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Educating the body : a history of physical education in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26240
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2024
- Author
- Hall, M. Ann, Kidd, Bruce and Vertinsky, Patricia
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 H14e
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2024
- Physical Description
- xvi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Abstract
- The thesis of this work sets out a history of physical education in Canada with a focus on the major advocates, innovators, and institutions that helped shaped it. This work places the historical narrative within the social, economic, and political conditions that impacted institutions, advocates, and innovators as they influenced the formulation of state physical education schooling in Canada between the Ryerson era (1803-1882) and ending with the early decades of the 21st century. The title of the work, "Educating the Body" recognizes that "the body" has its own unique vocabulary and analysis, and as such, reflects the authors' belief that physical education curriculum should ideally enable the learner to direct their own discovery of body agency (and the joy of movement) in ways that are creative, self-expressive and true to their lived body experience. As the work demonstrates, however, waves of state-directed physical education curriculum each held their own agenda about how the "ideal" child and adolescent body should be trained within the context of hegemonic paradigms of dominance and control. The work is framed around three major developments that shape the analysis: a) the significant growth of critical, social scientific research about physical education and sport during the last 50 years (through the lens of social, material, feminist, post-structuralist and queer theory); b) the tensions underlying the evolution of kinesiology and the "displacement" (p. 13) of physical education as a school subject; and c) evidence from the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. -- Provided by publisher.
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- Ryerson and His Vision -- Towards a Pan-Canadian Curriculum -- The Margaret Eaton School: Forty Years of Women's Physical Education -- Fit for Living -- Setting a Heroic Agenda--Realizing the Possibilities -- Changing Times and New Initiatives -- Seeking Optimism in a Contested Field.
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- 9781487508562
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
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- 08.1 H14e
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- Archives Library
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Dominion : the railway and the rise of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26203
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Bown, Stephen R.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
- Call Number
- 08.5 B68d
- Author
- Bown, Stephen R.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Abstract
- Stephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the engineering triumph that created a nation. In The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally thrilling and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In the late 19th century, demand for fur was in sharp decline. This could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson's Bay Company. But an idea emerged in political and business circles in Ottawa and Montreal to connect the disparate British colonies into a single entity that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With over 3,000 kilometers of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable terrain, the CPR would be the longest railroad in the world and the most difficult to build. Its construction was the defining event of its era and a catalyst for powerful global forces. The times were marked by greed, hubris, blatant empire building, oppression, corruption and theft. They were good for some, hard for most, disastrous for others. The CPR enabled a new country, but it came at a terrible price. In recent years Canadian history has been given a rude awakening from the comforts of its myths. In Dominion, Stephen Bown again widens our view of the past to include the adventures and hardships of explorers and surveyors, the resistance of Indigenous peoples, and the terrific and horrific work of many thousands of labourers. His vivid portrayal of the powerful forces that were molding the world in the late 19th century provides a revelatory new picture of modern Canada's creation as an independent state."-- Provided by publisher.
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- 9780385698726
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
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- 08.5 B68d
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- Archives Library
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North of America : Canadians and the American century, 1945-60
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26238
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 M19n
- Responsibility
- Edited by Asa McKercher and Michael D. Stevenson
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Abstract
- In 1941, influential publishing magnate Henry Luce wrote a stirring essay on American global power, declaring that the world was in the midst of the first great American century. What did a newly outward-looking and hegemonic United States mean for its northern neighbour? From constitutional reform to transit policy, from national security to the arrival of television, Canadians were ever mindful of the American experience. This sharp-eyed volume provides a unique look at postwar Canada, bringing to the fore the opinions and perceptions of a broad range of Canadians--from consumers to diplomats, jazz musicians to urban planners, and a diverse cross-section in between. -- Provided by publisher.
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- "A Natural Development": Canada and Non-Alignment in the Age of Eisenhower / David Webster -- Cheers to the Canadian Wheat Surplus! Lester Pearson's Visit to the Soviet Union and the West's Détente Dilemma / Susan Colbourn -- Living Dangerously: Canadian National Security Policy and the Nuclear Revolution / Timothy Andrews Sayle -- From Normandy to NORAD: Canada and the North Atlantic Triangle in the Age of Eisenhower / Asa McKercher and Michael D. Stevenson -- An Emerging Constitutional Culture in Canada's Postwar Moment / P.E. Bryden -- Rethinking Postwar Domesticity: The Canadian Household in the 1950s / Bettina Liverant -- Racial Discrimination in "Uncle Tom's Town": Media and the Americanization of Racism in Dresden, 1948-56 / Jennifer Tunnicliffe -- Between Distrust and Acceptance: The Influence of the United States on Postwar Quebec / François-Olivier Dorais and Daniel Poitras -- Living the Good Life? Canadians and the Paradox of American Prosperity / Stephen Azzi -- Make Room for (Canadian) TV: Print Media Cover the Arrival of Television in the Shadow of American Cultural Imperialism, 1930-52 / Emily LeDuc -- Getting Off the Highway: Frederick Gardiner and Toronto's Transit Policy in the Age of the Interstate Highway, 1954-63 / Jonathan English -- Talking Jazz at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, 1956-58 / Eric Fillion.
