topic:"Alberta centennial" found 9 records - Research Collections

Alberta formed, Alberta transformed

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

Published Date: 2006

Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta Press ; Calgary : University of Calgary Press

Call Number: 08.1 P29a Vol. 1

Responsibility: edited by Payne, Michael and Wetherell, Donald and Cavanaugh, Catherine with Alberta 2005 Centennial History Society

Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta Press ; Calgary : University of Calgary Press

Published Date: 2006

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

Subjects: Alberta; Alberta centennial

Abstract: 'Thirty essays in 2 volumes represent a wide range of voices and points of view. Moving beyond a straightforward commemorative history, the contributors often tackle contentious issues and question previous, more conventional approaches and assumptions. Each essay represents a snapshot in time, focusing on a person, a trend or an event that has played a significant part in shaping Alberta. Contains maps, archival photographs and illustrations, and explanatory sidebars. Vol. 1 covers from human beginnings to Alberta's inauguration as a province in 1905, vol. 2 takes readers through the 20th century up to the 2005 centennial.' - Aurora

Contents: v. 1.: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 13,001 years ago: human beginnings in Alberta / John W. Ives -- The day the dry snow fell: the record of a 7,627-year-old disaster / Alwynne B. Beaudoin and Gerald A. Oetelaar -- Buffalo and dogs: the prehistoric lifeway of aboriginal people on the Alberta Plains, 1004-1005 / Trevor R. Peck and J. Rod Vickers -- The never-ending journey of Anthony Henday / Eldon Yellowhorn -- "With tears, shrieks, and howling of despair": the smallpox epidemic of 1781-1782 / Ted Binnema -- Fatal quarrels and fur trade rivalries: a year of living dangerously on the North Saskatchewan 1806-07 / Gerhard J. Ens -- Economy must now be the order of the day: George Simpson and the reorganization of the fur trade to 1826 / Heather Devine -- On the edge of the great transformation: 1857-58 / Frits Pannekoek -- 1870: a year of violence and change? Hugh A. Dempsey -- "A better life with honour": treaty 6 (1876) and treaty 7 (1877) with Alberta First Nations / Sarah Carter and Walter Hildebrandt -- Too many scared people: Alberta and the 1885 north-west rebellion / Bill Waiser -- 1899 and the political economy of Canada's north-west: Treaty 8 as a compact to share and peacefully co-exist / Brian Calliou -- 1904-1905: Alberta Proclaimed / David Hall.

Notes: Volume One and Volume Two

ISBN: 1552381943

Accession Number: 7871

Call Number: 08.1 P29a Vol. 1

Collection: Archives Library

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Alberta formed, Alberta transformed

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26583

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

Published Date: 2006

Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta Press ; Calgary : University of Calgary Press

Call Number: 08.1 P29a Vol. 2

Responsibility: edited by Payne, Michael and Wetherell, Donald and Cavanaugh, Catherine with Alberta 2005 Centennial History Society

Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta Press ; Calgary : University of Calgary Press

Published Date: 2006

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

Subjects: Alberta; Alberta centennial

Abstract: 'Thirty essays in 2 volumes represent a wide range of voices and points of view. Moving beyond a straightforward commemorative history, the contributors often tackle contentious issues and question previous, more conventional approaches and assumptions. Each essay represents a snapshot in time, focusing on a person, a trend or an event that has played a significant part in shaping Alberta. Contains maps, archival photographs and illustrations, and explanatory sidebars. Vol. 1 covers from human beginnings to Alberta's inauguration as a province in 1905, vol. 2 takes readers through the 20th century up to the 2005 centennial.' - Aurora

