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1950s Canada : politics and public affairs

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25702
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Wiseman, Nelson
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Call Number
08.1 W75c
Author
Wiseman, Nelson
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
History
1950s
Politics
Public Affairs
Abstract
While the 1950s in Canada were years of social conformity, it was also a time of political, economic, and technological change. Against a background of growing prosperity, federal and provincial politics became increasingly competitive, intergovernmental relations became more contentious, and Canada's presence in the world expanded. The life expectancy of Canadians increased as the social pathologies of poverty, crime, and racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination were in retreat. 1950s Canada illuminates the fault lines around which Canadian politics and public affairs have revolved. Chronicling the themes and events of Canadian politics and public affairs during the 1950s, Nelson Wiseman reviews social, economic, and cultural developments during each year of the decade, focusing on developments in federal politics, intergovernmental relations, provincial affairs, and Canada's role in the world. The book examines Canada's subordinate relationship first with Britain and then the United States, the interplay between Quebec's distinct society and the rest of Canada, and the regional tensions between the inner Canada of Ontario and Quebec and the outer Canada of the Atlantic and Western provinces. Through this record of major events in the politics of the decade, 1950s Canada sheds light on the rapid altering of the fabric of Canadian life.-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction: reflections on studying Canada of the 1950s -- 1950 -- 1951 -- 1952 -- 1953 -- 1954 -- 1955 -- 1956 -- 1957 -- 1958 -- 1959 -- Conclusion: politics and public affairs in the 1950s
ISBN
9781487555450
Accession Number
P2023.10
Call Number
08.1 W75c
Collection
Archives Library
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Alpine rising : Sherpas, Baltis, and the triumph of local climbers in the great ranges

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26251
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2024
Author
McDonald, Bernadette
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
Call Number
01.1 M14a
Author
McDonald, Bernadette
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
Published Date
2024
Physical Description
269 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineering
Mountaineers
Mountains
Climbing
Himalaya Mountains
Sherpa
Sherpa-history
Nepal
Abstract
The story of the often unheralded and unrecognized stars of climbing in the Himalaya and the Karakoram: the local inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Pakistan, Tibet, India, and Nepal who have been support staff--porters, cooks, sirdars, and unacknowledged guides--for Western climbers for generations. ALPINE RISING focuses on the experiences and accomplishments of these Sherpas, Baltis, Ladakhis, Hunzas, Astoris, Magars, Bhotias, Rais, and Gurangs. Highlighted climbers range from Raghubir Thapa and Goman Singh who climbed with Albert Mummery in 1895, Ang Tharkay who climbed with Eric Shipton and Maurice Herzog, and Tenzing Norgay who, along with Edmund Hillary, was the first to summit Everest, to today's superstars, Ali Sadpara, Mingma G, Kama Rita, and others -- Provided by publisher.
ISBN
9781680515787
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
01.1 M14a
Collection
Archives Library
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The American Western in Canadian literature

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25703
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Deshaye, Joel
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
Call Number
08.1 D45t
Author
Deshaye, Joel
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
x, 414 pages ; 23 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Nationalism
Literature
Canada
Canada - Western Region
History
American
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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Ancestors : indigenous peoples of Western Canada in historic photographs

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25527
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
Call Number
07.2 C24a
07.2 C24a copy 2
Responsibility
Edited by Sarah Carter and Inez Lightning
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
x, 188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Photography
History
History of Alberta
Western Canada
Colonialism
Abstract
This exhibition catalogue introduces historic photographs of Indigenous peoples of Western Canada from a collection housed at the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections. The publication focuses on the ancestors represented in the collection and how their images continue to generate stories and meanings in the present. The selected photographs contribute to a richer, deeper understanding of the past. There is strength, character, persistence, determination, artwork, humour, dance, celebration, and so much more in the photographs. Some serve as records of cherished landscapes that may have been altered. Others provide links to ancestors: revered leaders, soldiers, healers, thinkers, and orators. The curators hope that the process of identifying the people in these photographs, only begun here, will continue. (Provided by Publisher)
Contents
Foreword / Chief Willie Littlechild ; The nature of the collection and its challenges ; Western Canada in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries ; The aims of the curators ; The Exhibition
ISBN
9781551954547
Accession Number
P2022.05
Call Number
07.2 C24a
07.2 C24a copy 2
Collection
Archives Library
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The arts of Indigenous health and well-being

