topic:"Government" found 2 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: Revealing how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada. In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics—the politics of ethnocide—played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National Dream. " It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Elizabeth Fenn, an opening by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, and explanations of the book’s influence by leading Canadian historians. Called “one of the most important books of the twenty-first century” by the Literary Review of Canada, it was named a “Book of the Year” by The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, the Writers’ Trust, and won the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, among many others. (From University of Regina Press website)

Contents: Bozhoo Indinawemaganidog : An Invitation to All Our Relations by Niigaan James Sinclair; Foreward by Elizabeth A. Fenn; Introduction to the 2019 Edition; Introduction to the 2013 Edition; Chapter 1 - Indigenous Health, Environment and Disease Before Europeans; Chapter 2 - The Early Fur Trade: Territorial Dislocation and Disease; Chapter 3 - Early Competition and the Extension of Trade and Disease, 1740-82; Chapter 4 - Despair and Death during the Fur Trade Wars, 1783-1821; Chapter 5 - Expansion of Settlement and Erosion of Health during the HBC Monopoly, 1821-69; Chapter 6 - Canada, the Northwest and the Treaty Period, 1869-76; Chapter 7 - Treaties, Famine and the Epidemic Transition on the Plains, 1877-82; Chapter 8 - Dominion Administration of Relief, 1883-85; Chapter 9 - The Nadir of Indigenous Health, 1886-91; Conclusion

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Subjects: Travel; Tourism; Automobiles; Highways; British Columbia; Camps; Maps; Government

Abstract: Pertains to highways, camping, and stopping places in British Columbia as of 1929 - includes maps and descriptions

Contents: British Columbia:; Camps and Fire Precautions; Fishing and Hunting; Island Highway; Vancouver Highways; Dewdney Road; Pacific Highways; Yale Road; Cariboo Road; South Trunk Highway; Kamloops-Okanagan Highway; Trans-provincial Highway; Northern Highway; Okanagan-Arrow-Kootenay Lakes; Columbia Valley Highway

URL Notes: Mentioned as a "Special Publication" in this document entitled "Publications of the Government of British Columbia 1811-1947"

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