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1950s Canada : politics and public affairs
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Wiseman, Nelson
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 W75c
- Author
- Wiseman, Nelson
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Canada
- History
- 1950s
- Politics
- Public Affairs
- Abstract
- While the 1950s in Canada were years of social conformity, it was also a time of political, economic, and technological change. Against a background of growing prosperity, federal and provincial politics became increasingly competitive, intergovernmental relations became more contentious, and Canada's presence in the world expanded. The life expectancy of Canadians increased as the social pathologies of poverty, crime, and racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination were in retreat. 1950s Canada illuminates the fault lines around which Canadian politics and public affairs have revolved. Chronicling the themes and events of Canadian politics and public affairs during the 1950s, Nelson Wiseman reviews social, economic, and cultural developments during each year of the decade, focusing on developments in federal politics, intergovernmental relations, provincial affairs, and Canada's role in the world. The book examines Canada's subordinate relationship first with Britain and then the United States, the interplay between Quebec's distinct society and the rest of Canada, and the regional tensions between the inner Canada of Ontario and Quebec and the outer Canada of the Atlantic and Western provinces. Through this record of major events in the politics of the decade, 1950s Canada sheds light on the rapid altering of the fabric of Canadian life.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction: reflections on studying Canada of the 1950s -- 1950 -- 1951 -- 1952 -- 1953 -- 1954 -- 1955 -- 1956 -- 1957 -- 1958 -- 1959 -- Conclusion: politics and public affairs in the 1950s
- ISBN
- 9781487555450
- Accession Number
- P2023.10
- Call Number
- 08.1 W75c
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- Archives Library
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The American Western in Canadian literature
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Deshaye, Joel
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 D45t
- Author
- Deshaye, Joel
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- x, 414 pages ; 23 cm.
- Abstract
- The first historically broad and in-depth study of the Canadian Western, its relationship to the American genre, and its shifting place within Canada's national and regional literary traditions. The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the genre in curious ways. Canadian Westerns are almost always in conversation with their American cousins, influenced by their tropes and traditions, responding to their politics, and repurposing their structures to create a national literary tradition. The American Western in Canadian Literature examines over a century of the development of the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to evolving literary trends, and to regional, national, and international change. Beginning with Indigenous perspectives on the genre, it moves from early manifestations of the Western in Christian narratives of personal and national growth, and its controversial pulp-fictional popularity in the 1940s, to its postmodern and contemporary critiques, pushing the boundary of the Western to include Northerns, Northwesterns, and post-Westerns in literature, film, and wider cultural imagery. The American Western in Canadian Literature is more than a simple history. It uses genre theory to comment on historical perspectives on nation and region. It includes overviews of Indigenous and settler-colonial critiques of the Western, challenging persistent attitudes to Indigenous people and their traditional territories that are endemic to the genre. It illuminates the way that the Canadian Western enshrines, hagiographies, and ultimately desacralizes aspects of Canadian life, from car culture to extractive industries to assumptions about a Canadian moral high ground. This is a comprehensive, highly readable, and fascinating study of an underexamined genre.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction. Signposts and scales -- Scaling and spacing the genre transnationalism, nationalism, and regionalism -- Tom King's John Wayne Indigenous perspectives on the Western -- Northwestern Cross Christianity and Transnationalism in early Canadian westerns -- From law to outlaw -- Second World War, westerns, and the '40s pulps -- CanLit's postmodern westerns ghosts and the cowgirl riding off into the sunrise -- Degeneration through violence contemporary historical westerns and post-human horsemen -- Conclusion mining the western in the Twenty-First Century.
