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1950s Canada : politics and public affairs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25702
- 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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Aboriginal TM : the cultural and economic politics of recognition
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Adese, Jennifer
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 A3a
- Author
- Adese, Jennifer
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous People
- Indigenous Traditions
- Tourism
- Language
- Politics
- Abstract
- In Aboriginal™, Jennifer Adese explores the origins, meaning, and usage of the term "Aboriginal" and its displacement by the word "Indigenous." In the Constitution Act, 1982, the term's express purpose was to speak to the "aboriginal rights" acknowledged in Section 35(1). Yet in the wake of the Constitution's passage, Aboriginal, in its capitalized form, became far more closely aligned with Section 35(2)'s interpretation of which specific groups held those rights, and was increasingly used to describe and categorize people. More than simple legal and political vernacular, the term Aboriginal (capitalized or not) has had real-world consequences for the people it defined. Aboriginal™ argues the term was a tool used to advance Canada's cultural and economic assimilatory agenda throughout the 1980s until the mid-2010s. Moreover, Adese illuminates how the word engenders a kind of "Aboriginalized multicultural" brand easily reduced to and exported as a nation brand, economic brand, and place brand--at odds with the diversity and complexity of Indigenous peoples and communities. In her multi-disciplinary research, Adese examines the discursive spaces and concrete sites where Aboriginality features prominently: the Constitution Act, 1982; the 2010 Vancouver Olympics; the "Aboriginal tourism industry"; and the Vancouver International Airport. Reflecting on the term's abrupt exit from public discourse and the recent turn toward Indigenous, Indigeneity, and Indigenization, Aboriginal™ offers insight into Indigenous-Canada relations, reconciliation efforts, and current discussions of Indigenous identity, authenticity, and agency. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. Aboriginal, aboriginality, aboriginalism, aboriginalization: what's in a word? -- Aboriginalized multiculturalism tm: Canada's olympic national brand -- Selling Aboriginal experiences and authenticity: Canadian and Aboriginal tourism -- Marketing aboriginality and the branding of place: the case of Vancouver international airport -- Conclusion: thoughts on the end of aboriginalization and the turn to indigenization.
- Notes
- Title appears with the trademark symbol after the word "Aboriginal".
- ISBN
- 9781772840056
- Accession Number
- P2023.09
- Call Number
- 07.2 A3a
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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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The arts of Indigenous health and well-being
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25714
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 S9t
- Responsibility
- Edited by Nancy Van Styvendale, J. D. McDougall, Robert Henry, and Robert Alexander Innes
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous Traditions
- Indigenous Peoples
- Health
- Oral History
- Medicine
- Abstract
- Drawing attention to the ways in which creative practices are essential to the health, well-being, and healing of Indigenous peoples, The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being addresses the effects of artistic endeavour on the "good life", or mino-pimatisiwin in Cree, which can be described as the balanced interconnection of physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being. In this interdisciplinary collection, Indigenous knowledges inform an approach to health as a wider set of relations that are central to well-being, wherein artistic expression furthers cultural continuity and resilience, community connection, and kinship to push back against forces of fracture and disruption imposed by colonialism. The need for healing--not only individuals but health systems and practices--is clear, especially as the trauma of colonialism is continually revealed and perpetuated within health systems. The field of Indigenous health has recently begun to recognize the fundamental connection between creative expression and well-being. This book brings together scholarship by humanities scholars, social scientists, artists, and those holding experiential knowledge from across Turtle Island to add urgently needed perspectives to this conversation. Contributors embrace a diverse range of research methods, including community-engaged scholarship with Indigenous youth, artists, Elders, and language keepers. The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being demonstrates the healing possibilities of Indigenous works of art, literature, film, and music from a diversity of Indigenous peoples and arts traditions. This book will resonate with health practitioners, community members, and any who recognize the power of art as a window, an entryway to access a healthy and good life. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- "Art for life's sake": approaches to indigenous arts, health, and well-being / Nancy Van Styvendale, J.D. McDougall, Robert Henry, and Robert Alexander Innes -- What this pouch holds / Gail MacKay -- Baskets, birchbark scrolls, and maps of land: indigenous making practices as oral historiography / Andrea Riley-Mukavetz -- For Kaydence and her cousins: health and happiness in cultural legacies and contemporary contexts / Adesola Akinleye -- Stories and staying power: artmaking as (re)source of cultural resilience and well-being for Panniqtumiut / Alena Rosen -- Healthy connections: facilitator's perceptions of programming linking arts and wellness with indigenous youth / Mamata Pandey, Nuno F. Ribeiro, Warren Linds, Linda M. Goulet, Jo-Ann Episkenew, and Karen Schmidt -- The doubleness of sound in Canada's Indian residential schools / Beverley Diamond -- Kissed by lightning: mediating Haudenosaunee traditional teachings through film / Nicholle Dragone -- Minobimaadiziwinke (creating a good life): native bodies healing / Petra Kuppers and Margaret Noodin -- Body counts: war, pesticides, and queer spirituality in Cherri´e Moraga's Heroes and saints / Desiree Hellegers -- The language of soul and ceremony / Louise Halfe -- Sa^kihiwa^win: land's overflow into the space-tial "otherwise" / Karyn Recollet.
