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

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25531

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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From bombs to meadowlarks : the stories of the war brides of Medicine Hat and district as told to Carol Ann Ross, Kath Killcullen, Doreen Hortness and Angela J. Stubbs

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

Published Date: 2008

Author: Stubbs, Angela J.

Publisher: Medicine Hat, AB : Historical Society of Medicine Hat and District

Call Number: 08.2 St9f

Author: Stubbs, Angela J.

Responsibility: Angela J. Stubbs (editor)

Publisher: Medicine Hat, AB : Historical Society of Medicine Hat and District

Published Date: 2008

Physical Description: 152 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm.

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

Series: No. 1 1944-1947

Subjects: Women; Women in war; War Brides; World War, 1939-1945; Alberta; History of Alberta; Immigration

Abstract: Pertains to the experiences of warbrides who immigrated to Medicine Hat and district during the World War II time period.

Contents: Forward; Jenny Gratrix Wartime Memories; Bardsley, Theresa; Beasley, Gladys; Blades, Margaret; Bowering, Margaret; Burles, Olive; Byan, Doreen; Capper, Minnie; Clark, Eileen; Crowther, Esme; Dudley-Rees, Peg; Eremenko, Renee; Gazdag, Kea; Goodine, Isabel; Gratrix, Jenny; Hollingsworth, Finnie; Hyland, Doris; Keeler, Daphne; Kehn, Elza; McCarten, Betty; McKay, Amy; Niemen, Madge; Olmstead, Bette; Pahl, Ruby; Pederson, Audrey; St.George, Joan; Solley, Lynn; Stevens, Kathy; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Modern Photographs of Warbrides

ISBN: 978-0-9737894-1-6 pbk

Accession Number: 2019.01

Call Number: 08.2 St9f

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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