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- 9780774868846
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 08.1 M19n
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- Archives Library
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Decolonizing sport
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26241
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
- Call Number
- 07.2 F77d
- Responsibility
- Edited by Janice Forsyth, Christine O'Bonsawin, Russell Field, and Murray G. Phillips
- Publisher
- Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Canada
- History-Canada
- Education
- Sport
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous People
- Indigenous Traditions
- Indigenous Customs
- Abstract
- The path to decolonization is difficult and complex, and can even be contradictory at times, as when an Indigenous community enlists the same corporate sponsor that will destroy its natural environment to provide sport programming for its youth. There is no easy way forward. The Black Lives Matter movement, and their massive followers on social media, propelled forward discussions about the inequities that Covid-19 highlighted with unprecedented momentum. Indigenous people in Canada voiced their concerns in solidarity, calling attention to disparities they faced in everything from impoverished Indigenous health care initiatives to the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the Canadian justice system, demanding to be heard alongside systemic change. Structural adjustments were afoot, including changes in the professional sport leagues. In both the United States and Canada, people witnessed the toppling of racist sports team names and logos in the spring and summer, not the least of which included the American Washington NFL team (Redskins) and the Canadian Edmonton CFL team (Eskimos). Clearly Indigenous people and their allies saw sport as a part of this desire for social change. This multi-authored collection contributes to that desire by bringing the work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous allied scholars together to explore the history of sport, physical activity, and embodied physical culture in the Indigenous context. Including chapters that address Indigenous topics beyond the political boundaries of Canada, including the US, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, and Kenya, this collection considers questions such as: How can the history of sport (a colonizing practice with European origins) exist in dialogue with Indigenous voices to open up possibilities for reconsidering the history of modern sport? How can Indigenous and anti-oppressive research methodologies/methods inform the study of sport history? What are the ethics and responsibilities associated with conducting an Indigenous sport or recreation history? How can sport history as a discipline be open to the study of traditional land-based recreation? How can the meanings of "sport" be made more inclusive to include a variety of recreational practices? How can sport historians learn from histories of colonization and how can they contribute to a more reciprocal approach to knowledge formation through Indigenous community engagement? How can the discipline of sport history meaningfully support movements of Indigenous resurgence, regeneration, and decolonization? -- Provided by publisher.
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- Ways of knowing: sport, colonialism, and decolonization / Janice Forsyth, Christine O'Bonsawin, Russell Field -- Beyond competition: an Indigenous perspective on organized sport / Brian Rice -- More than a mascot: how the mascot debate erases Indigenous people in sport / Natalie Welch -- Witnessing painful pasts: understanding images of sports at Canadian Indian residential schools / Taylor McKee and Janice Forsyth -- The absence of Indigenous moving bodies: whiteness and decolonizing sport history / Malcolm MacLean -- # 87: using Wikipedia for sport reconciliation / Victoria Paraschak -- Olympism at face value: the legal feasibility of Indigenous-led Olympic Games / Christine O'Bonsawin -- Canoe racing to fishing guides: sport and settler colonialism in Mi'kma'ki / John Reid -- Transcending colonialism?: rodeos and racing in Lethbridge / Robert Kossuth -- "Men pride themselves on feats of endurance": masculinities and movement cultures in Kenyan running history / Michelle M. Sikes -- Stealing, drinking, and not cooperating: sport and everyday resistance in Aboriginal settlements in Australia / Gary Osmond -- Let's make baseball!: practices of unsettling on the recreational ball diamonds of Tkaronto/Toronto / Craig Fortier and Colin Hastings -- Subjugating and liberating at once: Indigenous sport history as a double-edge sword / Brendan Hokowhitu.
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- 9781773636344
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 07.2 F77d
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School of racism : a Canadian history, 1830-1915
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26242
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Larochelle, Catherine
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Edition
- First English-language edition
- Call Number
- 08.1 L32s
- Author
- Larochelle, Catherine
- Responsibility
- Translated by S.E. Stewart
- Edition
- First English-language edition
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- viii, 464 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- Exposing the history of racism in Canada's classrooms Winner of the prestigious Clio-Quebec, Lionel-Groulx, and Canadian History of Education Association awards In School of Racism, Catherine Larochelle demonstrates how Quebec's school system has, from its inception and for decades, taught and endorsed colonial domination and racism. This English translation of the award-winning book extends its crucial lesson to readers across the country, bridging English- and French-Canadian histories to deliver a better understanding of Canada's past and present identity. Using postcolonial, antiracist, and feminist theories and methodologies, Larochelle examines late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century classroom materials used in Quebec's public and private schools. Many of these textbooks, and others like them, made their way into curricula across Canada. Larochelle's innovative analysis illuminates how textual and visual representations found in these archives constructed Indigenous, Black, Arab, and Asian peoples as "the Other" while reinforcing the collective identity of Quebec, and Canada more broadly, as white. Uncovering the origins and persistence of individual and systemic racism against people of colour, Larochelle shows how Otherness was presented to--and utilized by--young Canadians for almost a century. School of Racism names the ways in which Canada's education system has supported and sustained ideologies of white supremacy--ideologies so deeply embedded that they still linger in school texts and programming today. The book offers new insight into how Canadian and Quebecois concepts of nationalism and racism overlap, helps educators confront racism in their classrooms, and deepens urgent discussions about race and colonialism throughout Canada. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Cover -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Theories of Otherness -- Chapter 2. Other Societies: Imperialist Knowledge and Orientalist Representations -- Chapter 3. The Other-Body, or Alterity Inscribed in the Flesh -- Chapter 4. The Indian: Domination, Erasure, and Appropriation -- Chapter 5. The Other Observed or "Teaching through the Eyes" -- Chapter 6. Of Missions and Emotions: Children and the Missionary Mobilization -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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- 9781772840537
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 08.1 L32s
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Not hockey : critical essays on Canada's other sport literature
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26244
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Athabasca, Alberta : AU Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 Ab3n
- Responsibility
- Edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp
- Publisher
- Athabasca, Alberta : AU Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 239 pages ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- In this carefully curated collection of essays, editors Jamie Dopp and Angie Abdou go beyond their first collection, Writing the Body in Motion, to engage with the meaning of sport found in Canadian sport literature. How does 'sport' differ from physically risky recreational activities that require strength and skill? Does sport demand that someone win? At what point does a sport become an art? With the aim of prompting reflections on and discussions of the boundaries of sport, contributors explore how literature engages with sport as a metaphor, as a language, and as bodily expression. Instead of a focus on what is often described as Canada's national pastime, contributors examine sports in Canadian literature that are decidedly not hockey. From skateboarding and parkour to fly fishing and curling, these essays engage with Canadian histories and broader societal understandings through sports on the margin. Interspersed with original reflections by iconic Canadian literary figures such as Steven Heighton, Aritha Van Herk, Thomas Wharton, and Timothy Taylor, this volume is fresh and intriguing and offers new ways of reading the body. -- Provided by publisher.
