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Challenging frontiers : the Canadian west
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19801
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Author
- Felske, Lorry W., Beverly Jean Rasporich (editors)
- Publisher
- Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 08.2 Fe33c
- Responsibility
- Edited by Lorry W. Felske and Beverly Jean Rasporich
- Publisher
- Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- vii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Landscapes
- Artists
- Prairies, Canadian
- First Nations
- Mining
- Music
- Immigration
- Chinese
- Politics
- Ranching
- Abstract
- Pertains to Indigenous people and Asian immigration in Western Canada, the Banff Springs Hotel, coal mining in Calgary, Canadian Pacific Hotels, Wilf Carter, Group of Seven, Sid Marty
- Contents
- Introduction : challenging frontiers / Lorry W. Felske and Beverly Rasporich -- Shooting a Saskatoon (whatever happened to the Marlboro man?) / Aritha van Herk -- Regionalism, landscape, and identity in the prairie west / R. Douglas Francis -- Celebrating magpies : artists Paul Kane, Hongeeyesa, and Emily Carr / Ann Davis -- Two months in big bear's camp, 1885 : narratives of "Indian captivity" and the articulation of "race" and "gender" hierarchies in western Canada / Sarah Carter -- Roughing it in the west, or, whose frontier, whose history? / Janice Dickin -- Diversifying our past : finding a place for coal mining communities in Alberta's historic identity / Lorry W. Felske -- When the "wild west" is me : re-viewing cowboys and Indians / Emma LaRocque -- Managing contradictory visions of the west : the great Richardson/Weadick experiment / Robert Seiler and Tamara Seiler -- Hank Snow and the eastern frontiers of western music / Brian Rusted -- Standard prairie grain elevators : a disappearing icon / Geoffrey Simmins -- From somewhere to everywhere to nowhere : the bank of Montreal as a case of vanishing identity / Michael McMordie -- Asian immigration to western Canada / Madeline A. Kalbach -- Chinese-language media across the west / Lloyd Sciban -- The reform and alliance experiments : federal politics in Western Canada / David Taras -- Constancy amid change : ranching in Western Canada / Max Foran -- North/Western aurages : the soundscapes of Allan Gordon Bell / Marcia Jenneth Epstein -- Rodeos, ranching and the house of tea : Irene McCaugherty and Esther Warkov re-invent the West / Beverly Rasporich.
- ISBN
- 1-55238-140-4
- Accession Number
- p2019-21
- Call Number
- 08.2 Fe33c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The other side of gold mountain : glimpses of Chinese pioneer life on the prairies from the Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection = Jin shan dong fang Caoyuan sheng fen Hua ren ...
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14200
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2010
- Author
- Evans, Brian L.
- Publisher
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Libraries
- Call Number
- 08.1 Ev1 Pam
- Author
- Evans, Brian L.
- Responsibility
- Brian L. Evans
- Publisher
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Libraries
- Published Date
- 2010
- Physical Description
- 63 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map, ports. (some col.)
- Subjects
- Banff (townsite)
- Chinese
- Immigration
- Notes
- Chinese paralle title romanized in Pin-yin. Includes bibliographical references. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Bruce Peel Special Collection Library from June to August 2010. Title in English and Chinese ; text in English only
- ISBN
- 9781551951898
- Accession Number
- 12-12-27 70,000
- Call Number
- 08.1 Ev1 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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