topic:"History of Alberta" found 6 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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The Canadian Historical Review

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

Published Date: June 1970

Author: Brown, R, Craig (editor); Cross, Michael (associate editor)

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press

Call Number: 08.5 R26ca

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Author: Brown, R, Craig (editor); Cross, Michael (associate editor)

Responsibility: Craig R Brown (editor); Michael Cross (associated editor)

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press

Published Date: June 1970

Physical Description: 246 pages

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

Series: Volume LI No 2

Subjects: Railroads - Alberta; Railway routes; Railways; History; History of Alberta; Canadian Northern Railway

Contents: Sitting Bull : Indian WIthout a Country Arthur Puttee and the Liberal Party : 1899 - 1904 The Winnipeg General Strike, Collective Bargaining, and the One Big Union Issue The Canadian Northern Railway : The West’s Own Product Contributors Reviews Recent publications relating to Canada Books received Notes and comments

Accession Number: TBD

Call Number: 08.5 R26ca

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Canadian Historical Review website via University of Toronto Press

Websites

https://utorontopress.com/ca/canadian-historical-review

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Finding directions west : readings that locate and dislocate Western Canada's past

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

Published Date: 2017

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press

Call Number: 07.2 c71f

Responsibility: Edited by George Colpitts and Heather Devine

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: ix, 266 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

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

Subjects: Indigenous; History-Canada; History of Alberta; Migration; Colonialism; Feminism; Banff Centre; Women's Rights

Abstract: Western Canada has figured historically as a focus point for new directions in human thought and action, migrations of the mind and body, and personal journeys of both a substantial and transcendental nature. The essays in Finding Directions West interrogate the meaning of those journeys, their reality, their memory, and their constructed identities within Western Canada itself. The book situates landscapes and peopled places in the West within the larger study of Western Canada and its transborder relationships. It draws scholars from a vareity of disciplines within history, from gender studies, to museum studies, to environmental history, in order to examine afresh Western Canada as a place for finding new directions in the human experience. -- From back cover

Contents: Partial List of Contents: Colonizer or Compatriot?: A Reassessment of Reveren John McDougall / Will Pratt ; "The Country Was Looking Wonderful": Insights on 1930s Alberta from the Travel Diary of Mary Beatrice Rundle / Sterling Evans ; Mountain Capitalists, Space, and Modernity at the Banff School of Fine Arts / PearlAnn Reichwein and Karen Wall

ISBN: 9781552388808

Accession Number: P2021.05

Call Number: 07.2 c71f

Collection: Archives Library

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The Hudson's Bay Company : Edmonton House journals, correspondence, and reports, 1806-1821

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

Published Date: 2017

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : Historical Society of Alberta

Call Number: 08.2 B51t

Responsibility: Edited with an introduction by Ted Binnema and Gerhard J. Ens

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : Historical Society of Alberta

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: 530 pages

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

Series: Edmonton House Journals

Subjects: Hudson's Bay Company; Politics; Colonialism; History-Canada; History of Alberta; Indigenous

Abstract: In 1795 the Hudson's Bay Company established Edmonton House and the North West Company Fort Augustus a few kilometres downstream from the present day city of Edmonton. Although both posts were moved several times, they operated side by side as the major administrative, trade, and provisioning centres on the North Saskatchewan River from 1795 to 1821, when the companies merged. The post journals and district reports from Edmonton House for the period from 1806 to 1821 are reproduced verbatim in this volume. Long available only to researchers with access to the collections of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, these journals and district reports provide a detailed day-by-day account of the operations of Edmonton House during this crucial period. They provide direct insight into the Aboriginal, social, and economic history of the region, and new information on the foundation of the Red River settlement adn the struggle for control of the trade in the Athabasca region. -- From back cover

Contents: Edmonton House Post Journals, 1806-1921 ; District Reports, 1816-1821

ISBN: 9780929123202

Accession Number: P2022.08

Call Number: 08.2 B51t

Collection: Archives Library

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Rails over the mountains : exploring the railway heritage of Canada's western mountains

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

Published Date: 2016

Author: Brown, Ron

Publisher: Toronto : Dundurn

Call Number: 08.3 B78r

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Author: Brown, Ron

Responsibility: Ron Brown

Publisher: Toronto : Dundurn

Published Date: 2016

Physical Description: 156 pages : illustrations

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

Subjects: Railways; History; History of Alberta; History-Canada; Rocky Mountains; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels

Abstract: Ride the rails through Canada’s western mountains to explore the many vestiges of the region’s spectacular and surprising railway heritage. Here is where grand railway hotels were built to attract tourists to the West’s beautiful scenery and bring profit to the railway lines as well. Rustic stations added to the allure. The challenges of conquering the mountains resulted in some of Canada’s most ingenious feats of engineering, such as spiral tunnels and soaring trestles (one of which was featured in The Amazing Race Canada). Relive the days of rail on a steam train, the luxurious Rocky Mountaineer, or one of VIA Rail’s mountain journeys. Outdoor enthusiasts can follow the abandoned roadbeds of Canada’s more spectacular rail trails, like the legendary Kettle Valley Railway. Also included are some of Canada’s most extensive railway museums, which have helped to bring this vanished era back to life. (From publisher's website)

Contents: The rails arrive -- Conquering the mountains : the tunnels and bridges -- The faces of the railways : the heritage railway stations -- Life on the line : the railway towns -- The dream castles : western Canada's railway hotels -- Railway structures : a forgotten heritage -- Celebrating the heritage : the railway museums -- The rail trails -- All aboard.

ISBN: 9781459733596

Accession Number: P2020.07

Call Number: 08.3 B78r

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

Websites

https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459733596-rails-over-the-mountains

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Railways in southern Alberta

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

Published Date: 1973

Author: Bowman, R.F.P.

Publisher: Lethbridge, Alta. : Lethbridge Historical Society

Call Number: 08.2 B67r Pam

Author: Bowman, R.F.P.

Responsibility: R.F.P. Bowman

Publisher: Lethbridge, Alta. : Lethbridge Historical Society

Published Date: 1973

Physical Description: 40 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 28 cm.

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

Subjects: Alberta; Railways; Railroads - Alberta; History; History of Alberta; Lethbridge

Abstract: Pertains to the history of the southern Alberta railways, written as a labor of love from Lethbridge local, R.F.P. Bowman. The intent of the publication was to record the history of the early local railway, in an effort to preserve the history before it was to be forgotten. Author R.F.P. Bowman, worked to commemorate the events that were able to elevate the area of Lethbridge, Alberta from its infancy into a state of maturity.

Contents: Chapter I: The beginnings (pg. 7); Chapter II: The Galts (pg. 9); Chapter III: Enter Canadian Pacific (pg. 13); Chapter IV: The Canadian Pacific extends (pg. 24); Chapter V: Other efforts (pg. 27); Chapter VI: Passenger trains in the past tense (pg. 31); Chapter VII: Freight - the railway's main diet (pg. 34); Chapter VIII: The Lethbridge division (pg. 38)

Accession Number: 3069 a

Call Number: 08.2 B67r Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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