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- Introduction -- Part I: Niche Sports and Subcultures: Non-commercial Experiences -- 1 "All Lithe Power and Confidence": Skateboarding in Michael Christie's If I Fall, If I Die -- Burn the Scoreboards: Michael Christie on Skateboarding and Olympic Sport -- 2 Olympic Athletes Versus Parkour Artists: Sport, Art, and the Critique of Celebrity Culture in Timothy Taylor's The Blue Light Project -- On The Blue Light Project -- 3 Covering Distance, Coming of Age, and Communicating Subculture: David Carroll's Young Adult Sports Novel Ultra -- 4 Out of the Ordinary: Curling in The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon and Men with Brooms -- Part II: Colonialism and Nature -- 5 Sporting Mountain Voice: Alpinism and (Neo)colonial Discourse in Thomas Wharton's Icefields and Angie Abdou's The Canterbury Trail -- "Climbing It with Your Mind" -- 6 A "Most Enthusiastic Sportsman Explorer": Warburton Pike in The Barren Ground -- 7 Getting Away from It All, or Breathing It All In: Decolonizing Wilderness Adventure Stories -- Part III: Gender, Race, and Class -- 8 "Maggie's Own Sphere": Fly Fishing and Ecofeminism in Ethel Wilson's Swamp Angel -- 9 "Don't Expect Rodeo to Be a Sweet Sport": Ambiguity, Spectacle, and Cowgirls in Aritha van Herk's Stampede and the Westness of West -- Contention, On Rodeo -- 10 Immigration, Masculinity, and Olympic-Style Weightlifting in David Bezmozgis's "The Second Strongest Man" -- Weightlifting, Humour, and the Writer's Sensibility -- 11 "It All Gets Beaten Out of You": Poverty, Boxing, and Writing in Steven Heighton's The Shadow Boxer -- On Boxing -- 12 Turn It Upside Down: Race and Representation in Sport, Sport Literature, and Sport Lit Scholarship.
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- 9781771993777
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
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- 08.1 Ab3n
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Rare merit : women in photography in Canada, 1840-1940
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25534
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Skidmore, Colleen
- Publisher
- Vancouver, British Columbia : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 Sk3r
- Author
- Skidmore, Colleen
- Publisher
- Vancouver, British Columbia : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 356 pages
- Subjects
- Photography
- Women
- History-Canada
- Travel
- Abstract
- As Canada took shape in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the camera was there throughout as both a witness to the colonialism, capitalism, and gendered and racialized social organization, and as a protagonist. And women across the country, whether residents or visitors, photographed people and places that were entirely new to the lens. Rare Merit examines how they did so, why their images look the way they do, and the meanings their work carries. Studio portraitists, travel documentarians, photojournalists, fine artists, hobbyists, and photographic printers make up the assembly, beginning with the arrival in Nova Scotia of North America’s first professional woman photographer, the American daguerreotypist Mrs. Fletcher. Colleen Skidmore surveys the professional lives and photographs of nearly eighty women who followed her, from Lucy Maude Montgomery on Prince Edward Island to Élise Livernois in Quebec City, and from Margaret Bourke-White in the Arctic to Hannah Maynard on Vancouver Island. Why women? Why not women? Presenting the exceptional range of their work, Rare Merit proves that women’s practices and images--knowingly omitted from founding narratives of photographic history--were diverse, compelling, widespread, and influential. Whenever and wherever women photographers lived, travelled, and worked, their impact undermined the status quo. -- Provided by publisher
- Contents
- The Daguerreans, 1841-61 ; The Livernois Studio, 1854-74 ; Notman's Printing Room, 1860-80 ; The Maynard Studio, 1862-1912 ; The Moodie Studio, 1895-1905 ; Travel, Photography, and Photojournalism, 1872-1940 ; Commercial Studio Photographers,1860-1940 ; Artists and Amateurs, 1890-1940
- ISBN
- 9780774867054
- Accession Number
- 2022.09
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- 08.1 Sk3r
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- Reading Room
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- Archives Library
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Unsettling Canadian art history
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25727
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 06 M84u
- Responsibility
- Edited by Erin Morton
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- xviii, 340 pages : illustrations (some in colour) ; 26 x 21 cm
- Subjects
- Canada
- Art
- Colonialism
- History-Canada
- Race
- Abstract
- Rethinking visual and material histories of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized disapora in the contested white settler state of Canada Bringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, Unsettling Canadian Art History addresses the visual and material culture of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada. This collection offers new avenues for scholarship on art, archives, and creative practice by rethinking histories of Canadian colonialisms from Black, Indigenous, racialized, feminist, queer, trans, and Two-Spirit perspectives. Writing across many positionalities, contributors offer chapters that disrupt colonial archives of art and culture, excavating and reconstructing radical Black, Indigenous, and racialized diasporic creation and experience. Exploring the racist frameworks that continue to erase histories of violence and resistance, Unsettling Canadian Art History imagines the expansive possibilities of a decolonial future. Unsettling Canadian Art History affirms the importance of collaborative conversations and work in the effort to unsettle scholarship in Canadian art and culture. -- Provided by publisher.