- ISBN
- 9781773852676
- Accession Number
- P2023.07
- Call Number
- 08.1 D45t
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- 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
- 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
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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
- Publisher
- Toronto : Between the Lines
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- xxvi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- 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
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- Archives Library
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Camp 4 : recollections of a Yosemite rockclimber
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25739
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Roper, Steve
- Publisher
- Seattle : Mountaineers
- Call Number
- 02.8 R68c
- Author
- Roper, Steve
- Publisher
- Seattle : Mountaineers
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 255 pages : illustrations, color map ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- In the 1960s, California's Yosemite Valley was the center of the rock climbing universe. Young nonconformists -- many of them the finest rock climbers in the world -- channeled their energy toward the largely untouched walls and cracks. Soon climbers from around the globe were coming to Camp 4 -- gathering spot for the creators of the "Golden Age" of Yosemite climbing -- to see whgat all the fuss is about. -- From the back cover
- Notes
- Winner of the 1994 Banff Mountain Book Festival for Mountain Literature
- ISBN
- 9780898863819
- Accession Number
- P2023.19
- Call Number
- 02.8 R68c
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- 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
- 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
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Canadian cinema in the new millennium
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 06.3 C23c
- Responsibility
- Edited by Lee Carruthers and Charles Tepperman
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xiv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Film making
- Films
- Motion picture
- Canada
- History
- Abstract
- At the turn of the millennium Canadian cinema appeared to have reached an apex of aesthetic and commercial transformation. Domestic filmmaking has since declined in visibility: the sense of celebrity once associated with independent directors has diminished, projects garner less critical attention, and concepts that made late-twentieth-century Canadian film legible have been reconsidered or displaced. Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium examines this dramatic transformation and revitalizes our engagement with Canadian cinema in the contemporary moment, presenting focused case studies of films and filmmakers and contextual studies of Canadian film policy, labour, and film festivals. Contributors trace key developments since 2000, including the renouveau or Quebec New Wave, Indigenous filmmaking, i-docs, and diasporic experimental filmmaking. Reflecting the way film in Canada mediates multiple cultures, forging new affinities among anglophone, francophone, and Indigenous-language examples, this book engages familiar figures, such as Denis Villeneuve, Xavier Dolan, Sarah Polley, and Guy Maddin, in the same breath as small-budget independent films, documentaries, and experimental works that have emerged in the Canadian scene. Fueled by close attention to the films themselves and a desire to develop new scholarly approaches, Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium models a renewed commitment to keeping a vibrant conversation about Canadian cinema alive.-Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction: Towards a renewed critical optics for contemporary Canadian cinema -- PART ONE: FEATURE FILMS AND FILMMAKERS -- 1 Speaking across borders: Xavier Dolan and the transnationalism of contemporary auteur cinema in Quebec / Robinson, Ian -- 2 An equivocal auteur: gauging style and substance in the films of Denis Villeneuve / Carruthers, Ian -- 3 A "momentary melancholy": female desire and the promise of happiness in the cinema of Sarah Polley / Horeck, Tanya -- 4 Indigenous women's cinema in Quebec: the works and words of Mohawk filmmaker Sonia Bonspille Boileau / Bertrand, Karine -- 5 Le cine´ma a` l'estomac: Denis Co^te´ and the new wave of Quebec cinema (2004-19) / Sirois-Trahan, Jean-Pierre -- 6 Fluid privilege: reading "Canadian" water in wet bum (2014) and sleeping giant (2015) / Vanderburgh, Jennifer -- 7 Toronto's new diy filmmakers / Davidson, David -- 8 Northern frights: Canadian horror in the twenty-first century / Leeder, Murray -- PART TWO: DOCUMENTARY AND EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKING -- 9 Beauty day and the crises of self-directed work / Meneghetti, Mike -- 10 Mythologizing Manitoba: the negated truth of my Winnipeg / Siegel, Miriam and Keil, Charlie -- 11 Indigenizing the archive: souvenir and the NFB / Roberts, Gillian -- 12 I-doc and my-doc: bear 71 and highrise as Canadian documentaries / Feldman, Seth -- 13 Diasporic sights: trauma and representation in recent Canadian poetic cinema / Browne, Dan -- 14 dominique t. skoltz and new states of cinematic matter / Wilmink, Melanie -- PART THREE: CANADIAN FILM CONTEXTS, FESTIVALS, AND INDUSTRIES -- 15 A taxing culture: reconsidering the service production / Acland, Charles R. -- 16 collective action! unions in the Canadian film and television industry / Coles, Amanda -- 17 Making room: international co-productions and Canadian national cinema / Lester, Peter -- 18 Troubling Toronto queer festivals: transgressions in and of queer counterpublics / Mitchell, Aimee -- 19 From showcase to lightbox: programming the national on the festival circuit / Burgess, Diane
- ISBN
- 9780228015949
- Accession Number
- P2023.08
- Call Number
- 06.3 C23c
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Carrying the burden of peace : reimagining Indigenous masculinities through story
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- 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
- 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
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Connecting the Kootenays : the Kootenay Lake ferries, a hundred years of service 1921-2020
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- January 2022
- Author
- Cone, Michael A.
