resurgence and Reconciliation / Chuck Commanda, Larry McDermott, and Sarah Nelson ; Beyond Birchbark: How Lahontan's Images of Unfamiliar Canores Confirm His Remarkable Western Expedition of 1688 / Peter H. Wood ; Monumental Trip: Don Starkell's Canoe Voyage from Winnipeg to the Mouth of the Amazon / Albert Braz ; The Dam That Wasn't: How the Canoe Became Political on the Petawa River / Cameron Baldassarra ; Unpacking and Repacking the Canoe: Canoe as Research Vessel / Danielle Gendron
ISBN
9780887559099
Accession Number
P2022.03
Call Number
07.2 E4t
Collection
Archives Library
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Ancestors : indigenous peoples of Western Canada in historic photographs

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25527
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
Call Number
07.2 C24a
07.2 C24a copy 2
Responsibility
Edited by Sarah Carter and Inez Lightning
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
x, 188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Photography
History
History of Alberta
Western Canada
Colonialism
Abstract
This exhibition catalogue introduces historic photographs of Indigenous peoples of Western Canada from a collection housed at the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections. The publication focuses on the ancestors represented in the collection and how their images continue to generate stories and meanings in the present. The selected photographs contribute to a richer, deeper understanding of the past. There is strength, character, persistence, determination, artwork, humour, dance, celebration, and so much more in the photographs. Some serve as records of cherished landscapes that may have been altered. Others provide links to ancestors: revered leaders, soldiers, healers, thinkers, and orators. The curators hope that the process of identifying the people in these photographs, only begun here, will continue. (Provided by Publisher)
Contents
Foreword / Chief Willie Littlechild ; The nature of the collection and its challenges ; Western Canada in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries ; The aims of the curators ; The Exhibition
ISBN
9781551954547
Accession Number
P2022.05
Call Number
07.2 C24a
07.2 C24a copy 2
Collection
Archives Library
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Royally wronged : the Royal Society of Canada and Indigenous Peoples

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25570
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Call Number
08.1 B12r
Responsibility
Edited by Constance Backhouse, Cynthia E. Milton, Margaret Kovach, and Adele Perry
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
xvii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Royal Society of Canada
Indigenous
Canada
History
Colonialism
Abstract
The Royal Society of Canada's mandate is to elect to its membership scholars in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences, lending its seal of excellence to those who advance artistic and intellectual knowledge in Canada. Duncan Campbell Scott, one of the architects of the Indian residential school system in Canada, served as the society's president and dominated its activities; many other members - historically overwhelmingly white men - helped shape knowledge systems rooted in colonialism that have proven catastrophic for Indigenous communities. Written primarily by current Royal Society of Canada members, these essays explore the historical contribution of the RSC and of Canadian scholars to the production of ideas and policies that shored up white settler privilege, underpinning the disastrous interaction between Indigenous peoples and white settlers. Historical essays focus on the period from the RSC's founding in 1882 to the mid-twentiethcentury; later chapters bring the discussion to the present, documenting the first steps taken to change damaging patterns and challenging the society and Canadian scholars to make substantial strides toward a better future. The highly educated in Canadian society were not just bystanders: they deployed their knowledge and skills to abet colonialism. Royally Wronged dives deep into the RSC's history to learn why academia has more often been an aid to colonialism than a force against it, posing difficult questions about what is required to move meaningfully toward reconciliation.
Contents
Foreword / Cindy Blackstock ; Introduction: the Royal Society of Canada and the marginalization of Indigenous knowledge / Constance Backhouse and Cynthia E. Milton ; Rather of promise than of performance: tracing networks of knowledge and power through the Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 1882-1922 / Ian Wereley ; Duncan Campbell Scott and the Royal Society of Canada: the legitimation of knowledge / Constance Backhouse ; "Perhaps the white man's God has willed it so": reconsidering the "Indian" poems of Pauline Johnson and Duncan Campbell Scott / Carole Gerson ; "Sooner or later they will be given the privelage [sic] asked for": Duncan Campbell Scott and the dispossession of Shoal Lake 40, 1913-14 / Adele Perry ; Three fellows in Mi'kma'ki: the power of the avocational / John G. Reid ; "Not a little disappointment": forging postcolonial academies from emulation and exclusion / Cynthia E. Milton ; Nostra culpa? Reflections on "The Indian in Canadian Historical Writing" / James W. St G. Walker ; Forensic anthropology and archaeology as tools for reconciliation in investigations into unmarked graves at Indian residential schools / Katherine L. Nichols, Eldon Yellowhorn, Deanna Reder, Emily Holland, Dongya Yang, John Albanese, Darian Kennedy, Elton Taylor, and Hugo F.V. Cardoso ; Confronting "Cognitive Imperialism": what reconstituting a contracts law school course is teaching me about law / Jane Bailey ; Murder they wrote: unknown knowns and Windsor Law's statement regarding R. v. Stanley / Reem Bahdi ; History in the public interest: teaching decolonization through the RSC Archive / Jennifer Evans, Meagan Breault, Ellis Buschek, Brittany Long, Sabrina Schoch, and David Siebert ; Cause and effect: the invisible barriers of the Royal Society of Canada / Joanna R. Quinn ; Memorandum to the Royal Society of Canada (2019) / Marie Battiste and James Sákéj Youngblood Henderson, endorsed / John Borrows, Margaret Kovach, Kiera Ladner, Vianne Timmons, and Jacqueline Ottmann ; Golden Eagle Rising: a conversation on Indigenous knowledge and the Royal Society of Canada / Shain Jackson and Cynthia E. Milton ; Afterword: closing circle words / Margaret Kovach
ISBN
9780228009115
Accession Number
P2022.13
Call Number
08.1 B12r
Collection
Archives Library
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Object lives and global histories in northern North America : material culture in motion, c. 1780-1980