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- Introduction: Unsetting Canadian art history / Erin Morton -- Part One: Unsettling settler methodologies, re-centring decolonial knowledge -- White settler tautologies and pioneer lies in Mi’km’ki / Travis Wysote and Erin Morton -- Notes to a nation: Teachings on land through the art of Norval Morrisseau / Carmen Robertson -- Embodying decolonial methodology: Building and sustaining critical relationality in the cultural sector / Leah Decter and Carla Taunton -- Silence as resistance: When silence is the only weapon you have left / Lindsay McIntyre -- Part Two: Excavating and creating decolonial archives -- Truth is no stranger to (para)fiction: Settlers, arrivants, and place in Iris Ha¨ussler’s He Named Her Amber, Camille Turner’s BlackGrange, and Robert Houle’s Garrison Creek Project / Mark A. Cheetham -- “Ran away from her Master…a Negroe Girl named Thursday”: Examining evidence of punishment, isolation, trauma, and illness in Nova Scotia and Quebec fugitive slave advertisements / Charmaine A. Nelson -- “Miner with a Heart of Gold”: Native North America, Vol.1 and the colonial excavation of authenticity / Henry Adam Svec -- Excavation: Memory work / Sylvia D. Hamilton -- Part Three: Reclaiming sexualities, tracing complicities -- Bear grease, whips, bodies, and breads: Community building and refusing trauma porn in Dayna Danger’s Embodied 2Spirit Arts Praxis / Dorian J. Fraser, Dayna Danger, and Adrienne Huard -- Coming out a l’oriental: Diasporic art and colonial wounds / Andrew Gayed -- Indian Americans engulfing “American Indian”: Marking the “Dot Indians” Indianess through genocide and casteism in diaspora / Shaista Patel.
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- 9780228010982
- Accession Number
- P2022.13
- Call Number
- 06 M84u
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A stunning backdrop : Alberta in the movies, 1917-1960
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25734
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Graham, Mary
- Publisher
- Calgary, AB : Bighorn Books, an imprint of University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 06.3 G76a
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- Graham, Mary
- Publisher
- Calgary, AB : Bighorn Books, an imprint of University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- xi, 401 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 28 cm
- Abstract
- The unconventional, untold story of Alberta's film history, defined by the terrible beautify of its pristine landscape, surprisingly important to Hollywood, and recaptured in lost or ignored Indigenous perspectives and stories. Alberta's magnificent landscape has served as a popular location for filmmakers since the dawn of the movie industry. For film pioneers, Alberta embodied the myth of the Great Northwest, a primeval mountain wilderness and the last western frontier. In turn, Canadian entrepreneurs were eager for American studios to drape Alberta landscape across the backdrop of their movies, an advertisement without equal. A Stunning Backdrop is the untold story of six rollicking decades of filmmaking in Alberta. Mary Graham draws on twelve years of exhaustive research to reveal a film history like no other, illuminating the deep importance of the province to Hollywood. She explores the often friendly partnerships between American filmmakers and Indigenous communities, particularly the Stoney Nakoda, that provided economic opportunities and, in many cases, allowed them to retain religious and cultural practices banned by the Canadian government. Beautifully illustrated with archival photography and featuring century-old set stills alongside photographs of the locations as they appear today, by Jean Becq, Solomon Chiniquay, Jeff Wallace, George Webber, and Paul Zizka, A Stunning Backdrop is the fascinating, often surprising, always unconventional story of film in a province whose rugged, compelling, multifarious, terribly beautiful landscape continues to inspire filmmakers and audiences around the world.-- Provided by publisher.
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- Early Alberta movie landscapes today -- Into the (civilized) wilds -- Snow! snow! snow! -- A rabble rouser and a dreamer -- Father of the western -- In the shadow of Castle Mountain -- Royalty, great chiefs, ranches, and rodeos -- The joy girl and others of a gregarious nature -- Mountain men -- Building the railway, movie style -- War and propaganda -- Out of the coma -- Rodeo westerns of the atomic age -- Selling sex and nostalgia -- Making Rocky Mountain movie magic -- The power of revision -- List of movies made in Alberta, 1917-1960
- Notes
- Mary Graham received the Whyte Museum's Lillian Agnes Jones Fellowship, 2021-2022.