- ISBN
- 9780887559396
- Accession Number
- P2023.09
- Call Number
- 07.2 S9t
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- Archives Library
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Bead by bead : constitutional rights and Métis community
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25524
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 B71b
- Responsibility
- Edited by Yvonne Boyer and Larry Chartrand
- Publisher
- Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- xii, 221 pages ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Metis
- Canada
- Politics
- Colonialism
- Identity
- Abstract
- What does the phrase Me´tis peoples mean in constitutional terms? As lawyers and scholars dispute forms of Me´tis identity, and debate the nature and scope of Me´tis rights under the Canadian Constitution, understanding Me´tis experience of colonization is fundamental to achieving reconciliation. In Bead by Bead, contributors address the historical denial - at both federal and provincial levels - of outstanding Me´tis concerns and Aboriginal rights claims, in particular with respect to land, resources, and governance. Tackling such themes as ongoing colonial policies, the invisibility of Me´tis women in court decisions, identity politics, and racist legal principles, they uncover the troubling issues that plague Me´tis aspirations for a just future. This nuanced analysis of the parameters that current Indigenous legal doctrines place around Me´tis rights discourse moves beyond a one-size-fits-all definition of Me´tis or a uniform approach to Aboriginal rights. By raising critical questions about self-determination, colonization, kinship, land, and other essential aspects of Me´tis lived reality, these clear-eyed essays go beyond legal theorizing and create pathways to respectful, inclusive Me´tis-Canadian constitutional relationships. (Provided by Publisher)
- Contents
- Me´tis identity captured by law: struggles over use of the category Me´tis in Canadian law / Se´bastien Grammond ; Recognition and reconciliation: recent developments in Me´tis rights law / Thomas Isaac ; Shifting the status quo: the duty to consult and the Me´tis of British Columbia / Christopher Gall and Brodie Douglas ; The resilience of Me´tis title: rejecting assumptions of extinguishment / Karen Drake and Adam Gaudry ; Where are the women? Analyzing the three Me´tis Supreme Court of Canada decisions / Brenda L. Gunn ; Manitoba Me´tis Federation and Daniels: "post-legal" reconciliation and Western Me´tis / Jeremy Patzer ; Colonial ideologies: the denial of Me´tis political identity in Canadian law / D'Arcy Vermette ; Me´tis Aboriginal rights: four legal doctrines / Darren O'Toole ; Suzerainty, sovereignty, jurisdiction: the future of Me´tis ways / Signa A. Daum Shanks.
- ISBN
- 9780774865975
- Accession Number
- P2022.04
- Call Number
- 07.2 B71b
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- Archives Library
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Beyond the orange shirt story
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25692
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Webstad, Phyllis
- Publisher
- Medicine Wheel Publishing
- Call Number
- 07.2 W39b
- Author
- Webstad, Phyllis
- Publisher
- Medicine Wheel Publishing
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 102 pages
- Abstract
- Beyond the Orange Shirt Story is a unique collection of truths that articulate the lives and experiences of some Residential School Survivors and their families. Compiled by Phyllis Webstad, Residential School Survivor and Founder of the Orange Shirt Day movement, this book will give readers an up-close look at what life was like for many Survivors -- before, during, and after their Residential School experiences. These personal Survivor accounts, relayed in a number of one on one interviews, are authentically shared in their own voices.-- Provided by Publisher
- Contents
- 1. Phyllis Webstad -- 2. Suzanne Edward Jim (Phyllis Webstad's great-grandmother) -- 3. Helena (Lena) Jack (Nee Billy) (Phyllis Webstad's grandmother) -- 4. Rose Wilson Nee Jack (Phyllis Webstad's mother) -- 5. Theresa Jack (Phyllis Webstad's auntie) -- 6. Hazel Agness Jack (Phyllis Webstad's auntie) -- 7. Jeremy Boston (Phyllis Webstad's son) -- 8. Mason and Blake Murphy (Phyllis Webstad's grandchildren) -- 9. Lynn Eberts (Phyllis Webstad's elementary school teacher) -- 10. Photos of Phyllis Webstad's family -- 11. St. Joseph's Mission Residential School.
- ISBN
- 9781989122754
- Accession Number
- P2022.14
- Call Number
- 07.2 W39b
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Blackfoot ways of knowing : the worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26211
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Bastien, Betty
- Publisher
- Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Edition
- 9th printing
- Call Number
- 07.2 B29b
- Author
- Bastien, Betty
- Responsibility
- Ju¨rgen W. Kremer, editor ; Duane Mistaken Chief, language consultant.