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25714
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
Call Number
07.2 S9t
Responsibility
Edited by Nancy Van Styvendale, J. D. McDougall, Robert Henry, and Robert Alexander Innes
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Traditions
Indigenous Peoples
Health
Oral History
Medicine
Abstract
Drawing attention to the ways in which creative practices are essential to the health, well-being, and healing of Indigenous peoples, The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being addresses the effects of artistic endeavour on the "good life", or mino-pimatisiwin in Cree, which can be described as the balanced interconnection of physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being. In this interdisciplinary collection, Indigenous knowledges inform an approach to health as a wider set of relations that are central to well-being, wherein artistic expression furthers cultural continuity and resilience, community connection, and kinship to push back against forces of fracture and disruption imposed by colonialism. The need for healing--not only individuals but health systems and practices--is clear, especially as the trauma of colonialism is continually revealed and perpetuated within health systems. The field of Indigenous health has recently begun to recognize the fundamental connection between creative expression and well-being. This book brings together scholarship by humanities scholars, social scientists, artists, and those holding experiential knowledge from across Turtle Island to add urgently needed perspectives to this conversation. Contributors embrace a diverse range of research methods, including community-engaged scholarship with Indigenous youth, artists, Elders, and language keepers. The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being demonstrates the healing possibilities of Indigenous works of art, literature, film, and music from a diversity of Indigenous peoples and arts traditions. This book will resonate with health practitioners, community members, and any who recognize the power of art as a window, an entryway to access a healthy and good life. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
"Art for life's sake": approaches to indigenous arts, health, and well-being / Nancy Van Styvendale, J.D. McDougall, Robert Henry, and Robert Alexander Innes -- What this pouch holds / Gail MacKay -- Baskets, birchbark scrolls, and maps of land: indigenous making practices as oral historiography / Andrea Riley-Mukavetz -- For Kaydence and her cousins: health and happiness in cultural legacies and contemporary contexts / Adesola Akinleye -- Stories and staying power: artmaking as (re)source of cultural resilience and well-being for Panniqtumiut / Alena Rosen -- Healthy connections: facilitator's perceptions of programming linking arts and wellness with indigenous youth / Mamata Pandey, Nuno F. Ribeiro, Warren Linds, Linda M. Goulet, Jo-Ann Episkenew, and Karen Schmidt -- The doubleness of sound in Canada's Indian residential schools / Beverley Diamond -- Kissed by lightning: mediating Haudenosaunee traditional teachings through film / Nicholle Dragone -- Minobimaadiziwinke (creating a good life): native bodies healing / Petra Kuppers and Margaret Noodin -- Body counts: war, pesticides, and queer spirituality in Cherri´e Moraga's Heroes and saints / Desiree Hellegers -- The language of soul and ceremony / Louise Halfe -- Sa^kihiwa^win: land's overflow into the space-tial "otherwise" / Karyn Recollet.
ISBN
9780887559396
Accession Number
P2023.09
Call Number
07.2 S9t
Collection
Archives Library
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At home in the backcountry - celebrating the legendary hospitality and rich heritage of Assiniboine Lodge

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25135
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
May 2020
Author
Ward, Meghan J.
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Ward, Meghan J.
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Published Date
May 2020
Physical Description
p.62 - 69
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Assiniboine, Mount
History
Abstract
Pertains to the history of Mount Assiniboine Lodge, includes chronology of events, summary of Renner family and future plans for the lodge with photographs and ephemera from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Archives & Library
Notes
In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.05, May 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
Websites
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Biographical material, Norman Luxton and McDougall family

