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Dark days at noon : the future of fire

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Medium
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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
Environment
Climate change
Climate
Politics
History
History-Canada
Fire ecology
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.
ISBN
9780228012092
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
04 St8d
Collection
Archives Library
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Decolonizing sport

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Medium
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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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.
Contents
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.
ISBN
9781773636344
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
07.2 F77d
Collection
Archives Library
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Editor's Notebook: Getting Out There

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Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
July/August 2021
Author
Kylie, Aaron
Publisher
Aaron Kylie
Edition
Vol. 141
Call Number
P
Author
Kylie, Aaron
Edition
Vol. 141
Publisher
Aaron Kylie
Published Date
July/August 2021
Physical Description
p.8
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Alberta
Canada
Banff
Banff (townsite)
Banff National Park
Tourism
Travel
Abstract
Editor, Aaron Kylie's address for the issue discussing Banff National Park with an image at the top of Sulphur Mountain.
Notes
"In Canadian Geographic, volume 141, issue 4, July/August, 2021"
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
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Educating the body : a history of physical education in Canada

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Medium
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
Author
Hall, M. Ann, Kidd, Bruce and Vertinsky, Patricia
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Published Date
2024
Physical Description
xvi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
Politics
History
History-Canada
Education
Sport
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.
Contents
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.
ISBN
9781487508562
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
08.1 H14e
Collection
Archives Library
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Feminism's fight : challenging politics and policies in Canada since 1970

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Publisher
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
Call Number
08.1 C14f
Responsibility
Edited by Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton
Publisher
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
378 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Feminism
Women
Women's Rights
Canada
Equality
Human rights
Sexism
Gender
Abstract
Feminism's Fight explores and assesses feminist strategies to advance gender justice through Canadian federal policy from the 1970s to the present. It tells the crucial story of a transformation in how feminism has been treated by governments and asks how new ways of organizing and emerging alliances can advance a feminist agenda of social and economic equality. This timely collection examines the ideas that feminists have put forward in pursuit of the goal of equality and traces the shifting frameworks employed by governments in response. The authors evaluate changing government orientations through the 1970s to 2020, revealing the negative impact on women's lives and the challenges posed for feminists. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the sexism, misogyny, and related systemic inequalities that remain widespread. Yet it has also revived feminist mobilization and animated calls for a new and comprehensive equality agenda for Canada. Feminism's Fight asks two key questions: What are the lessons from feminist engagement with federal government policy over fifty years? And what kinds of transformative policy demands will achieve the feminist goal of social and economic equality? -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
From the Status of Women to Gender Justice for Women / Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton -- Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act: A Tool of Forced Assimilation / Shelagh Day and Pamela Palmater -- Feminism Meets Macroeconomic Policy / Barbara Cameron -- Never Done: The Challenge of Unpaid Work in the Home / Meg Luxton -- Fifty Years for Farm Women: Gender and Shifting Agricultural Policy Paradigms in Canada / Amber J. Fletcher -- Policy Discourses on Sexual Violence: From the Royal Commission to the (Post-)Neoliberal State / Lise Gotell -- Responsibility and Reproduction after the Royal Commission / Alana Cattapan -- The Royal Commission and Immigration and Citizenship: A Missed Opportunity? / Christina Gabriel -- Securing Income, Sustaining Livelihoods: The Royal Commission, Social Reproduction, and Income Security / Ann Porter -- Strategic, Cynical, and Sinister Representation: Reconceptualizing and Recasting Women’s Representation / Alexandra Dobrowolsky -- The Royal Commission and Unions: Leadership, Equality, Women’s Organizing, and Collective Agency / Linda Briskin -- Equality Instituted? Gender Equity, Women’s Rights, and Human Rights Commissions / Nicole S. Bernhardt -- Federalism for the Twenty-First Century: Feminism and Multilevel Governance in Canada / Tammy Findlay.
ISBN
9780774868037
Accession Number
P2023.11
Call Number
08.1 C14f
Collection
Archives Library
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Hard is the journey : stories of Chinese settlement in British Columbia's Kootenay

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Chow, Lily
Publisher
Qualicum Beach, BC : Caitlin Press
Call Number
08.3 C46h
Author
Chow, Lily
Publisher
Qualicum Beach, BC : Caitlin Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Chinese
Women
Immigration
Canada
History
British Columbia
Abstract
In Hard is the Journey, award-winning historian and researcher Lily Chow shares the difficult history of Chinese Canadians in the Kootenay. She unearths the racism of early newspapers that portrayed Chinese immigrants as dirty, sinister, and lethargic people not fit to live in BC and uncovers the history of the Chinese labourers who completed the deadly work of blazing the Dewdney Trail from Hope to Kootenay only to be dismissed, without any compensation, as soon as the project was completed. She also offers an intimate and inspiring look into the many ways Chinese immigrants survived, finding community, building resilience, and preserving their culture. Piecing together interviews with Kootenay residents and descendents of Chinese immigrants, government records and documents, and early newspaper articles, Chow bravely exposes dark parts of BC's history while shedding light on the struggles but also resilience and untold accomplishments of the Chinese immigrants who risked everything and often lost their lives in building the Canada we know today. Hard is the Journey is Chow's fourth book on the history of Chinese Canadians. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction -- The Wild Horse Creek gold rush: Fisherville -- The key city: Cranbrook -- Once the Farwell town: Revelstoke -- The queen city: Nelson -- The golden city: Rossland -- Afterword.
ISBN
9781773860749
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
08.3 C46h
Collection
Archives Library
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Howdy, I'm John Ware : and this is the story of my cowboy life

