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Canada's place names and how to change them
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25683
- Medium
- 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.
- Contents
- 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
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Rocky voices : the memories of minerals that form the Rocky Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26193
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Enkelmann, Eva
- Publisher
- Altona, MB : FriesenPress
- Call Number
- 03.2 En5r
- 03.2 En5r reference copy
- Author
- Enkelmann, Eva
- Publisher
- Altona, MB : FriesenPress
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 113 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- A collection of stories from the perspectives of personified minerals found in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Lucy Calcite -- Sir Charles Zircon -- Jenny Apatite -- Joel Illite -- Captain Susi Sanidine -- Sam Coal -- Emma Amphipora -- David Rock Flour -- Karen Waterdrop -- Peter Pebble -- Bridget Cement -- Ray Clay.
- ISBN
- 9781039161542
- Accession Number
- P2023.17
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 03.2 En5r
- 03.2 En5r reference copy
- Collection
- Archives Library
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