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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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Bucking conservatism : alternative stories of Alberta from the 1960s and 1970s
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25529
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 B38b
- Responsibility
- Edited by Leon Crane Bear, Larry Hannant, and Karissa Robyn Patton
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- xxx, 333 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Politics
- History of Alberta
- Indigenous
- Feminism
- Activism
- Resistance
- Heteropatriarchy
- Environmentalism
- Abstract
- Highlights the individuals and groups who challenged Alberta's conservative status quo in the 1960s and 70s. Drawing on archival records, newspaper articles, police reports, and interviews, the contributors examine Alberta's history through the eyes of Indigenous activists protesting discriminatory legislation and unfulfilled treaty obligations, women and lesbian and gay persons standing up to the heteropatriarchy, student activists seeking to forge a new democracy, and anti-capitalist environmentalists demanding social change. This book uncovers the lasting influence of Alberta's noncomformists--those who recognized the need for dissent in a province defined by wealth and right-wing politics--and poses thought-provoking questions for contemporary activists. -- Provided by publisher
- Contents
- Indian Status as the Foundation of Justice / Leon Crane Bear ; Teaching It Our Way: Blue Quills and the Demand for Indigenous Educational Autonomy / Tarisa Dawn Little ; "We are on the outside looking in [. . .]. But we are still Indians": Alberta Indigenous Women Fighting for Status Rights, 1968-85 / Corinne George ; Fed Up with Status Quo: Alberta Women's Groups Challenge Maternalist Ideology and Secure Provincial Funding for Daycare, 1964-71 ; Gay Liberation in Conservative Calgary / Nevena Ivanovic, Kevin Allen, and Larry Hannan ; Contraception, Community, and Controversy: The Lethbridge Birth Control and Information Centre, 1972-78 / Karissa Robyn Patton ; "Ultra Activists" in a "Very Closeted Place": The Early Years of Edmonton's Gay Alliance Toward Equality, 1972-77 / Erin Gallagher-Cohoon ; Daring to Be Left in Social Credit Alberta: Recollections of a Young Democratic Party Activist in the 1960s / Ken Novakowski ; Socialist Survival: The Woodsworth-Irvine Socialist Fellowship and the Preservation of Radical Thought in Alberta / Mack Penner ; Learning Marxism from Tom Flanagan: Left-Wing Activism at the University of Calgary in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s / Larry Hamnant ; Drop In, Hang Out, and Crash: Outreach Programs for Transient Youth and War Resisters in Edmonton / Baldwin Reichwein and PearlAnn Reichwein ; Solidarity on the Cricket Pitch: Confronting South African Apartheid in Edmonton / Larry Hannant ; From Nuclear Disarmament to Raging Granny: A Recollection of Peace Activism and Environmental Advocacy in the 1960s and 1970s / Louise Swift ; The Mill Creek Park Movement and Citizen Activism in Edmonton, 1964-75 / PearlAnn Reichwein and Jan Olson ; "A Lot of Heifer-Dust": Alberta Maverick Marion Nicoll and Abstract Art / Jennifer E. Salahub ; Land and Love in the Rockies: The Poetic Politics of Sid Marty and Headwaters / PearlAnn Reichwein ; Death of a Delta / Tom Radford ; Conclusion: Bucking Conservatism, Then and Now / Karissa Robyn Patton and Mack Penner
- ISBN
- 9781771992572
- Accession Number
- P2021.03
- Call Number
- 08.1 B38b
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Finding directions west : readings that locate and dislocate Western Canada's past
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25531
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 c71f
- Responsibility
- Edited by George Colpitts and Heather Devine
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- ix, 266 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- History-Canada
- History of Alberta
- Migration
- Colonialism
- Feminism
- Banff Centre
- Women's Rights
- Abstract
- Western Canada has figured historically as a focus point for new directions in human thought and action, migrations of the mind and body, and personal journeys of both a substantial and transcendental nature. The essays in Finding Directions West interrogate the meaning of those journeys, their reality, their memory, and their constructed identities within Western Canada itself. The book situates landscapes and peopled places in the West within the larger study of Western Canada and its transborder relationships. It draws scholars from a vareity of disciplines within history, from gender studies, to museum studies, to environmental history, in order to examine afresh Western Canada as a place for finding new directions in the human experience. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Partial List of Contents: Colonizer or Compatriot?: A Reassessment of Reveren John McDougall / Will Pratt ; "The Country Was Looking Wonderful": Insights on 1930s Alberta from the Travel Diary of Mary Beatrice Rundle / Sterling Evans ; Mountain Capitalists, Space, and Modernity at the Banff School of Fine Arts / PearlAnn Reichwein and Karen Wall
