topic:"Canada - Western Region" found 5 records - Research Collections

Abstract: The first historically broad and in-depth study of the Canadian Western, its relationship to the American genre, and its shifting place within Canada's national and regional literary traditions. The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the genre in curious ways. Canadian Westerns are almost always in conversation with their American cousins, influenced by their tropes and traditions, responding to their politics, and repurposing their structures to create a national literary tradition. The American Western in Canadian Literature examines over a century of the development of the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to evolving literary trends, and to regional, national, and international change. Beginning with Indigenous perspectives on the genre, it moves from early manifestations of the Western in Christian narratives of personal and national growth, and its controversial pulp-fictional popularity in the 1940s, to its postmodern and contemporary critiques, pushing the boundary of the Western to include Northerns, Northwesterns, and post-Westerns in literature, film, and wider cultural imagery. The American Western in Canadian Literature is more than a simple history. It uses genre theory to comment on historical perspectives on nation and region. It includes overviews of Indigenous and settler-colonial critiques of the Western, challenging persistent attitudes to Indigenous people and their traditional territories that are endemic to the genre. It illuminates the way that the Canadian Western enshrines, hagiographies, and ultimately desacralizes aspects of Canadian life, from car culture to extractive industries to assumptions about a Canadian moral high ground. This is a comprehensive, highly readable, and fascinating study of an underexamined genre.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Introduction. Signposts and scales -- Scaling and spacing the genre transnationalism, nationalism, and regionalism -- Tom King's John Wayne Indigenous perspectives on the Western -- Northwestern Cross Christianity and Transnationalism in early Canadian westerns -- From law to outlaw -- Second World War, westerns, and the '40s pulps -- CanLit's postmodern westerns ghosts and the cowgirl riding off into the sunrise -- Degeneration through violence contemporary historical westerns and post-human horsemen -- Conclusion mining the western in the Twenty-First Century.

ISBN: 9781773852676

Accession Number: P2023.07

Call Number: 08.1 D45t

Collection: Archives Library

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The downfall of Temlaham

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

Published Date: 1928

Author: Barbeau, Marius

Publisher: Toronto : The Macmillian Company of Canada Limited

Call Number: 07.2 B23t

Author: Barbeau, Marius

Responsibility: Illustations by A. Y. Jackson, Edwin H. Holgate, W. Langdon Kihn, Emily Carr and Annie D. Savage

Publisher: Toronto : The Macmillian Company of Canada Limited

Published Date: 1928

Physical Description: xii, 253 pages, 1 leaf color frontispiece, color plates 23 cm

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

Subjects: Indigenous; Canada - Western Region; History-Canada; History

Abstract: A novel based on the Skeena River Rebellion of 1886, interwoven with the Gitksan legend of Temlaham.

Accession Number: 3069A

Call Number: 07.2 B23t

Collection: Archives Library

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Hudson's Bay Company : Edmonton House journals, including the Peigan Post, 1826-1834

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

Published Date: 2020

Publisher: Calgary, A.B. : Historical Society of Alberta

Call Number: 08.2 B51h

Responsibility: Edited with an Introduction and Commentaries by Ted Binnema and Gerhard J. Ens

Publisher: Calgary, A.B. : Historical Society of Alberta

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: 562 pages

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

Series: Hudson's Bay Company : Edmonton House Journals

Subjects: Hudson's Bay Company; History; Fur trade; Canada - Western Region; Indigenous

Abstract: As Edmonton House entered its fourth decade, its future as one of the most profitable Hudson's Bay Company posts seeme secure, but were its best days behind it? In the late 1820s, John Rowand, the imposing figure in charge of the fort, struggled to adapt to the rapidly changing circumstances on the northwestern plains. American traders operating from the Missouri River began to draw off much of the trade of the Plains people, even as the relations among and within Plains nations grew ever more acrimonious. Closer to home, and much to Rowand's frustration, Metis families grew increasingly assertive and independent. Rowand could not find peace even within the fort palisades. Company servants chafed under the heavy hand of an increasingly irascible Rowand. The Edmonton House Journals published here offer a fascinating glimpse at the day-to-day life at one of the HBC's most important trading centres. Peigan Post, 1833-1834 John Rowand only reluctantly re-established an HBC presence on the southern plains of Rupert's Land in 1832. Having abandoned Chesterfield House in 1805, and having experienced much frustration with the Bow River Expedition in 1822-1823, the HBC established Peigan Post, on the Bow River, upstream from present-day Calgary in a desperate bid to regain the lucrative trade of the Peigan. The Peigan Post journals of 1833-1834 readily reveal the dangers and risks of trading at the location. -- Fom back cover