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- 9781773853932
- Accession Number
- P2023.20
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- 06.3 G76a
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Dark days at noon : the future of fire
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26239
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Struzik, Edward
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 04 St8d
- Author
- Struzik, Edward
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- ix, 291 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour map ; 27 cm
- Abstract
- The catastrophic runaway wildfires advancing through North America and other parts of the world are not unprecedented. Fires loomed large once human activity began to warm the climate in the 1820s, leading to an aggressive firefighting strategy that has left many of the continent's forests too old and vulnerable to the fires that many tree species need to regenerate. Dark Days at Noon provides a broad history of wildfire in North America, from pre-European contact to the present, in the hopes that we may learn from how we managed fire in the past, and apply those lessons in the future. As people continue to move into forested landscapes to work, play, live, and ignite fires--intentionally or unintentionally--fire has begun to take its toll, burning entire towns, knocking out utilities, closing roads, and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. Fire management in North America requires attention and cooperation from both sides of the border, and many of the most significant fires have taken place at the boundary line. Despite a clear lack of political urgency among political leaders, Edward Struzik argues that wildfire science needs to guide the future of fire management, and that those same leaders need to shape public perception accordingly. By explaining how society's misguided response to fire has led to our current situation, Dark Days at Noon warns of what may happen in the future if we do not learn to live with fire as the continent's Indigenous Peoples once did. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. Prelude to the dark days at noon -- 2. The fire triangle -- 3. More dark days coming -- 4. The big burn -- 5. Big burns in Canada -- 6. Paiute forestry -- 7. Fire suppression -- 8. The Civilian Conservation Corps -- 9. Canada's Conservation Corps -- 10. The fall of the Dominion Forest Service -- 11. The royal commission into wildfire -- 12. White man's fire -- 13. International co-operation -- 14. Blue moon and blue sun -- 15. Nuclear winter -- 16. Yellowstone: A turning point -- 17. Big and small grizzlies -- 18. Climate and the age of megafire -- 19. The holy shit fire -- 20. The Pyrocene -- 21. Nuclear winter: Part two -- 22. Owls and clear-cuts -- 23. Water on fire -- 24. The Arctic on fire -- 25. The big smoke -- 26. Fire news -- Conclusion.
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- 9780228012092
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
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- 04 St8d
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Liquor and the liberal state : drink and order before prohibition
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26245
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Malleck, Dan
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 M29l
- Author
- Malleck, Dan
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- xiv, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Canada
- History-Canada
- Prohibition
- Law
- Law enforcement
- Abstract
- Cultural pastime, profitable industry, or harmful influence on the nation? Liquor was a tricky issue for municipal, provincial, and federal governments after Confederation. Liquor and the Liberal State traces the takeover of liquor regulation by the Ontario provincial government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dan Malleck explores how notions of individual freedom, equality, and property rights were debated, challenged, and modified in response to an active prohibitionist movement and equally active liquor industry. While the liquor licensing regime helped build a vast patronage base for the governing Liberal Party, some believed it exceeded the constitutional authority of the provinces. The drink question became as political as it was moral - a key issue in the establishment of judicial definitions of provincial and federal rights, and, ultimately in the crafting of the modern state. Liquor and the Liberal State demonstrates the challenges governments faced when dealing with the seemingly simple, but tremendously complicated, alcoholic beverage. This lively and meticulous work shows how commentators of all stripes fit the liquor question into a complex conception of liberalism, typically seeing either prohibition or excessive consumption of liquor as an infringement of personal liberty and a threat to the fundamental values of the nation. -- Provided by publisher.
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- Introduction: Arguing over liquor and liberalism -- The place of the government in the drinks of the people -- Centralization, I: The Crooks act -- Power and influence in the new system -- Politics, law, and the license branch -- How drinking affects the constitution, 1864-83 -- McCarthy and Crooks enter a tavern, 1883-85 -- Attempting to water down the Scott Act, 1884-92 -- Plebiscites as tools for change? 1883-94 -- Talking and blocking national prohibition, 1891-99 -- Dodging decisions at the end of the liberals' era, 1894-1905 -- Drinking in Whitney's conservative liberal state, 1905-07 -- Centralization, II: Beyond the Crooks Act, 1907-16 -- Conclusion: liquor, liberalism, and the legacy of the Crooks act.
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- 9780774867177
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 08.1 M29l
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Pleasure and panic : new essays on the history of alcohol and drugs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26247
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Malleck, Dan and Krasnick Warsh, Cheryl
- Publisher
- Vancouver [British Columbia] ; Toronto [Ontario] : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 M29p
- Publisher
- Vancouver [British Columbia] ; Toronto [Ontario] : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- viii, 313 pages ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Canada
- History-Canada
- Health
- Health and Social Development
- Health and wellness
- Drugs
- Prohibition
- Law
- Abstract
- Booze, dope, smokes, and weed. Mind-altering, mood-changing substances have been part of human society for millennia. Pleasure and Panic reveals how attitudes toward drug and alcohol consumption have always been deeply embedded in cultural fears and social, political, and economic disparities. Contributors to this collection explore how drugs and alcohol intersect with diverse histories, including gender, medicine, popular culture, and business. Pleasure and Panic brings a dispassionate voice to current debates about liberalizing drug and alcohol laws and challenges existing ideas about how to deal with the so-called problems of drug and alcohol use. -- Provided by publisher.
