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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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Coal dust days in Canmore
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8155
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Author
- Clarke, A.H
- Call Number
- 08.3 C16cdh Pam
- Author
- Clarke, A.H
- Published Date
- 1982
- Physical Description
- p.4-11 : ill., port
- Notes
- In History of the Canadian West, no.2
- Accession Number
- 24000
- Call Number
- 08.3 C16cdh Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Moon cakes in gold mountain : from China to the Canadian Plains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11195
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1991
- Author
- Dawson, John Brian
- Publisher
- Calgary : Detselig Enterprises
- Call Number
- 08.2 D32
- Author
- Dawson, John Brian
- Responsibility
- J. Brian Dawson
- with Patricia M. Dawson
- Publisher
- Calgary : Detselig Enterprises
- Published Date
- 1991
- Physical Description
- 256 p. : ill.
- Subjects
- Chinamans Peak
- Chinese
- Ethnic groups
- Immigration
- Mining
- Notes
- Includes bibliographic references and index
- Accession Number
- 12-14-99 32,000
- Call Number
- 08.2 D32
- Collection
- Archives Library
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