- Publisher
- Nelson, British Columbia : Michael A. Cone
- Call Number
- 08.5 C75c
- Author
- Cone, Michael A.
- Publisher
- Nelson, British Columbia : Michael A. Cone
- Published Date
- January 2022
- Physical Description
- 354 pages
- Abstract
- Connecting the Kootenays chronicles the history of the Kootenay Lake ferry service from its modest beginnings in 1921 through to its 100th anniversary in 2020. -- From back cover
- Contents
- The Great Trunk Road (1908-1921) ; The Canadian Pacific Railway Fills the Gap (1884-1913) ; The Nasookin: Queen of Kootenay Lake (1913-1930) ; Nelson to Kuskanook: A Trip to Remember (1921-1930) ; The Provinical Government Steps In (1931) ; The Great Depression and the Second World War (1931-1947) ; Saying Goodbye to the Nasookin (1947-1956) ; A New Ferry and a New Route (1947-1954) ; The Auxiliary Ferry: The Balfour (1954) ; Growing Pains for the Two-Ferry Service and the Opening of the "Skyway" (1955-1963) ; Labour Strife, Major Rebuilds and Looking beyond the New Millennium (1964-1999) ; The Osprey 2000, Privitization and Facing Challenges Ahead (2000-2020)
- ISBN
- 9781778350511
- Accession Number
- P2022.12
- Call Number
- 08.5 C75c
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Country of poxes : three germs and the taking of territory
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25687
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Mukhopadhyay, Baijayanta
- Publisher
- Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
- Call Number
- 08.2 M91c
- Author
- Mukhopadhyay, Baijayanta
- Responsibility
- Foreword by Dr. Darlene Kitty
- Publisher
- Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 264 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- Country of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox, and tuberculosis. These infectious diseases reveal that medical care, widely considered a magnanimous cornerstone of the Canadian state, developed in lockstep with colonial control over Indigenous land and life. Pathogens are storytellers of their time. The 500 year-old debate over the origins of syphilis reflects colonial judgments of morality and sexuality that became formally entwined in medicine. Smallpox is notoriously linked with the project of land theft, as colonizers destroyed Indigenous land, economies and life in the name of disease eradication. And tuberculosis, considered the "Indian disease," aroused intense fear of contagion that launched separate systems of care for Indigenous peoples in a de facto medical apartheid, while white settlers retreated to sanatoria in the Laurentians and Georgian Bay to be cured from the disease. In this immersive and deeply reflective book, physician and activist Dr. Baijayanta Mukhopdhyay provides riveting insights into the biological and social relationships of disease and empire. Country of Poxes considers the future of health in Canada that heeds redress and healing for nations brutalised by the Canadian state.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- 1. Pandemics past : how infections have defined humanity -- 2. Syphilis -- 3. Smallpox -- 4. Tuberculosis -- 5. Fevers future : how we respond to infections to come
- ISBN
- 9781773635545
- Accession Number
- P2023.02
- Call Number
- 08.2 M91c
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- Reading Room
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Dark days at noon : the future of fire
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26239
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Struzik, Edward
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 04 St8d
- Author
- Struzik, Edward
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- ix, 291 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour map ; 27 cm
- Abstract
- The catastrophic runaway wildfires advancing through North America and other parts of the world are not unprecedented. Fires loomed large once human activity began to warm the climate in the 1820s, leading to an aggressive firefighting strategy that has left many of the continent's forests too old and vulnerable to the fires that many tree species need to regenerate. Dark Days at Noon provides a broad history of wildfire in North America, from pre-European contact to the present, in the hopes that we may learn from how we managed fire in the past, and apply those lessons in the future. As people continue to move into forested landscapes to work, play, live, and ignite fires--intentionally or unintentionally--fire has begun to take its toll, burning entire towns, knocking out utilities, closing roads, and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. Fire management in North America requires attention and cooperation from both sides of the border, and many of the most significant fires have taken place at the boundary line. Despite a clear lack of political urgency among political leaders, Edward Struzik argues that wildfire science needs to guide the future of fire management, and that those same leaders need to shape public perception accordingly. By explaining how society's misguided response to fire has led to our current situation, Dark Days at Noon warns of what may happen in the future if we do not learn to live with fire as the continent's Indigenous Peoples once did. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. Prelude to the dark days at noon -- 2. The fire triangle -- 3. More dark days coming -- 4. The big burn -- 5. Big burns in Canada -- 6. Paiute forestry -- 7. Fire suppression -- 8. The Civilian Conservation Corps -- 9. Canada's Conservation Corps -- 10. The fall of the Dominion Forest Service -- 11. The royal commission into wildfire -- 12. White man's fire -- 13. International co-operation -- 14. Blue moon and blue sun -- 15. Nuclear winter -- 16. Yellowstone: A turning point -- 17. Big and small grizzlies -- 18. Climate and the age of megafire -- 19. The holy shit fire -- 20. The Pyrocene -- 21. Nuclear winter: Part two -- 22. Owls and clear-cuts -- 23. Water on fire -- 24. The Arctic on fire -- 25. The big smoke -- 26. Fire news -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9780228012092