Contents: v. 2. The dance of the grizzly bear: boom to bust, 1912-13 / David C. Jones -- Enthusiasm embattled: 1916 and the great war / Duff Crerar -- 1919: "a year of extraordinary difficulty" / David Bright -- From idealism to pragmatism: 1923 in Alberta / Bradford J. Rennie -- 1929: "things are seldom what they seem" / Donald Smith -- 1935: the social credit revolution / Alvin Finkel -- 1948: ghosts and dreams / Patricia Myers -- 1947: the making of modern Alberta / David Breen -- 1951: oil's magic wand / Doug Owram -- 1955 -- celebrating together, celebrating apart: Albertans and their golden jubilee / Frances Swyripa -- 1967: embracing the future ... at arm's length / Max Forna -- Alberta's quiet revolution: 1973 and the early Lougheed years / James H. Marsh -- 1980: duel of the decade / Tammy Nemeth -- 1986: the bloom comes off the wild rose province / Herb Emery -- 1996 -- two Albertas: rural and urban trajectories / Roger Epp -- Alberta in 2004 / David Taras -- Looking back in Alberta history: reflections in a rear-view mirror / Michael Payne. Donald Wetherell, and Catherine Cavanaugh -- Contributors -- Index.

Notes: Volume One and Volume Two

ISBN: 1552381943

Accession Number: 7871

Call Number: 08.1 P29a Vol. 2

Collection: Archives Library

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The Alberta 100 : a centennial countdown [DVD video]

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Medium: Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)

Published Date: 2005

Publisher: Calgary : Pyramid Productions

Call Number: 08.2 Al1t DVD

Responsibility: hosted by Ron Maclean

Publisher: Calgary : Pyramid Productions

Published Date: 2005

Physical Description: 1 digital video disc : 1 sd., col. with b&w sequences

Medium: Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)

Subjects: Alberta centennial

Notes: 100 notable personalities of Alberta, including: Catharine Robb Whyte; Pat Brewster; Beckie Scott; Ed Whelen; John Ware: Bob Edwards; W.O. Mitchell; Andy Russell; Senator Matthew Cochrane; Grant MacEwan; Ken Read; Mary Schaffer Warren; Frank Oliver; Wilf Carter: Peter Lougheed; Ian Tyson; Crowfoot; Lois Hole

Accession Number: 7809

Call Number: 08.2 Al1t DVD

Collection: Archives Library

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Summit Canister

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Date: 2005

Material: plastic; paper

Catalogue Number: 105.02.1175

Description: A plastic container with a white paper lid surrounded by black plastic. There is a small round hole in the centre of the paper lid. On the front is black lettering (outlined in black) “ALBERTA CENTENNIAL MOUNTAIN EXPEDITION”. There is a black line simulating mountains over the writing, and the sole…

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Title: Summit Canister

Date: 2005

Material: plastic; paper

Dimensions: 17.0 x 9.0 cm

Description: A plastic container with a white paper lid surrounded by black plastic. There is a small round hole in the centre of the paper lid. On the front is black lettering (outlined in black) “ALBERTA CENTENNIAL MOUNTAIN EXPEDITION”. There is a black line simulating mountains over the writing, and the sole of a boot, viewer’s left with “AC” printed, then a simulated mountain with “2005” and on the heel of the sole an “E”. On the bottom of the container there is a raised triangle with a “2” in the middle, underneath that, “PRETIUM”, and underneath that , viewer’s right “16”.

Subject: commemorative; sports; mountain climbing; summit; Alberta Centennial Mountain Expedition

Credit: Gift of Alpine Club of Canada, Canmore, 2010

Catalogue Number: 105.02.1175

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My forty-five years on the campus

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

Published Date: 1958

Author: Lister, Reg

Publisher: [Edmonton] University of Alberta

Call Number: 05 L69m

Author: Lister, Reg

Responsibility: Edited for publication by Elsie Park Gowan.

Publisher: [Edmonton] University of Alberta

Published Date: 1958

Physical Description: 75 pages : portraits ; 23 cm

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

Subjects: Autobiography; University of Alberta; Alberta; Alberta centennial; Alberta - History; World War, 1939-1945

Abstract: Complelling autobiography of a man essential to the day-to-day running of the University of Alberta campus with 45 years of tales of from raising his young family in univeristy building basements, student schenanigans, and War efforts.