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Dominion : the railway and the rise of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26203
- Medium
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780385698726
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 08.5 B68d
- Collection
- Archives Library
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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.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781773070032
- Accession Number
- 2022.27
- Call Number
- 06 B65j
- Collection
- Archives Library
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