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 04 St8d
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Dominion : the railway and the rise of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26203
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Bown, Stephen R.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
- Call Number
- 08.5 B68d
- Author
- Bown, Stephen R.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Abstract
- Stephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the engineering triumph that created a nation. In The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally thrilling and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In the late 19th century, demand for fur was in sharp decline. This could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson's Bay Company. But an idea emerged in political and business circles in Ottawa and Montreal to connect the disparate British colonies into a single entity that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With over 3,000 kilometers of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable terrain, the CPR would be the longest railroad in the world and the most difficult to build. Its construction was the defining event of its era and a catalyst for powerful global forces. The times were marked by greed, hubris, blatant empire building, oppression, corruption and theft. They were good for some, hard for most, disastrous for others. The CPR enabled a new country, but it came at a terrible price. In recent years Canadian history has been given a rude awakening from the comforts of its myths. In Dominion, Stephen Bown again widens our view of the past to include the adventures and hardships of explorers and surveyors, the resistance of Indigenous peoples, and the terrific and horrific work of many thousands of labourers. His vivid portrayal of the powerful forces that were molding the world in the late 19th century provides a revelatory new picture of modern Canada's creation as an independent state."-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 9780385698726
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 08.5 B68d
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Ed and Dorothy : Rocky Mountain romance
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25229
- 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
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- Responsibility
- Lea Storry
- Brian Carleton
- Mike Carleton
- Terry Carleton
- Publisher
- Alberta : Family Lines Publishing
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 307 pages
- 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
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- Archives Library
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- Publisher's website
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Educating the body : a history of physical education in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26240
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2024
- Author
- Hall, M. Ann, Kidd, Bruce and Vertinsky, Patricia
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 H14e
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2024
- Physical Description
- xvi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Abstract
- The thesis of this work sets out a history of physical education in Canada with a focus on the major advocates, innovators, and institutions that helped shaped it. This work places the historical narrative within the social, economic, and political conditions that impacted institutions, advocates, and innovators as they influenced the formulation of state physical education schooling in Canada between the Ryerson era (1803-1882) and ending with the early decades of the 21st century. The title of the work, "Educating the Body" recognizes that "the body" has its own unique vocabulary and analysis, and as such, reflects the authors' belief that physical education curriculum should ideally enable the learner to direct their own discovery of body agency (and the joy of movement) in ways that are creative, self-expressive and true to their lived body experience. As the work demonstrates, however, waves of state-directed physical education curriculum each held their own agenda about how the "ideal" child and adolescent body should be trained within the context of hegemonic paradigms of dominance and control. The work is framed around three major developments that shape the analysis: a) the significant growth of critical, social scientific research about physical education and sport during the last 50 years (through the lens of social, material, feminist, post-structuralist and queer theory); b) the tensions underlying the evolution of kinesiology and the "displacement" (p. 13) of physical education as a school subject; and c) evidence from the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Ryerson and His Vision -- Towards a Pan-Canadian Curriculum -- The Margaret Eaton School: Forty Years of Women's Physical Education -- Fit for Living -- Setting a Heroic Agenda--Realizing the Possibilities -- Changing Times and New Initiatives -- Seeking Optimism in a Contested Field.