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Part Of
Luxton family fonds
Scope & Content
File consists of biographical records and timelines of events pertaining to the lives of Norman Luxton, Elizabeth Chantler McDougall and George McDougall. Includes an obituary article for George McDougall from 1876 [two separate newspaper clippings]; an account of a buffalo round-up in 1909 by Norm…
Date Range
1876
[1930-1940]
1934
[1955]
1960
Reference Code
LUX / III / D / 9
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Textual record
Published record
Part Of
Luxton family fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
LUX
Series
LUX / III / D : Other material
Sous-Fonds
LUX / III : Luxton Family sous-fonds
Accession Number
LUX
Reference Code
LUX / III / D / 9
GMD
Textual record
Published record
Date Range
1876
[1930-1940]
1934
[1955]
1960
Physical Description
0.5 cm of textual records
Scope & Content
File consists of biographical records and timelines of events pertaining to the lives of Norman Luxton, Elizabeth Chantler McDougall and George McDougall. Includes an obituary article for George McDougall from 1876 [two separate newspaper clippings]; an account of a buffalo round-up in 1909 by Norman Luxton; Article "Here's Alberta - People and Places" featuring Norman Luxton; published book "Elizabeth McDougall: Pioneer" by Edna Kells; and a program for an event celebrating the 100th anniversary of George McDougall's appointment as Chairman of the Hudson's Bay Missions, which includes a detailed timeline of the lives of George and Elizabeth McDougall, as well as their son John.
Notes
File also contains one duplicate copy of each item, excluding "Elizabeth McDougall: Pioneer"
Name Access
McDougall, George
Luxton, Norman
McDougall, Elizabeth (Chantler)
Subject Access
Buffalo
Churches
Family
History
Biography
Businesses
Religions
Memorial
Geographic Access
Canada
Alberta
Banff
Pigeon Lake
Calgary
Access Restrictions
Obituary article clippings are fragile, handle with care
Language
English
Conservation
Staples removed from two items in file and replaced with archival clips
Category
Family and personal life
Environment
Land, settlement and immigration
Religions
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Processing Status
Processed
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Boer War scrapbook, Pincher Creek obituaries and correspondence