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- The transgressive woman: gender, class, alcohol, and drugs in Canada from 1850 / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh -- "To find out the best men and to try to get them in": Women, temperance, and politics in Manchester, 1873-1919 / Cynthia Belaskie -- Youth, drugs, and surveillance at Manseau's Woodstock Pop Festival / Eric Fillion -- John Lennon, the Le Dain Commission, and the rise of the celebrity activist / Greg Marquis -- Manhood, drink, and the "medical heresy" of US Army surgeon James Mann (1812-16) / Renée Lafferty-Salhany -- Medicinal purposes: pharmacists, professionalism, and liquor laws in victorian Ontario / Dan Malleck -- A new perspective on harm reduction: George Peters and the Chicago LSD rescue service / Chris Elcock -- Flogging a dead horse? Adulteration and brewing in nineteenth-century England / Jonathan Reinarz -- Charlie Wing and the Alberta Liquor Control Board: The story of the first Chinese-Canadian hotel licensee in Post-prohibition Alberta / Sarah E. Hamill -- The rise of the "Big Three": The emergence of a Canadian brewing oligopoly, 1945-62 / Matthew J. Bellamy.
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- 9780774867528
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
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- 08.1 M29p
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The politics of the canoe
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25511
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 E4t
- Responsibility
- Edited by Bruce Erickson and Sarah Wylie Krotz
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- xi, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Canoeing
- Politics
- History
- History-Canada
- Water
- Abstract
- Popularly thought of as a recreational vehicle and one of the key ingredients of an ideal wilderness getaway, the canoe is also a political vessel. A potent symbol and practice of Indigenous cultures and traditions, the canoe has also been adopted to assert conservation ideals, feminist empowerment, citizenship practices, and multicultural goals. Documenting many of these various uses, this book asserts that the canoe is not merely a matter of leisure and pleasure; it is folded into many facets of our political life. Taking a critical stance on the canoe, The Politics of the Canoe expands and enlarges the stories that we tell about the canoe's relationship to, for example, colonialism, nationalism, environmentalism, and resource politics. To think about the canoe as a political vessel is to recognize how intertwined canoes are in the public life, governance, authority, social conditions, and ideologies of particular cultures, nations, and states. Almost everywhere we turn, and any way we look at it, the canoe both affects and is affected by complex political and cultural histories. Across Canada and the U.S., canoeing cultures have been born of activism and resistance as much as of adherence to the mythologies of wilderness and nation building. The essays in this volume show that canoes can enhance how we engage with and interpret not only our physical environments, but also our histories and present-day societies. -- From back cover
- Contents
- The Politics of the Canoe / Bruce Erickson and Sarah Wylie Krotz ; Tribal Canoe Journeys and Indigenous Cultural Resurgence: A Story from the Heiltsuk Nation / Frank Brown, Hillary Beattie, Vina Brown, and Ian Mauro ; This is What Makes Us Strong: Canoe Revitalization, Reciprocal Heritage, and the Chinnok Indian Nation / Rachel L. Cushman, Jon D. Daehnke, and Tony A. Johnson ; Whaehdoo Eto K'e / John B. Zoe and Jessica Dunkin ; Building Canoe, Knowledge, and Relationships ; Model Canoes, Territorial Histories, and Linguistic Resurgence: Decolonizing the Tappan Adney Archives / Chris Ling Chapman ; Ginawaydaganuc: The Birchbark Canoe in Algonquin Community Resurgence and Reconciliation / Chuck Commanda, Larry McDermott, and Sarah Nelson ; Beyond Birchbark: How Lahontan's Images of Unfamiliar Canores Confirm His Remarkable Western Expedition of 1688 / Peter H. Wood ; Monumental Trip: Don Starkell's Canoe Voyage from Winnipeg to the Mouth of the Amazon / Albert Braz ; The Dam That Wasn't: How the Canoe Became Political on the Petawa River / Cameron Baldassarra ; Unpacking and Repacking the Canoe: Canoe as Research Vessel / Danielle Gendron
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- 9780887559099
- Accession Number
- P2022.03
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- 07.2 E4t
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Edward Feuz Jr. : a story of enchantment
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25535
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Stephen, D. L.
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 08.3 Stem4e
- Author
- Stephen, D. L.
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 318 pages
- Subjects
- Feuz, Edward
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers, Swiss
- Guide
- Swiss Guides Village, Edelweiss, B.C.
- Tourism
- History-Canada
- Rocky Mountains
- Abstract
- As a young Swiss boy, Edward Feuz Jr. (1884–1981) developed an insatiable passion for climbing. In time, he traded his Lausbub reputation for that of a responsible Swiss guide and was eventually drawn to Canada in the footsteps of his father, Edward Feuz Sr. (1859–1944), who was one of the first Swiss guides hired by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1898 to develop the alpinism in western Canada. Handsome and charismatic, Edward (while still in training for his trade) was instantly smitten with the Canadian landscape — and so were his guests. They raved about the young man who showed such exceptional skills. He guided them all — professors, women of independent means, students, newspaper people, a Hindu holy man, and even “Sherlock Holmes” — through untrailed forests, across roaring streams, up icy glaciers, and to the tops of rocky summits. Young and old, they were all enchanted, and so they returned time and again — to the mountains and to their friend Edward. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Pilgrims ; Edward ; How it All Began ; How we came to Share the Enchantment ; Feuz Haus ; How They Did It ; Reading the Signs ; Snapshots ; Life with Edward ; Edward's Girls
- ISBN
- 9781771605090
- Accession Number
- 2021.41
- Call Number
- 08.3 Stem4e
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- Reading Room
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Seen but not seen : influential Canadians and the First Nations from the 1840s to today
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25536
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Smith, Donald B.
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 Smi5s
- Author
- Smith, Donald B.