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Clough, Ayesha
Rookwood, Hugh
Publisher
Carstairs, Alberta, Canada : Red Barn Books
Call Number
08.1 C62h
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Author
Clough, Ayesha
Rookwood, Hugh
Responsibility
Ayesha Clough (author)
Hugh Rookwood (illustrator)
Publisher
Carstairs, Alberta, Canada : Red Barn Books
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
39 pages : chiefly colour illustrations, colour maps, portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
History
History-Canada
Canada
Racism
Cowboys
Ranching
Horses
Biography
Abstract
Howdy, I’m John Ware is a children's book about Canada's legendary Black cowboy. The story, ideal for ages 6-12, brings the real-life legend to a new generation of kids. Despite experiencing enslavement, war and discrimination, this gifted horseman blazed a trail of kindness, becoming one of Alberta’s most loved and respected pioneer ranchers. (From publisher's website)
ISBN
9781999108786
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
08.1 C62h
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
Websites
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In the name of wild : one family, five years, ten countries, and a new vision of wildness

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Vannini, Phillip and April
Publisher
Vancouver ; Toronto : On Point Press, an imprint of UBC Press
Call Number
02 V33i
Author
Vannini, Phillip and April
Responsibility
With Autumn Vannini
Publisher
Vancouver ; Toronto : On Point Press, an imprint of UBC Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
xii, 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Travel
Wilderness
Wildlife
Canada
Europe
Japan
Iceland
New Zealand
Patagonia
Abstract
Five continents. Ten countries. Twenty Natural World Heritage sites in five years. In the Name of Wild is the story of what happened when one family set out to learn what wildness means to people around the world. What draws us to seek out wild places? Do they mean the same to everyone? Part travelogue, part ethnography, this book takes us on a journey into the lives of the people who call places such as Tasmania, Patagonia, and Iceland home. They reveal that wildness isn't about the absence of people. It's about connections, kinship, and coexistence with the land. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
"Wild" can be a challenging word: Galápagos -- "Wild" can be an adjective: Tasmania -- Wild can be ephemeral: Aotearoa-New Zealand -- Wild can change: South Tyrol -- Wild can be reimagined: Belize -- Wild can be a foreign concept: Japan -- Wild can be alive: Patagonia -- Wild can be photogenic: Iceland -- Wildlife can be us: Thailand -- Wild can be someone's home: Canada.
ISBN
9780774890403
Accession Number
P2023.11
Call Number
02 V33i
Collection
Archives Library
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Intimate integration : a history of the Sixties Scoop and the colonization of Indigenous kinship

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
Stevenson, Allyson D.
Publisher
Toronto, Ontario ; Buffalo, New York ; London, England : University of Toronto Press
Call Number
07.2 S4i
Author
Stevenson, Allyson D.
Publisher
Toronto, Ontario ; Buffalo, New York ; London, England : University of Toronto Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
xv, 328 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indian Act
Canada
Law
Colonialism
Kinship
Genocide
Cultural Genocide
Abstract
Privileging Indigenous voices and experiences, Intimate Integration documents the rise and fall of North American transracial adoption projects, including the Adopt Indian and Me´tis Project and the Indian Adoption Project. The author argues that the integration of adopted Indian and Me´tis children mirrored the new direction in post-war Indian policy and welfare services. She illustrates how the removal of Indigenous children from Indigenous families and communities took on increasing political and social urgency, contributing to what we now call the "Sixties Scoop." Intimate Integration utilizes an Indigenous gender analysis to identify the gendered operation of the federal Indian Act and its contribution to Indigenous child removal, over-representation in provincial child welfare systems, and transracial adoption. Specifically, women and children's involuntary enfranchisement through marriage, as laid out in the Indian Act, undermined Indigenous gender and kinship relationships. Making profound contributions to the history of settler-colonialism in Canada, Intimate Integration sheds light on the complex reasons behind persistent social inequalities in child welfare. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
Bleeding heart of settler colonialism -- Adoptive kinship and belonging -- Rehabilitating the "subnormal [Me´tis] family" in Saskatchewan -- Green Lake Children's Shelter experiment : from institutionalization to integration in Saskatchewan -- Post-war liberal citizenship and the colonization of Indigenous kinship -- Child welfare as system and lived experience -- Saskatchewan's Indigenous resurgence and the restoration of Indigenous kinship and caring -- Confronting cultural genocide in the 1980s -- Conclusion : Intimate Indigenization -- Epilogue : Coming home -- Appendix: Road allowance communities in Saskatchewan.
ISBN
9781487520458
Accession Number
P2023.12
Call Number
07.2 S4i
Collection
Archives Library
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Liquor and the liberal state : drink and order before prohibition

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Medium
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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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.
Contents
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.
ISBN
9780774867177
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
08.1 M29l
Collection
Archives Library
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