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Part Of
Luxton family fonds
Scope & Content
File consists of one scrapbook containing two unidentified portraits of men and one family photograph, as well as collected correspondence, newspaper clippings and other documents. Content mostly pertains to the deaths of James Frederick Morden, Robert John Kerr and Ovide Smith of Pincher Creek, Al…
Date Range
1880
1900-1902
1907
1910
1914
Reference Code
LUX / II / C6 / 13 (O.S.)
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Textual record
Scrapbook
Photograph
Print
Newspaper clipping
Part Of
Luxton family fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
LUX
Series
LUX / II / C : Personal
Sous-Fonds
LUX / II : Eleanor Luxton sous-fonds
Sub-Series
LUX / II / C6 : Southern Alberta research project
Accession Number
LUX
Reference Code
LUX / II / C6 / 13 (O.S.)
GMD
Textual record
Scrapbook
Photograph
Print
Newspaper clipping
Date Range
1880
1900-1902
1907
1910
1914
Physical Description
5.5 cm of textual records (1 scrapbook : 119 pages ; 24.5 x 31 cm) -- 3 photographs : 2 b&w cabinet cards and 1 b&w print ; 27.5 x 22 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of one scrapbook containing two unidentified portraits of men and one family photograph, as well as collected correspondence, newspaper clippings and other documents. Content mostly pertains to the deaths of James Frederick Morden, Robert John Kerr and Ovide Smith of Pincher Creek, Alberta while fighting in Honing Spruit, South Africa in 1900 during the Boer War. Contents include condolence letters sent to James Morden's wife, as well as various related newspaper articles and a booklet commemorating the erection of a plaque at Pincher Creek Memorial Hospital in 1902 in their honour. Scrapbook contents also include other obituary articles commemorating James Frederick Morden's father and mother, Albert Milton Morden and Sarah Morden; and Adelaide Maud Hewetson of Pincher Creek.
Notes
Scrapbook possibly compiled by James Frederick Morden's wife (name unknown).
Name Access
Morden, James Frederick
Kerr, Robert John
Smith, Ovide
Morden, Sarah
Morden, Albert Milton
Hewetson, Adelaide Maud
Subject Access
Military
War
Obituary
Memorial
History
Newspaper
Correspondence
Geographic Access
Canada
Alberta
Pincher Creek
South Africa
Access Restrictions
Contains loose materials - handle with caution
Language
English
Category
Military
Title Source
Title based on contnts of file
Processing Status
Processed
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Part Of
Dorothy Wardle fonds
Scope & Content
File consists of 139 pages of handwritten research notes, correspondence, and newspaper clippings, H35 x W30 cm or smaller. File pertains to Dorothy's research on Banff and surrounding area, Parks Canada, Department of the Interior, and the history of the Canadian Rocky Mountains in general. Record…
Date Range
ca. 1870 - ca. 1998
1870s-1880s
ca.1918 - ca. 1960s
1986-1998
1986
1990
1993
1995
1997-1998
Reference Code
M521 / I / A / 3-4
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Newspaper clipping
Private record
Textual record
Part Of
Dorothy Wardle fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
M521 / V75
Series
M521 / I : Dorothy Wardle Personal Papers
Sous-Fonds
M521
Sub-Series
M521 / I / A : Research and Writing
Accession Number
7504
Reference Code
M521 / I / A / 3-4
GMD
Newspaper clipping
Private record
Textual record
Date Range
ca. 1870 - ca. 1998
1870s-1880s
ca.1918 - ca. 1960s
1986-1998
1986
1990
1993
1995
1997-1998
Physical Description
2 cm of textual records (139 pages ; 30 x 35 cm or smaller)
Scope & Content
File consists of 139 pages of handwritten research notes, correspondence, and newspaper clippings, H35 x W30 cm or smaller. File pertains to Dorothy's research on Banff and surrounding area, Parks Canada, Department of the Interior, and the history of the Canadian Rocky Mountains in general. Records were filed in an envelope that was titled "Book Notes." Notable people include James Wardle, J.B. Harkin, Pat Brewster, Arthur Unwin, Dr. Brett, Norman Sanson, and Bill Peyto, among others. Notable places and topics include the organization of the Department of the Interior, the Banff-Windemere Highway, Rocky Mountain Park and Park Wardens, Kootenay National Park fires, coal and precious metal mines (e.g. Bankhead, Silver City), trail riding and hiking, research about James Wardle and his accomplishments, Ya-Ha-Tinda, and various parks (e.g. Glacier, Revelstoke, Elk Island, Kootenay, and Yoho). Other records include a handwritten letter to the Auld family in Scotland (cousins of Sheila Ritchie) with a story about Glenbow and a highland cow from Oban, Scotland; personal reflections on the Banff area and mountains in general; notes that Dorothy took while doing research at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies and the Banff Public Library; and a variety of newspaper clippings.
Notes
Includes request slips and stationary from the archives at the Whyte Museum.
Potentially includes a handwritten list of Dorothy's written works.
Newspaper clippings primarily from the Times Colonist, which is published in Victoria, British Columbia.
Name Access
Wardle, Dorothy
Wardle, James M.
Harkin, J. B. (James Bernard)
Brewster, Pat
Peyto, Bill
Brett, Robert George
Sanson, Norman
Subject Access
Banff
Banff National Park
Banff Public Library
National parks and reserves
Newspaper
Parks Canada
Park policy
Research
Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies
Wardens
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Ya-Ha-Tinda Ranch
Hiking
Community life
History
Mines and mineral resources
Geographic Access
Alberta
Banff
Banff National Park
Bankhead
British Columbia
Canada
Canadian Rocky Mountains
Castle Mountain
Glacier National Park
Kootenay National Park
Silver City
Victoria
Yoho National Park
Scotland
Revelstoke
Language
English
Conservation
Some of the slips of paper are taped together. Was unable to remove them without damaging the materials. May present conservation issues in the future.
Creator
Wardle, Dorothy
Category
Sports, recreation and leisure
Transportation
Politics
Natural resources
Family and personal life
Exploration, discovery and travel
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Title was written on an envelope containing these materials.
Processing Status
Processed
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Brotherhood to nationhood : George Manuel and the making of the modern indian movement

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25528
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
McFarlane, Peter and Manuel, Doreen
Publisher
Toronto : Between the Lines
Call Number
07.2 M16a
Author
McFarlane, Peter and Manuel, Doreen
Publisher
Toronto : Between the Lines
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
xxvi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
History
History-Canada
Colonialism
Politics
Abstract
George Manuel was the strategist and visionary behind the modern Indigenous movement in Canada. A three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, he laid the groundwork for what would become the Assembly of First Nations and was the founding president of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. Authors Peter McFarlane and Doreen Manuel follow him on a riveting journey from his childhood on a Shuswap reserve through three decades of fierce and dedicated activism. In these pages, an all-new foreword by celebrated Mi'kmaq lawyer and activist Pam Palmater is joined by an afterword from Manuel's granddaughter, land defender Kanahus Manuel. This edition features new photos and previously untold stories of the pivotal roles that the women of the Manuel family played--and continue to play--in the battle for Indigenous rights.
ISBN
9781771135108
Accession Number
P2021.02
Call Number
07.2 M16a
Collection
Archives Library
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