- ISBN
- 9781552388808
- Accession Number
- P2021.05
- Call Number
- 07.2 c71f
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Hudson's Bay Company : Edmonton House journals, correspondence, and reports, 1806-1821
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25541
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : Historical Society of Alberta
- Call Number
- 08.2 B51t
- Responsibility
- Edited with an introduction by Ted Binnema and Gerhard J. Ens
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : Historical Society of Alberta
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 530 pages
- Series
- Edmonton House Journals
- Abstract
- In 1795 the Hudson's Bay Company established Edmonton House and the North West Company Fort Augustus a few kilometres downstream from the present day city of Edmonton. Although both posts were moved several times, they operated side by side as the major administrative, trade, and provisioning centres on the North Saskatchewan River from 1795 to 1821, when the companies merged. The post journals and district reports from Edmonton House for the period from 1806 to 1821 are reproduced verbatim in this volume. Long available only to researchers with access to the collections of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, these journals and district reports provide a detailed day-by-day account of the operations of Edmonton House during this crucial period. They provide direct insight into the Aboriginal, social, and economic history of the region, and new information on the foundation of the Red River settlement adn the struggle for control of the trade in the Athabasca region. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Edmonton House Post Journals, 1806-1921 ; District Reports, 1816-1821
- ISBN
- 9780929123202
- Accession Number
- P2022.08
- Call Number
- 08.2 B51t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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A frontier guide to the Dewdney Trail : Hope to Rock Creek
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20166
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1969?
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alta. : Frontier Publishing
- Edition
- Frontier Book No. 19
- Call Number
- 08.2 F92a
- Edition
- Frontier Book No. 19
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alta. : Frontier Publishing
- Published Date
- 1969?
- Physical Description
- 56 pages.
- Subjects
- Travel
- History
- History of Alberta
- Abstract
- "Highway No.3 is a ribbon of concrete that winds through some of the most dramatic scenery in Western Canada. At times it courses between valley walls lush with vegetation and history, adn at others it climbs mountain sides to meander gracefully over the top of the world. It was originally called the Dewdney Trail and it ran from Hope, through Rock Creek and on to Wild Horse Camp, 6 miles northeast of Cranbrook. Today, with a few variations of route, it follows the old trail and has become in every sense of the word the New Dewdney Trail. In this, our seventh Frontier Guide, we are attempting to trace the story adn the history of both the old trail and the new , from Hope to Rock Creek. In companion volumes, we hope to complete the trail from Rock Creek to Salmo adn from Salmo to Wild Horse."
- Notes
- Abstract taken from publication directly
- Accession Number
- 3069 a
- Call Number
- 08.2 F92a
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- Archives Library
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Long road home : centennial commemoration of Jasper's Mountain Metis
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14412
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014?
- Publisher
- Alberta : People & Peaks Productions ; Willmore Wilderness Foundation
- Call Number
- 07.2 W68l DVD
1 website
- Responsibility
- Willmore Wilderness Foundation ; collaborative production with the Mountain Metis Centre
- Publisher
- Alberta : People & Peaks Productions ; Willmore Wilderness Foundation
- Published Date
- 2014?
- Physical Description
- 1 digital video disc : sound, colour ; 12 cm.
- Subjects
- Jasper National Park
- Metis
- Willmore Wilderness Provincial Park
- Horses
- Pack trips
- History
- History of Alberta
- Notes
- Summary: In 1806 Metis guide Jacco Findlay was the first to blaze a packtrail over Howse Pass and the Continental Divide. He made a map for Canadian explorer David Thompson, who followed one year later. Jacco left the North West Company and became the first "Freeman" or "Otipemisiwak" in the Athabasca Valley. In 1907 the Canadian Government passed an Order in Council for the creation of the "Jasper Forest Park" enforcing the evacuation of the Metis in the Athabasca Valley. By 1909 guns were seized causing the community to surrender its homeland including Jacco's descendants. Six Metis families made their exodus after inhabiting the area for a century. This documentary, focuses on a 14-day return trip of the descendants of the evicted families, as well as Jacco's progeny. Storied are shared through the voices of family members as they reveal their struggle to preserve traditions and culture as Mountain Metis.
