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Douglas family fonds

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Part Of: Douglas family fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of Howard Douglas papers and Douglas family photographs. Textual records pertain mainly to the Pablo-Allard buffalo acquisition, 1910-1911. This includes correspondence between Douglas and prospective participants in buffalo hunt of the Pablo-Allard herd on the Flathead Indian Reser…

Date Range: 1895-1941, 1963

Reference Code: M246 / V178

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Textual record; Private record; Published record

Part Of: Douglas family fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 246; V 178

Sous-Fonds: M 246; V 178

Accession Number: 1530, 1894

Reference Code: M246 / V178

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Textual record; Private record; Published record

Date Range: 1895-1941, 1963

Physical Description: 2 cm of textual records. -- 103 photographs : prints

History / Biographical: Howard Douglas, 1852-1929, was Superintendent of Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada from 1896 until 1910 and Commissioner of Dominion Parks, 1910-1911. Douglas was involved in acquiring buffalo from the Pablo-Allard herd for Canada. The round-up commenced in 1907 and was completed in 1912 with a total of 716 animals purchased. In 1910, Douglas was instrumental in organizing a hunt of old bulls on the reserve. The scheme was quashed by the Montana Attorney General

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of Howard Douglas papers and Douglas family photographs.; Textual records pertain mainly to the Pablo-Allard buffalo acquisition, 1910-1911. This includes correspondence between Douglas and prospective participants in buffalo hunt of the Pablo-Allard herd on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, U.S.A.; mainly circular letters, telegrams, etc. from applicants and confidential letters between Douglas and Alexander Ayotte, assistant immigration agent Canada, Montana re the ill-fated last buffalo hunt. Also includes photocopies of miscellaneous clippings and Douglas biography, 1963, by Marie Douglas.; Photographs, 1895-1941, pertain to Douglas family and friends, visitors, social activities; also trips, especially Jasper, Alberta area, scenic views, road construction and Pablo-Allard buffalo roundup

Name Access: Douglas, Howard

Subject Access: Buffalo; Environment; Family and personal life

Access Restrictions: No restrictions on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools: basic description of photograph

Creator: Douglas, Howard

Category: Environment; Family and personal life

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed

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Blood memory : the tragic decline and improbable resurrection of the American Buffalo

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2023

Author: Duncan, Dayton and Burns, Ken

Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf

Call Number: 08 D91b

Author: Duncan, Dayton and Burns, Ken

Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf

Published Date: 2023

Physical Description: xvi, 329 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Buffalo; Pablo-Allard buffalo round-up; Conservation; Indigenous; Colonialism; Environment; Ecology

Abstract: The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today--a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo--our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even larger. For nearly 10,000 years, they evolved alongside Native people who weaved them into every aspect of daily life; relied on them for food, clothing, and shelter; and revered them as equals. Newcomers to the continent found the buffalo fascinating at first, but in time they came to consider them a hindrance to a young nation's expansion. And in the space of only a decade they were slaughtered by the millions for their hides, with their carcasses left to rot on the prairies. Then, teetering on the brink of disappearing from the face of the earth, they would be rescued by a motley collection of Americans, each of them driven by different--and sometimes competing--impulses. This is the rich and complicated story of a young republic's heedless rush to conquer a continent, but also of the dawn of the conservation era--a story of America at its very best and worst -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Part 1: The Trail to Extinction -- The Buffalo and the People -- Strangers -- Omen in the Skies -- The Iron Horse -- Kills Tomorrow -- Part 2: Back From the Brink -- A Death Wind for My People -- Just in the Nick of Time -- Changes of Heart -- Ghosts -- The Last Refuge -- Blood Memory -- Big Medicine.

Notes: Dayton Duncan ; based on a documentary film by Ken Burns ; written by Dayton Duncan ; with an introduction by Ken Burns ; picture research by Emily Mosher and Susan Shumaker ; design by Maggie Hinders.; Whyte Museum archival collections utilized.

ISBN: 9780593537343

Accession Number: P2023.25

Call Number: 08 D91b

Collection: Archives Library

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Buffalo National Park and the second demise of the plains bison in Canada, 1909-1940

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2004

Author: Brower, Jennifer Lynn

Publisher: University of Alberta, Department of History and Classics

Call Number: 13.117 B81b

Author: Brower, Jennifer Lynn

Responsibility: Jennifer Lynn Brower

Publisher: University of Alberta, Department of History and Classics

Published Date: 2004

Physical Description: [9], 209 leaves : 1 col. folded map

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Pablo Allard buffalo round up; Buffalo; Harkin James Bernard

Notes: "A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Arts in History, Department of History and Classics." Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2004.

Accession Number: 8178

Call Number: 13.117 B81b

Collection: Archives Library

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Buffalo sacred & sacrificed

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1995

Author: MacEwan, Grant

Publisher: Edmonton : Alberta Sport, Recreation, Parks & Wildlife

Call Number: 04.2 M15

Author: MacEwan, Grant

Publisher: Edmonton : Alberta Sport, Recreation, Parks & Wildlife

Published Date: 1995

Physical Description: 208p. : ill., map

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Animal Paddock; Pablo Allard buffalo round-up; Sir Donald (buffalo)

Notes: Bibliographical footnotes

ISBN: 0-9699355-0-1

Accession Number: 6867

Call Number: 04.2 M15

Collection: Archives Library

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Untitled

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Artist: Edward Fred Hagell (1895 – 1964, Canadian)

Date: 1951

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: HaE.02.01

Description: In center of picture a ring of bison, some calves, are warding off 3 wolves. The foreground, which covers two thirds of picture is rolling benchlands down to a river shown at middle right, many bison are seen in the distance in valley bottom and on the hills. Mountains on horizon to the right. The …

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Artist: Edward Fred Hagell (1895 – 1964, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1951

Medium: oil on canvas board

Description: In center of picture a ring of bison, some calves, are warding off 3 wolves. The foreground, which covers two thirds of picture is rolling benchlands down to a river shown at middle right, many bison are seen in the distance in valley bottom and on the hills. Mountains on horizon to the right. The sky is blue with tinges of white and green. A plaque is attached to the frame: To Chief Walking Buffalo who has bravely fought to bring the right spirit to the people of Canada and the world from his friends commemorating his 91st birthday March 20, 1962.