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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

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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
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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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Bucking conservatism : alternative stories of Alberta from the 1960s and 1970s

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25529
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press
Call Number
08.1 B38b
Responsibility
Edited by Leon Crane Bear, Larry Hannant, and Karissa Robyn Patton
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
xxx, 333 pages; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Politics
History of Alberta
Indigenous
Feminism
Activism
Resistance
Heteropatriarchy
Environmentalism
Abstract
Highlights the individuals and groups who challenged Alberta's conservative status quo in the 1960s and 70s. Drawing on archival records, newspaper articles, police reports, and interviews, the contributors examine Alberta's history through the eyes of Indigenous activists protesting discriminatory legislation and unfulfilled treaty obligations, women and lesbian and gay persons standing up to the heteropatriarchy, student activists seeking to forge a new democracy, and anti-capitalist environmentalists demanding social change. This book uncovers the lasting influence of Alberta's noncomformists--those who recognized the need for dissent in a province defined by wealth and right-wing politics--and poses thought-provoking questions for contemporary activists. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
Indian Status as the Foundation of Justice / Leon Crane Bear ; Teaching It Our Way: Blue Quills and the Demand for Indigenous Educational Autonomy / Tarisa Dawn Little ; "We are on the outside looking in [. . .]. But we are still Indians": Alberta Indigenous Women Fighting for Status Rights, 1968-85 / Corinne George ; Fed Up with Status Quo: Alberta Women's Groups Challenge Maternalist Ideology and Secure Provincial Funding for Daycare, 1964-71 ; Gay Liberation in Conservative Calgary / Nevena Ivanovic, Kevin Allen, and Larry Hannan ; Contraception, Community, and Controversy: The Lethbridge Birth Control and Information Centre, 1972-78 / Karissa Robyn Patton ; "Ultra Activists" in a "Very Closeted Place": The Early Years of Edmonton's Gay Alliance Toward Equality, 1972-77 / Erin Gallagher-Cohoon ; Daring to Be Left in Social Credit Alberta: Recollections of a Young Democratic Party Activist in the 1960s / Ken Novakowski ; Socialist Survival: The Woodsworth-Irvine Socialist Fellowship and the Preservation of Radical Thought in Alberta / Mack Penner ; Learning Marxism from Tom Flanagan: Left-Wing Activism at the University of Calgary in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s / Larry Hamnant ; Drop In, Hang Out, and Crash: Outreach Programs for Transient Youth and War Resisters in Edmonton / Baldwin Reichwein and PearlAnn Reichwein ; Solidarity on the Cricket Pitch: Confronting South African Apartheid in Edmonton / Larry Hannant ; From Nuclear Disarmament to Raging Granny: A Recollection of Peace Activism and Environmental Advocacy in the 1960s and 1970s / Louise Swift ; The Mill Creek Park Movement and Citizen Activism in Edmonton, 1964-75 / PearlAnn Reichwein and Jan Olson ; "A Lot of Heifer-Dust": Alberta Maverick Marion Nicoll and Abstract Art / Jennifer E. Salahub ; Land and Love in the Rockies: The Poetic Politics of Sid Marty and Headwaters / PearlAnn Reichwein ; Death of a Delta / Tom Radford ; Conclusion: Bucking Conservatism, Then and Now / Karissa Robyn Patton and Mack Penner
ISBN
9781771992572
Accession Number
P2021.03
Call Number
08.1 B38b
Collection
Archives Library
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Camp 4 : recollections of a Yosemite rockclimber

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
Roper, Steve
Publisher
Seattle : Mountaineers
Call Number
02.8 R68c
Author
Roper, Steve
Publisher
Seattle : Mountaineers
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
255 pages : illustrations, color map ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Climbing
Yosemite Valley
United States of America
History
Biography
Abstract
In the 1960s, California's Yosemite Valley was the center of the rock climbing universe. Young nonconformists -- many of them the finest rock climbers in the world -- channeled their energy toward the largely untouched walls and cracks. Soon climbers from around the globe were coming to Camp 4 -- gathering spot for the creators of the "Golden Age" of Yosemite climbing -- to see whgat all the fuss is about. -- From the back cover
Notes
Winner of the 1994 Banff Mountain Book Festival for Mountain Literature
ISBN
9780898863819
Accession Number
P2023.19
Call Number
02.8 R68c
Collection
Archives Library
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Canada's legal pasts : looking forward, looking back

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25706
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
Call Number
08.1 C15c
Responsibility
Edited by Lyndsay Campbell, Ted McCoy, and Me´lanie Me´thot
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
x, 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
History
Law
Human rights
Canada
Research
Abstract
Canada's Legal Pasts presents new essays on a range of topics and episodes in Canadian legal history, provides an introduction to legal methodologies, shows researchers new to the field how to locate and use a variety of sources, and includes a combined bibliography arranged to demonstrate best practices in gathering and listing primary sources. It is an essential welcome for scholars who wish to learn about Canada's legal pasts--and why we study them. Telling new stories--about a fishing vessel that became the subject of an extraordinarily long diplomatic dispute, young Northwest Mounted Police constables subject to an odd mixture of police discipline and criminal procedure, and more--this book presents the vibrant evolution of Canada's legal tradition. Explorations of primary sources, including provincial archive records that suggest how Quebec courts have been used in interfamilial conflict, newspaper records that disclose the details of bigamy cases, and penitentiary records that reveal the details of the lives and legal entanglements of Canada's most marginalized people, show the many different ways of researching and understanding legal history. This is Canadian legal history as you've never seen it before. Canada's Legal Pasts dives into new topics in Canada's fascinating history and presents practical approaches to legal scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars in collection essential for researchers at all levels. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Foreword : a student's take on Canada's legal pasts / Nick Austin -- Introduction : Canada's legal pasts : looking forward, looking back / Ted McCoy, Lyndsay Campbell, and Me´lanie Me´thot -- Family defamation in the Quebec Civil courts : the view from the archives / Eric H. Reiter -- Writing penitentiary history / Ted McCoy -- Analyzing bigamy cases without going to the archives : it is possible / Me´lanie Me´thot -- Trial pamphlets and newspaper accounts / Lyndsay Campbell -- The last voyage of the Frederick Gerring, Jr. / Christopher Shorey -- The textbook edition of James Kent's Commentaries used in Canada v. Gerring / Angela Fernandez -- Empire's law : archives and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council / Catharine MacMillan -- Practising law in the "lawyerless" colony of New France / Alexandra Havrylyshyn -- Poursuivre son mari en justice: femmes marie´es et coutume de Paris devant la Cour du banc du roi de Montre´al (1795-1830) / Jean-Philippe Garneau -- Getting their man : the NWMP as accused in the territorial criminal court in the Canadian North-West, 1876-1903 / Shelley A.M. Gavigan -- Sex discrimination in Canadian law : from equal citizenship to human rights law / Dominique Cle´ment -- Legal-historical writing for the Canadian Prairies : past, present, future / Louis A. Knafla.
ISBN
9781773851167
Accession Number
P2023.07
Call Number
08.1 C15c
Collection
Archives Library
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