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Finding directions west : readings that locate and dislocate Western Canada's past
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25531
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 c71f
- Responsibility
- Edited by George Colpitts and Heather Devine
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- ix, 266 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- History-Canada
- History of Alberta
- Migration
- Colonialism
- Feminism
- Banff Centre
- Women's Rights
- Abstract
- Western Canada has figured historically as a focus point for new directions in human thought and action, migrations of the mind and body, and personal journeys of both a substantial and transcendental nature. The essays in Finding Directions West interrogate the meaning of those journeys, their reality, their memory, and their constructed identities within Western Canada itself. The book situates landscapes and peopled places in the West within the larger study of Western Canada and its transborder relationships. It draws scholars from a vareity of disciplines within history, from gender studies, to museum studies, to environmental history, in order to examine afresh Western Canada as a place for finding new directions in the human experience. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Partial List of Contents: Colonizer or Compatriot?: A Reassessment of Reveren John McDougall / Will Pratt ; "The Country Was Looking Wonderful": Insights on 1930s Alberta from the Travel Diary of Mary Beatrice Rundle / Sterling Evans ; Mountain Capitalists, Space, and Modernity at the Banff School of Fine Arts / PearlAnn Reichwein and Karen Wall
- ISBN
- 9781552388808
- Accession Number
- P2021.05
- Call Number
- 07.2 c71f
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Hudson's Bay Company : Edmonton House journals, correspondence, and reports, 1806-1821
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25541
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : Historical Society of Alberta
- Call Number
- 08.2 B51t
- Responsibility
- Edited with an introduction by Ted Binnema and Gerhard J. Ens
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : Historical Society of Alberta
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 530 pages
- Series
- Edmonton House Journals
- Abstract
- In 1795 the Hudson's Bay Company established Edmonton House and the North West Company Fort Augustus a few kilometres downstream from the present day city of Edmonton. Although both posts were moved several times, they operated side by side as the major administrative, trade, and provisioning centres on the North Saskatchewan River from 1795 to 1821, when the companies merged. The post journals and district reports from Edmonton House for the period from 1806 to 1821 are reproduced verbatim in this volume. Long available only to researchers with access to the collections of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, these journals and district reports provide a detailed day-by-day account of the operations of Edmonton House during this crucial period. They provide direct insight into the Aboriginal, social, and economic history of the region, and new information on the foundation of the Red River settlement adn the struggle for control of the trade in the Athabasca region. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Edmonton House Post Journals, 1806-1921 ; District Reports, 1816-1821
- ISBN
- 9780929123202
- Accession Number
- P2022.08
- Call Number
- 08.2 B51t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Talking back to the indian act : critical readings in settler colonial histories
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25530
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Kelm, Mary-Ellen and Smith, Keith D.
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 K27t
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 218 pages
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Politics
- Legislation
- Colonialism
- Abstract
- Talking Back to the Indian Act is a comprehensive "how-to" guide for engaging with historical evidence. The book helps readers develop the skills necessary for conversing with primary sources in refined and profound ways. As a piece of legislation that is central to Canada's relationship with Indigenous peoples and communities, the Indian Act is uniquely positioned to act as a vehicle for this kind of focused reading. Through an analysis of over thirty documents addressing governance, gender, enfranchisement, and land, the authors provide a deep understanding of this pivotal piece of legislation, as well as insight into the dynamics incolved in its creation and maintenance. The book includes a timeline, maps, and images. -- From back cover
- ISBN
- 9781487587352
- Accession Number
- P2021.04
- Call Number
- 07.2 K27t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Words have a past : the English language, colonialism, and the newspapers of Indian boarding schools
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25726
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Griffith, Jane
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 G87w
- Author
- Griffith, Jane
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xi, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- For nearly 100 years, Indian boarding schools in Canada and the US produced newspapers read by white settlers, government officials, and Indigenous parents. These newspapers were used as a settler colonial tool, yet within these tightly controlled narratives there also existed sites of resistance. This book traces colonial narratives of language, time, and place from the nineteenth-century to the present day, post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Bury the lede: introduction -- Printer's devil: the trade of newspapers -- Indigenous languages did not disappear: English language instruction -- "Getting Indian words": representations of indigenous languages -- Ahead by a century: time on paper -- Anachronishm: reading the nineteenth century today -- Layout: space, place, and land -- Concluding thoughts.
- ISBN
- 9781487521554
- Accession Number
- P2023.12
- Call Number
- 07.2 G87w
- Collection
- Archives Library
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