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- xxxii, 451 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Ethnic groups
- Indigenous
- Politics
- History-Canada
- Abstract
- Throughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth century, the majority of Canadians argued that European "civilization" must replace Indigenous culture. The ultimate objective was assimilation into the dominant society. Seen but Not Seen explores the history of Indigenous marginalization and why non-Indigenous Canadians failed to recognize Indigenous societies and cultures as worthy of respect. Approaching the issue biographically, Donald B. Smith presents the commentaries of sixteen influential Canadians - including John A. Macdonald, George Grant, and Emily Carr - who spoke extensively on Indigenous subjects. Supported by documentary records spanning over nearly two centuries, Seen but Not Seen covers fresh ground in the history of settler-Indigenous relations. -- From back cover
- Contents
- John A. Macdonald and the Indians ; John McDougall and the Stoney Nakoda ; George Monro Grant: an English Canadian Public Intellectual and the Indians ; Chancellor John A. Boyd and Fellow Georgian Bay Cottager Kathleen Coburn ; Duncan Campbell Scott: Determined Assimilationist ; Paul A.W. Wallace and The White Roots of Peace ; Quebec Viewpoints: From Lionel Groulx to Jacques Rousseau ; Attitudes on the Pacific coast: Franz Boas, Emily Carr, and Maisie Hurley ; Alberta Perspectives: Long Lance, John Laurie, Hugh Dempsey, and Harold Cardinal ; Epilogue: First Nations and Canada's Conscience
- ISBN
- 9781442649989
- Accession Number
- 2022.13
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- 08.3 Smi5s
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Journey north : the Inuit Art Centre Project = Aullaaniq Ukiuqtaqtuq : Inuit Sabanguaganut Iglurjuaq Piliaksaq
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25677
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Borys, Stephen D.
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : Winnipeg Art Gallery
- Call Number
- 06 B65j
- Author
- Borys, Stephen D.
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : Winnipeg Art Gallery
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 285 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm
- Subjects
- Art galleries
- culture
- Museum
- Inuit
- History-Canada
- Abstract
- To commemorate the official opening of the Inuit Art Centre, now named Qaumajuq, Winnipeg Art Gallery Director and CEO, Dr. Stephen Borys, set out to share the story of this extraordinary museum and building project. His book, Journey North: The Inuit Art Centre Project, traces the history of the centre beginning with the establishment of the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1912, when the foundation was laid to support a diverse and far-reaching mission that could embrace both historical and contemporary artmaking on national and international levels. By the time director Dr. Ferdinand Eckhardt arrived at the gallery in 1953, and discovered Inuit stone carving at the Hudson's Bay Company department store located across the street from the WAG, the idea of assembling a collection to celebrate this Indigenous art form moved closer to reality. This account of the development of the Inuit Art Centre includes different historical and contemporary perspectives and voices through a compilation of texts and images. In addition to the key essay by the book's author Stephen Borys, several writers from across the country have shared their stories about the gallery, the Inuit art collection, and the building project. In addition to the essays and the architectural renderings of the Inuit Art Centre by Michael Maltzan, the book also includes: a selection of Arctic photographs taken by Hazel Mouzon Borys and Iwan Baan, a series of construction images by Winnipeg Free Press photographers Mike Sudoma and Mike Deal, and finished building photographs by Jacqueline Young. -- Provided by publisher.
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- Message from the title sponsor / Ernest Cholakis -- Foreword / Natan Obed -- Message from the Chair / Ernest Cholakis -- Acknowledgements / Stephen Borys -- Qaumajuq: a name for the Inuit Art Centre / Julia LaFreniere -- Introduction / Stephen Borys -- A journey north / Stephen Borys -- Midnight sunlight / Iwan Baan -- Reflections on a curatorial journey / Darlene Coward Wight -- Origins / Abraham Anghik Ruben -- Multiple visions, magnificent reality / Patricia Bovey -- A vault into visibility : personal reflections / Richard Yaffe -- Museum encounters of another kind : indigenous methodologies of collaboration lead the charge / Julie Nagam -- Selecting an architect for the Inuit Art Centre / George Baird -- Characteristics and context / Michael Malitzan -- Biindigin Biwaasaeyaah and Qaumajuq : conversations and collaborations towards a new Winnipeg Art Gallery / Heather Igloliorte and Julie Nagam -- Winnipeg : a new cultural capital for Inuit art / Pat Feheley -- Moments of kindness and reconciliation : a new understanding for Inuit culture / Barry Appleton -- Building photography -- Contributors.
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- 9781773070032
- Accession Number
- 2022.27
- Call Number
- 06 B65j
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The racial mosaic : a pre-history of Canadian multiculturalism
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25690
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Meister, Daniel R.
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 M58t
- 08.1 M58t reference copy
- Author
- Meister, Daniel R.
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- xvii, 388 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- History-Canada
- Racism
- culture
- Abstract
- Canada is often considered a multicultural mosaic, welcoming to immigrants and encouraging of cultural diversity. Yet this reputation masks a more complex history. In this groundbreaking study of the pre-history of Canadian multiculturalism, Daniel Meister shows how the philosophy of cultural pluralism normalized racism and the entrenchment of whiteness. The Racial Mosaic demonstrates how early ideas about cultural diversity in Canada were founded upon, and coexisted with, settler colonialism and racism, despite the apparent tolerance of a variety of immigrant peoples and their cultures. To trace the development of these ideas, Meister takes a biographical approach, examining the lives and work of three influential public intellectuals whose thoughts on cultural pluralism circulated widely beginning in the 1920s: Watson Kirkconnell, a university professor and translator; Robert England, an immigration expert with Canadian National Railways; and John Murray Gibbon, a publicist for the Canadian Pacific Railway. While they all proposed variants of the idea that immigrants to Canada should be allowed to retain certain aspects of their cultures, their tolerance had very real limits. In their personal, corporate, and government-sponsored works, only the cultures of "white" European immigrants were considered worthy of inclusion. On the fiftieth anniversary of Canada's official policy of multiculturalism, The Racial Mosaic represents the first serious and sustained attempt to detail the policy's historical antecedents, compelling readers to consider how racism has structured Canada's settler-colonial society. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Watson Kirkconnell and scientific racism -- Robert England and Canadian Citizenship -- John Murray Gibbon and folk culture -- Making it official -- Cultural pluralism in wartime.