- ISBN
- 9781487508562
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 08.1 H14e
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The geography of memory : reclaiming the cultural, natural and spiritual history of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First people
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25654
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Delehanty Pearkes, Eileen
- Publisher
- Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 07.2 D37a
- Author
- Delehanty Pearkes, Eileen
- Publisher
- Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- This compact book records a quest for understanding, to find the story behind the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First Nation. Known in the United States as the Arrow Lakes Indians of the Colville Confederated Tribes, the tribe lived along the upper Columbia River and its tributaries for thousands of years. In a story unique to First Nations in Canada, the Canadian federal government declared them “extinct” in 1956, eliminating with the stroke of a pen this tribe’s ability to legally access 80 per cent of their trans-boundary traditional territory. Part travelogue, part cultural history, the book details the culture, place names, practices, and landscape features of this lost tribe of British Columbia, through a contemporary lens that presents all readers with an opportunity to participate in reconciliation. -- From publisher
- ISBN
- 9781771605212
- Accession Number
- P2022.14
- Call Number
- 07.2 D37a
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Hard is the journey : stories of Chinese settlement in British Columbia's Kootenay
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26249
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Chow, Lily
- Publisher
- Qualicum Beach, BC : Caitlin Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 C46h
- Author
- Chow, Lily
- Publisher
- Qualicum Beach, BC : Caitlin Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Chinese
- Women
- Immigration
- Canada
- History
- British Columbia
- Abstract
- In Hard is the Journey, award-winning historian and researcher Lily Chow shares the difficult history of Chinese Canadians in the Kootenay. She unearths the racism of early newspapers that portrayed Chinese immigrants as dirty, sinister, and lethargic people not fit to live in BC and uncovers the history of the Chinese labourers who completed the deadly work of blazing the Dewdney Trail from Hope to Kootenay only to be dismissed, without any compensation, as soon as the project was completed. She also offers an intimate and inspiring look into the many ways Chinese immigrants survived, finding community, building resilience, and preserving their culture. Piecing together interviews with Kootenay residents and descendents of Chinese immigrants, government records and documents, and early newspaper articles, Chow bravely exposes dark parts of BC's history while shedding light on the struggles but also resilience and untold accomplishments of the Chinese immigrants who risked everything and often lost their lives in building the Canada we know today. Hard is the Journey is Chow's fourth book on the history of Chinese Canadians. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The Wild Horse Creek gold rush: Fisherville -- The key city: Cranbrook -- Once the Farwell town: Revelstoke -- The queen city: Nelson -- The golden city: Rossland -- Afterword.
- ISBN
- 9781773860749
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 08.3 C46h
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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
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- 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
- 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
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- Archives Library
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Hudson's Bay Company : Edmonton House journals, including the Peigan Post, 1826-1834
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25543
- 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
- Series
- Hudson's Bay Company : Edmonton House Journals
- 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
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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
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- Responsibility
- Barbara G. Barnes
- Cora J. Voyageur
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : Brush Education Inc.
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 132 pages
- 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
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- Archives Library
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A is for Alberta
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26181
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Johnstone, Mindy
- Publisher
- Banff, Alberta : Summerthought
- Call Number
- 05 J64a
- 05 J64a Reference copy
- Author
- Johnstone, Mindy
- Publisher
- Banff, Alberta : Summerthought
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 32 pages ; ill.
- Subjects
- Literature
- Children
- Alberta
- History
- Abstract
- Discover the special places of Alberta in this colourful alphabet book by local artist Mindy Johnstone. The vibrant scenes are acrylic paintings highlighting the diverse landscape and activities of Alberta -- a rhyming journey from A to Z that visits city festivals, ancient badlands, the northern lights, and snowy peaks. From back cover.
- ISBN
- 9781926983554
- Accession Number
- P2023.17 reference copy
- P2022.14 signed
- Call Number
- 05 J64a
- 05 J64a Reference copy
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