- Edition
- 9th printing
- Publisher
- Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xx, 235 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Blackfoot
- Siksikaitsitapi
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous Customs
- Indigenous People
- Indigenous Traditions
- Indigenous Language
- Abstract
- The worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi is a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. In sharing her personal story of coming home to reclaim her identity within that culture, Betty Bastien offers us a gateway into traditional Blackfoot ways of understanding and experiencing the world. As a scholar and researcher, Bastien is also able to place Blackfoot tradition within the context of knowledge building among indigenous peoples generally, and within an historical context of precarious survival amid colonial displacement and cultural genocide. -- From back cover
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- Context -- Introduction -- Innahkootaitsinnika'topi -- History of the Blackfoot-speaking tribes -- Introductory remarks -- Iitotasimahpi Iimitaiks -- The era of the dog or the time of the ancestors (Pre-eighteenth century) -- Ao'ta'sao'si Ponokaomita -- the era of the horse (eighteeneth century to 1880) -- Ao'maopao'si -- from when we settled in one place (1880) to today -- Cultural destruction -- policies of ordinary genocide -- Tribal protocol and affirmative inquiry -- Niinohkanistssksinipi -- Speaking personally -- Traditional knowledge in academe -- Cultural affirmation -- Protocol of affirmative inquiry -- Affirmation of indigenous knowledge -- Kakyosin -- traditional knowledge -- Kiitomohpiipotoko -- ontological responsibilities -- Siksikaitsitapi ways of knowing -- epistemology -- Knowledge is coming to know Ihtsipaitapiiyo'pa -- Kakyosin/Mokaksin -- Indigenous learning -- Niisi'powahsinni-language -- Aipommotsspistsi -- transfers -- Kaaahsinnooniksi -- grandparents -- Conclusion: renewal of ancestral responsibilities as antidote to genocide -- Deconstructing the colonized mind -- Eurocentred and Niitsitapi identity -- Reflections and implications.
- ISBN
- 9781552381090
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 07.2 B29b
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Braiding sweetgrass for young adults : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25691
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : Zest Books
- Call Number
- 07.2 W15s
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Responsibility
- Adapted by Monique Gray Smith ; Illustrations by Nicole Neidhardt
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : Zest Books
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Abstract
- Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Meeting sweetgrass. An invitation to remember ; Skywoman falling ; Wiingaashk -- Planting sweetgrass. The council of pecans ; The gift of strawberries ; An offering ; Asters and goldenrod -- Tending sweetgrass. Maple sugar moon ; Witch hazel ; Allegiance to gratitude -- Picking sweetgrass.Epiphany in the beans ; The three sisters ; Wisgaak Gokpenagen : a black ash basket ; Mishkos Kenomagwen : the teachings of grass ; Maple nation : a citizenship guide ; The honorable harvest -- Braiding sweetgrass. In the footsteps of Nanabozho : becoming indigenous to place ; Sitting in a circle ; Burning cascade head ; Putting down roots ; Old-growth children -- Burning sweetgrass. Windigo footprints People of corn, people of light ; Shkitagen : People of the seventh fire ; Defeating Windigo.
- ISBN
- 9781728458991
- Accession Number
- P2023.03
- Call Number
- 07.2 W15s
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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.
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- 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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Canada's place names and how to change them
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25683
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Beck, Lauren
- Publisher
- Montreal, Quebec : Concordia University Press
- Call Number
- 02.1 B39c
- Author
- Beck, Lauren
- Publisher
- Montreal, Quebec : Concordia University Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- ix, 251 pages ; 21 cm
- Abstract
- The first book to demonstrate how inadequately place names and visual emblems represent the presence of women, people of colour, and people living with disabilities, Canada’s Place Names and How to Change Them provides an illuminating overview of where these names came from and what they reflect. This book disentangles the distinct cultural, religious, and historical naming practices and visual emblems in Canada’s First Nations, provinces, territories, municipalities, and federal lands. Starting with a discussion of Indigenous place knowledge and naming practices from several Indigenous and Inuit groups spanning the country, it foregrounds the breadth of possible ways to name places. Lauren Beck then illustrates the naming practices introduced by Europeans and how they misunderstood, mis-rendered, and appropriated Indigenous place names, while scrutinizing the histories of Columbian names, missionary names, and the secular and commemorative names of the last two centuries. She studies key symbols and emblems such as maps, flags, and coats of arms as visual equivalents of place names to show whose identities powerfully inform Canada’s place nomenclature. This book also documents the policies and authorities that have traditionally governed the creation and modification of names and examines case studies of institutions and communities who have changed their names to demonstrate pathways to change.-- Provided by publisher.
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- Knowing in Place -- A Brief History of Settler-Colonial Naming Practices in Canada -- Gender and Canada’s Place Names -- Indigenous Names in a Settler-Colonial Context -- Marginalized Groups and Canada’s Place Names -- How to Discuss and Change Names.
- ISBN
- 9781988111391
- Accession Number
- P2023.01
- Call Number
- 02.1 B39c
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- Reading Room
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