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The identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith : portrait of a Metis woman, 1861-1960
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19811
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- MacKinnon, Doris Jeanne
- Publisher
- Regina : CPRC Press
- Call Number
- 08.2 M11t
- Author
- MacKinnon, Doris Jeanne
- Responsibility
- Doris Jeanne MacKinnon
- Publisher
- Regina : CPRC Press
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- x, 193 pages : illustrations, facsimile, genealogical table, portraits ; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Women
- Metis
- Western Canada
- Western history
- Pincher Creek
- Abstract
- "This book relates the history and self-identifying process of a Me´tis woman who lived on the western plains of Canada during the transitional period from fur trade to sedentary agricultural economy. Marie Rose Delorme Smith was a woman of French-Me´tis ancestry who was born during the fur trade era and who spent her adult years as a pioneer rancher in the Pincher Creek district of southern Alberta. Sold by her mother at the age of sixteen to a robe and whiskey trader several years older than her, Marie Rose went on to raise seventeen children, establish a boarding house, take a homestead, serve as medicine woman and midwife, and to publish several articles in the early prairie ranch periodical, Canadian Cattlemen. The author relies on close readings of these articles, as well as the diaries, manuscripts, and fictional writing of Marie Rose Delorme Smith, along with personal interviews with her descendants. These sources allow a close examination of the self-identifying process for Marie Rose as she negotiated the changing environment of the western plains during the late 1800s and early 1900s when large numbers of Anglo-speaking immigrants settled in the area. Clearly proud of her Me´tis identity, Marie Rose was a member of an extended family who served as Louis Riel's soldiers, and she presented that identity tentatively in her own writings. Roles which Marie Rose assumed with pride were those of author, historian, mother, and historical character, and these roles serve as themes from which to examine her life."--Publisher's website.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - the historical character
- Chapter 2 - the "historian"
- Chapter 3 - the person
- Chapter 4 - the author
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 - terms and sources
- Appendix 2 - descendants of Joseph Henault et Enaud dit Canada
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- ISBN
- 978-0-88977-236-6
- Accession Number
- 2019.33
- Call Number
- 08.2 M11t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The American Western in Canadian literature
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25703
- 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
- Collection
- Archives Library
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An impending water crisis in Canada's western prairie provinces
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24934
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Schindler, D.W.
- Donahue, W.F.
- Publisher
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Call Number
- 03.5 Sc1a PAM
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- Author
- Schindler, D.W.
- Donahue, W.F.
- Responsibility
- D.W. Schindler
- W.F. Donahue
- Publisher
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 6 pages ; illustrations , maps
- Abstract
- Canada is usually considered to be a country with abundant freshwater, but in its western prairie provinces (WPP), an area 1/5 the size of Europe, freshwater is scarce. European settlement of the WPP did not begin until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Fortuitously, the period since European settlement appears to have been the wettest century of the past two millennia. The frequent, long periods of drought that characterized earlier centuries of the past two millennia were largely absent in the 20th century. Here, we show that climate warming and human modifications to catchments have already significantly reduced the flows of major rivers of the WPP during the summer months, when human demand and in-stream flow needs are greatest. We predict that in the near future climate warming, via its effects on glaciers, snowpacks, and evaporation, will combine with cyclic drought and rapidly increasing human activity in the WPP to cause a crisis in water quantity and quality with far-reaching implications.
- Notes
- In PNAS May 9, 2006 103 (19) 7210-7216
- Call Number
- 03.5 Sc1a PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Available online via PNAS's website
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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
- Collection
- Archives Library
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[Beavermouth 82N/11 West, B.C.]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue23494
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1959
- Publisher
- Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
- Call Number
- NTS
- 82N/11W
- Publisher
- Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 1 map : col
- Scale
- Scale: 1: 50,000
- Relief: Contour interval 100'
- Subjects
- Beavermouth
- Western British Columbia
- Notes
- Beavermouth
- National Topographic System
- Call Number
- NTS
- 82N/11W
- Collection
- Archives Library
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[Blaeberry 82N/6 West, B.C.]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue23498
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1959
- Publisher
- Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
- Call Number
- NTS
- 82N/6W
- Publisher
- Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 1 map : col
- Scale
- Scale: 1: 50,000
- Relief: Contour interval 100'
- Subjects
- Blaeberry
- Western British Columbia
- Notes
- National Topographic System
- Call Number
- NTS
- 82N/6W
- Collection
- Archives Library
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[Blairmore 82G/9 West, Alberta]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue23501
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1946
- Publisher
- Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
- Call Number
- NTS
- 82G/9W
- Publisher
- Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
- Published Date
- 1946
- Physical Description
- 1 map : col
- Scale
- Scale: 1:50,000
- Relief: Contour interval 100'
- Subjects
- Blairmore
- Western Alberta
- Notes
- National Topographic System
- Call Number
- NTS
- 82G/9W
- Collection
- Archives Library
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[Blue Creek 83E/7 West, Alta.]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue23504
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1960
- Publisher
- Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
- Call Number
- NTS
- 83E/7W
- Publisher
- Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
- Published Date
- 1960
- Physical Description
- 1 map : col
- Scale
- Scale: 1:50,000
- Relief: Contour Interval 100 ft.
- Subjects
- Blue Creek
- Western Alberta
- Notes
- National Topographic System
- Accession Number
- 3000
- Call Number
- NTS
- 83E/7W
- Collection
- Archives Library
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[Blue River 83D/3 West, B.C.]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue23506
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1963
- Publisher
- Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
- Call Number
- NTS
- 83D/3W
- Publisher
- Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
- Published Date
- 1963
- Physical Description
- 1 map : col
- Scale
- Scale: 1:50,000
- Relief: Contour Interval 100 ft
- Subjects
- Blue River
- Western British Columbia
- Notes
- National Topographic System
- Accession Number
- 3000
- Call Number
- NTS
- 83D/3W
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Subjects
- Europe - Western
- Notes
- The Irish Sea, The German Sea. The British Ocean
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- C13-12.7
- Collection
- Archives Library
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