- ISBN
- 9780228008712
- Accession Number
- P2023.04
- 2024.26
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- 08.1 M58t
- 08.1 M58t reference copy
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Cigarette nation : business, health, and Canadian smokers, 1930-1975
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26246
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Robinson, Daniel J.
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 R56c
- Author
- Robinson, Daniel J.
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- xiii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Canada
- History-Canada
- Health
- Health and Social Development
- Health and wellness
- Drugs
- Marketing
- Abstract
- In the 1950s, the causal link between smoking and lung cancer surfaced in medical journals and mainstream media. Yet the best years for the Canadian cigarette industry were still to come, as per capita cigarette consumption rose steadily in the 1960s and 1970s. In Cigarette Nation, Daniel Robinson examines the vibrant and contentious history of smoking to discover why Canadians continued to light up despite the publicized health risks. Highlighting the prolific marketing and advertising practices that helped make smoking a staple of everyday life, Robinson explores socio-cultural aspects of cigarette use from the 1930s to the 1950s and recounts the views and actions of tobacco executives, government officials, and Canadian smokers as they responded to mounting evidence that cigarette use was harmful. The persistence of smoking owes to such factors as product development, marketing and retailing innovation, public relations, sponsored science, and government inaction. Domestic and international tobacco firms worked to furnish Canadian smokers with hope and doubt - hope in the form of reassuring marketing, as seen with light and mild cigarette brands, and doubt by means of disinformation campaigns attacking medical research and press accounts that aligned cigarettes with serious disease. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, including thousands of industry records released during a landmark tobacco class-action trial in 2015, Cigarette Nation documents in rich detail the history of one of Canada's foremost public health issues. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Depression-era cigarette marketing and smoking culture -- The gift of wartime cigarettes -- The incomparable cigarette -- Taxes, public smoking, and lung cancer -- Hope and doubt -- Marketing bonanza -- The view from Ottawa.
- ISBN
- 9780228005322
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
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- 08.1 R56c
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Brotherhood to nationhood : George Manuel and the making of the modern indian movement
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25528
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- McFarlane, Peter and Manuel, Doreen
- Publisher
- Toronto : Between the Lines
- Call Number
- 07.2 M16a
- Publisher
- Toronto : Between the Lines
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- xxvi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- History
- History-Canada
- Colonialism
- Politics
- Abstract
- George Manuel was the strategist and visionary behind the modern Indigenous movement in Canada. A three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, he laid the groundwork for what would become the Assembly of First Nations and was the founding president of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. Authors Peter McFarlane and Doreen Manuel follow him on a riveting journey from his childhood on a Shuswap reserve through three decades of fierce and dedicated activism. In these pages, an all-new foreword by celebrated Mi'kmaq lawyer and activist Pam Palmater is joined by an afterword from Manuel's granddaughter, land defender Kanahus Manuel. This edition features new photos and previously untold stories of the pivotal roles that the women of the Manuel family played--and continue to play--in the battle for Indigenous rights.
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- 9781771135108
- Accession Number
- P2021.02
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- 07.2 M16a
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Uplift : visual culture at the Banff School of Fine Arts
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25538
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Reichwein, PearlAnn and Wall, Karen
- Publisher
- Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 R27u
- Publisher
- Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- xii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- In 1933, the Banff School was established as a summer outreach program of the University of Alberta, offering a single course in drama. Since then, it has become a renowned cultural destination and educational institution, today known as the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. As PearlAnn Reichwein and Karen Wall recount in this engaging history, over its first four decades the school produced and circulated ideals of culture and liberal democratic citizenship that were intrinsic to the development of modern Canada. Uplift traces the role of the school in shaping arts and cultural education, as reflected in its array of interests from the artistic to the political, economic, and ideological. Situated within Banff National Park, the school and its surroundings combined stunning natural scenery and cultural capital in a symbolic national landscape. In an era of unstable cultural policy and state support for the arts, Uplift offers a nuanced account of one particular engine of nation building and tourism development. It draws attention to the past and present place of fine arts, culture, and the humanities in public education and in Canada's history, exploring what they mean to democracy, citizenship, and a life well lived. -- Provided by publisher
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- Introduction: Artists, Tourists, and Citizens ; Uplifting the People: Extension Education and the Arts ; Branding Banff: Arts Education, Tourism, and Nation Building ; Building a “Campus in the Clouds”: Space, Design, Modernity ; “Wholesome, Understandable Pictures”: Practices of Landscape Painting and Production of Landscapes ; Presence and Portrait: Indigeneity in the Park ; “Leading Artists of the World”: Teachers as Tourist Attractions and Pedagogues ; “Some Paint, Some Tan”: Students Coming to the Mountains ; Conclusion: The Arts, Nature, and Democracy
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- 9780774864527
- Accession Number
- P2022.07
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- 08.3 R27u
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