topic:"History of Alberta" found 4 records - Research Collections

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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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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Ed and Dorothy : Rocky Mountain romance

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2020

Author: Storry, Lea; Carleton, Brian; Carleton, Mike; Carleton, Terry

Publisher: Alberta : Family Lines Publishing

Call Number: 08.3 F21e

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Author: Storry, Lea; Carleton, Brian; Carleton, Mike; Carleton, Terry

Responsibility: Lea Storry; Brian Carleton; Mike Carleton; Terry Carleton

Publisher: Alberta : Family Lines Publishing

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: 307 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: History; History of Alberta; Biography; Wardens; Banff; Banff (residents)

Abstract: The book is a testament to three sons’ love for their parents, Ed and Dorothy. Ed and Dorothy were kind and caring people and raised their family with those values. This book is also a testament to a family’s love of community, the community of Banff National Park.I hope when you read this book, you’ll be immersed in a bygone era that includes the Second World, to the backcountry of Canada’s oldest national park. I hope you will see a way of life that can never be recreated in a place that is ever-changing but will always be home to Ed and Dorothy. (Edited down from Our Family Lines website)

Contents: Foreward; Introduction; Chapter One: Edmond Clarence Carleton; Chapter Two: Calgary Highlanders; Chapter Three: Dorothy Eileen (nee Sweetzer) Fowler; Chapter Four: Exercising War; Chapter Five: Looking Towards the Future; Chapter Six: Mr. and Mrs. Ed Carleton; Chapter Seven: "Home" in Banff; Chapter Eight: This is backcountry living; Chapter Nine: Nature reels; Chapter Ten: Tragedies and changes; Chapter Eleven: A time capsule, royalty and lots of wildlife; Chapter Twelve: A year in the life of a warden and his family; Chapter Thirteen: Conservation and concerns; Chapter Fourteen: Making new memories while remembering the old; Chapter Fifteen: Life moves on; Endnotes; Acknowledgements; Sources

ISBN: 9780991707522

Accession Number: 2021.06

Call Number: 08.3 F21e

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

Websites

https://ourfamilylines.ca/rocky-mountain-romance-a-memoir/

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A stunning backdrop : Alberta in the movies, 1917-1960

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25734

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2022

Author: Graham, Mary

Publisher: Calgary, AB : Bighorn Books, an imprint of University of Calgary Press

Call Number: 06.3 G76a

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Author: Graham, Mary

Publisher: Calgary, AB : Bighorn Books, an imprint of University of Calgary Press

Published Date: 2022

Physical Description: xi, 401 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 28 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Film making; Canadian Rockies; History of Alberta; History-Canada; Indigenous

Abstract: The unconventional, untold story of Alberta's film history, defined by the terrible beautify of its pristine landscape, surprisingly important to Hollywood, and recaptured in lost or ignored Indigenous perspectives and stories. Alberta's magnificent landscape has served as a popular location for filmmakers since the dawn of the movie industry. For film pioneers, Alberta embodied the myth of the Great Northwest, a primeval mountain wilderness and the last western frontier. In turn, Canadian entrepreneurs were eager for American studios to drape Alberta landscape across the backdrop of their movies, an advertisement without equal. A Stunning Backdrop is the untold story of six rollicking decades of filmmaking in Alberta. Mary Graham draws on twelve years of exhaustive research to reveal a film history like no other, illuminating the deep importance of the province to Hollywood. She explores the often friendly partnerships between American filmmakers and Indigenous communities, particularly the Stoney Nakoda, that provided economic opportunities and, in many cases, allowed them to retain religious and cultural practices banned by the Canadian government. Beautifully illustrated with archival photography and featuring century-old set stills alongside photographs of the locations as they appear today, by Jean Becq, Solomon Chiniquay, Jeff Wallace, George Webber, and Paul Zizka, A Stunning Backdrop is the fascinating, often surprising, always unconventional story of film in a province whose rugged, compelling, multifarious, terribly beautiful landscape continues to inspire filmmakers and audiences around the world.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Early Alberta movie landscapes today -- Into the (civilized) wilds -- Snow! snow! snow! -- A rabble rouser and a dreamer -- Father of the western -- In the shadow of Castle Mountain -- Royalty, great chiefs, ranches, and rodeos -- The joy girl and others of a gregarious nature -- Mountain men -- Building the railway, movie style -- War and propaganda -- Out of the coma -- Rodeo westerns of the atomic age -- Selling sex and nostalgia -- Making Rocky Mountain movie magic -- The power of revision -- List of movies made in Alberta, 1917-1960

Notes: Mary Graham received the Whyte Museum's Lillian Agnes Jones Fellowship, 2021-2022.

ISBN: 9781773853932

Accession Number: P2023.20

Call Number: 06.3 G76a

Collection: Archives Library

Websites

https://www.whyte.org/fellowship

https://press.ucalgary.ca/books/9781773853932/

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