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25572
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Call Number
07.2 L54o
Responsibility
Edited by Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
x, [x], 450 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Museum
Museum Studies
Material culture
North America
Object
History
Indigenous
Indigenous Art
Abstract
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories. Red River coats, prints of colonial places and peoples, Indigenous-made dolls, and an Englishwoman's collection provide case studies of art and material culture that correct and give nuance to global and imperial histories. The result of a collaborative research process involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors, this book looks closely at the circumstances of making, use, and circulation of these objects: things that supported and defined both Indigenous resistance and colonial and imperial purposes. Contributors re-envision the histories of northern North America by focusing on the lives of things flowing to and from this vast region between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, showing how material culture is a critical link that tied this diverse landscape to the wider world. An original perspective on the history of northern North American peoples grounded in things, Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America provides a key analytical and methodological lens that exposes the complexity of cultural encounters and connections between local and global communities.-- Provided by publisher
Contents
Acknowledgments ; Maps ; Introduction / Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw ; 1. Object lives: innovating methodology / Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw ; Sidebar 1. Management and methodology / Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw ; 2. Crossing worlds: hide coats, relationships, and identity in Rupert's Land and Britain / Laura Peers ; 3. "A typical Canadian outfit": the Red River coat / Cynthia Cooper ; Sidebar 2. The Huron-Wendat Capot / Cynthia Cooper ; Sidebar 3. The Red River coat and its commercial promotion / Cynthia Cooper ; 4. Colonizing winter: tobogganing, toboggan suits, and imperial agendas in the Northlands, c. 1800-1900 / Beverly Lemire ; Sidebar 4. Gifts of empire / Beverly Lemire ; 5. Peter Rindisbacher and the imagined North: circulations, realities, and representations / Julie-Ann Mercer ; 6. The wampum and the print: objects tied to Nicolas Vincent Tsawenhohi's London visit, 1824-1825 / Jonathan Lainey and Anne Whitelaw ; Sidebar 5. Active imperial networks / Jonathan Lainey and Anne Whitelaw ; 7. A brief history of the "Eskimo sweater" / Laurie K. Bertram ; 8. Clare Sheridan: British writer, sculptor, and collector in Blackfoot country, 1937 / Sarah Carter ; 9. Dolls, women's art, and Indigenous networks in the borderlands of northern North America, 1885-1945 / Katie Pollock ; 10. Dew claw bags, Indigenous women, and material culture in history and practice / Judy Half and Beverly Lemire ; 11. Inscribing the North West: hide jackets and colonial surveyors / Susan Berry ; Sidebar 6. Jackets in circulation / Susan Berry ; 12. From the sanatorium to the museum and beyond: the circulation of art and craft made by Indigenous patients at tuberculosis hospitals / Sara Komarnisky ; Figures ; Bibliography ; Contributors ; Index.
ISBN
9780228003991
Accession Number
P2022.13
Call Number
07.2 L54o
Collection
Archives Library
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Carrying the burden of peace : reimagining Indigenous masculinities through story

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25728
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
McKegney, Sam
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
Call Number
07.2 M19c
Author
McKegney, Sam
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
xxxiii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Customs
Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Traditions
Masculinity
Canada
History
Abstract
Through rigorous engagement with Indigenous literary art, Carrying the Burden of Peace highlights the decolonial potential of Indigenous masculinities. Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities be an honour song--one that celebrates rather than pathologizes; one that seeks diversity and strength; one that overturns heteropatriarchy without centering settler colonialism? Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities even be creative, inclusive, erotic? Carrying the Burden of Peace answers affirmatively. Countering the perception that masculinity has been so contaminated as to be irredeemable, the book explores Indigenous literary art for understandings of masculinity that exceed the impoverished inheritance of colonialism. Carrying the Burden of Peace weaves together stories of Indigenous life, love, eroticism, pain, and joy to map the contours of diverse, empowered, and non-dominant Indigenous masculinities. It is from here that a more balanced world may be pursued. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Indigenous masculinities and story -- Shame and deterritorialization -- Journeying back to the body -- De(f/v)iant generosity: gender and the gift -- Masculinity and kinship -- Naked and dreaming forward: a conclusion.
ISBN
9780889777934
Accession Number
P2023.15
Call Number
07.2 M19c
Collection
Archives Library
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