- ISBN
- 829982125729
- Call Number
- 07.2 W68l DVD
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Website for film and Mountain Metis - Otipemisiwak
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Mwakwa talks to the loon : a cree story for children
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15481
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Auger, Dale
- Publisher
- Surrey, BC : Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd
- Call Number
- 07.1 Au1m reference copy
- 07.1 Au1m copy 2
- Author
- Auger, Dale
- Publisher
- Surrey, BC : Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 17 unnumbered plates : ill
- Subjects
- History of Alberta
- Cree
- Folklore
- Notes
- Includes bibliography Includes some text in cree
- ISBN
- 9781894974325
- Accession Number
- 2017.8669
- Call Number
- 07.1 Au1m reference copy
- 07.1 Au1m copy 2
- Location
- Reference Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Railways in southern Alberta
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20076
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1973
- Author
- Bowman, R.F.P.
- Publisher
- Lethbridge, Alta. : Lethbridge Historical Society
- Call Number
- 08.2 B67r Pam
- Author
- Bowman, R.F.P.
- Responsibility
- R.F.P. Bowman
- Publisher
- Lethbridge, Alta. : Lethbridge Historical Society
- Published Date
- 1973
- Physical Description
- 40 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 28 cm.
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history of the southern Alberta railways, written as a labor of love from Lethbridge local, R.F.P. Bowman. The intent of the publication was to record the history of the early local railway, in an effort to preserve the history before it was to be forgotten. Author R.F.P. Bowman, worked to commemorate the events that were able to elevate the area of Lethbridge, Alberta from its infancy into a state of maturity.
- Contents
- Chapter I: The beginnings (pg. 7)
- Chapter II: The Galts (pg. 9)
- Chapter III: Enter Canadian Pacific (pg. 13)
- Chapter IV: The Canadian Pacific extends (pg. 24)
- Chapter V: Other efforts (pg. 27)
- Chapter VI: Passenger trains in the past tense (pg. 31)
- Chapter VII: Freight - the railway's main diet (pg. 34)
- Chapter VIII: The Lethbridge division (pg. 38)
- Accession Number
- 3069 a
- Call Number
- 08.2 B67r Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Canadian Historical Review
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25083
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- June 1970
- Author
- Brown, R, Craig (editor)
- Cross, Michael (associate editor)
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 08.5 R26ca
1 website
- Responsibility
- Craig R Brown (editor)
- Michael Cross (associated editor)
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- June 1970
- Physical Description
- 246 pages
- Series
- Volume LI No 2
- Subjects
- Railroads - Alberta
- Railway routes
- Railways
- History
- History of Alberta
- Canadian Northern Railway
- Contents
- Sitting Bull : Indian WIthout a Country Arthur Puttee and the Liberal Party : 1899 - 1904 The Winnipeg General Strike, Collective Bargaining, and the One Big Union Issue The Canadian Northern Railway : The West’s Own Product Contributors Reviews Recent publications relating to Canada Books received Notes and comments
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 08.5 R26ca
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Canadian Historical Review website via University of Toronto Press
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Rails over the mountains : exploring the railway heritage of Canada's western mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25285
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Brown, Ron
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dundurn
- Call Number
- 08.3 B78r
1 website
- Author
- Brown, Ron
- Responsibility
- Ron Brown
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dundurn
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 156 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Railways
- History
- History of Alberta
- History-Canada
- Rocky Mountains
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
- Abstract
- Ride the rails through Canada’s western mountains to explore the many vestiges of the region’s spectacular and surprising railway heritage. Here is where grand railway hotels were built to attract tourists to the West’s beautiful scenery and bring profit to the railway lines as well. Rustic stations added to the allure. The challenges of conquering the mountains resulted in some of Canada’s most ingenious feats of engineering, such as spiral tunnels and soaring trestles (one of which was featured in The Amazing Race Canada). Relive the days of rail on a steam train, the luxurious Rocky Mountaineer, or one of VIA Rail’s mountain journeys. Outdoor enthusiasts can follow the abandoned roadbeds of Canada’s more spectacular rail trails, like the legendary Kettle Valley Railway. Also included are some of Canada’s most extensive railway museums, which have helped to bring this vanished era back to life. (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- The rails arrive -- Conquering the mountains : the tunnels and bridges -- The faces of the railways : the heritage railway stations -- Life on the line : the railway towns -- The dream castles : western Canada's railway hotels -- Railway structures : a forgotten heritage -- Celebrating the heritage : the railway museums -- The rail trails -- All aboard.
- ISBN
- 9781459733596
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.3 B78r
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Publisher's website
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