topic:"Politics" found 9 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Aboriginal cultures in Alberta : five-hundred generations

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

Published Date: 2004

Publisher: Edmonton : Provincial Museum of Alberta

Call Number: 07.2 Al1b c.1 07.2 Allb c.2

Responsibility: Susan Berry and Jack Brink

Publisher: Edmonton : Provincial Museum of Alberta

Published Date: 2004

Physical Description: vii, 81 p. : col. ill., col. ports

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

Subjects: Archaeology; Art; Buffalo; Canada. Indian Affairs Branch; Education; Government; Medicine; Missionaries; Politics; Religion; Treaties

Notes: Supported by Syncrude

ISBN: 0778528529

Accession Number: 40500 08-01-04 2017.8669

Call Number: 07.2 Al1b c.1 07.2 Allb c.2

Collection: Archives Library

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Alberta centennial 1905-2005

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

Published Date: 2005

Publisher: Government of Alberta; Sun Media corporation

Call Number: 08.2 Al1c Pam oversize

Responsibility: with a message from the Premier of Alberta, Ralph Klein

Publisher: Government of Alberta; Sun Media corporation

Published Date: 2005

Physical Description: 68p. : ill

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

Subjects: Aviation; Bedaux Expedition; Crime; Film making; Immigration; Indians; Medicine; Meteorology; Place names; Politics; Railways; Sports

Notes: Magazine supplement to Banff Crag and Canyon newspaper with articles pertaining to the history of Alberta

Call Number: 08.2 Al1c Pam oversize

Collection: Archives Library

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Challenging frontiers : the Canadian west

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

Published Date: 2004

Author: Felske, Lorry W., Beverly Jean Rasporich (editors)

Publisher: Calgary : University of Calgary Press

Call Number: 08.2 Fe33c

Author: Felske, Lorry W., Beverly Jean Rasporich (editors)

Responsibility: Edited by Lorry W. Felske and Beverly Jean Rasporich

Publisher: Calgary : University of Calgary Press

Published Date: 2004

Physical Description: vii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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

Subjects: Landscapes; Artists; Prairies, Canadian; First Nations; Mining; Music; Immigration; Chinese; Politics; Ranching

Abstract: Pertains to Indigenous people and Asian immigration in Western Canada, the Banff Springs Hotel, coal mining in Calgary, Canadian Pacific Hotels, Wilf Carter, Group of Seven, Sid Marty

Contents: Introduction : challenging frontiers / Lorry W. Felske and Beverly Rasporich -- Shooting a Saskatoon (whatever happened to the Marlboro man?) / Aritha van Herk -- Regionalism, landscape, and identity in the prairie west / R. Douglas Francis -- Celebrating magpies : artists Paul Kane, Hongeeyesa, and Emily Carr / Ann Davis -- Two months in big bear's camp, 1885 : narratives of "Indian captivity" and the articulation of "race" and "gender" hierarchies in western Canada / Sarah Carter -- Roughing it in the west, or, whose frontier, whose history? / Janice Dickin -- Diversifying our past : finding a place for coal mining communities in Alberta's historic identity / Lorry W. Felske -- When the "wild west" is me : re-viewing cowboys and Indians / Emma LaRocque -- Managing contradictory visions of the west : the great Richardson/Weadick experiment / Robert Seiler and Tamara Seiler -- Hank Snow and the eastern frontiers of western music / Brian Rusted -- Standard prairie grain elevators : a disappearing icon / Geoffrey Simmins -- From somewhere to everywhere to nowhere : the bank of Montreal as a case of vanishing identity / Michael McMordie -- Asian immigration to western Canada / Madeline A. Kalbach -- Chinese-language media across the west / Lloyd Sciban -- The reform and alliance experiments : federal politics in Western Canada / David Taras -- Constancy amid change : ranching in Western Canada / Max Foran -- North/Western aurages : the soundscapes of Allan Gordon Bell / Marcia Jenneth Epstein -- Rodeos, ranching and the house of tea : Irene McCaugherty and Esther Warkov re-invent the West / Beverly Rasporich.

ISBN: 1-55238-140-4

Accession Number: p2019-21

Call Number: 08.2 Fe33c

Collection: Archives Library

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The importance of being monogamous : marriage and nation building in Western Canada to 1915

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

Published Date: 2008

Author: Carter, Sarah

Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta Press

Call Number: 08.2 C24i

Author: Carter, Sarah

Responsibility: Sarah Carter

Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta Press

Published Date: 2008

Physical Description: 383 p. : ill

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

Subjects: Immigration; Indians; Missionaries; Politics; Religion; Women

Notes: Includes bibliograpy and index

ISBN: 978-0-88864-490-9

Accession Number: 8168

Call Number: 08.2 C24i

Collection: Archives Library

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The Indian Association of Alberta : a history of political action

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

Published Date: 2002

Author: Meijer-Drees, Laurie

Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press

Call Number: 07.2 M47i

Author: Meijer-Drees, Laurie

Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press

Published Date: 2002

Physical Description: xxiii, 246 p. : ill., map, ports

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

Subjects: Canada. Indian Affairs Branch; Cardinal, Harold; Ethnic groups; Government; Laurie, John; Politics; Snow, John, Chief; Stoney Indians; Treaties

Notes: Includes discussion of the IAA and the "Red Paper" response to the 1969 "White Paper" tabled by the Liberal government. Also includes: Comparing political thought of John Calllihoo and John Tootootnis; Indian Association of Alberta executive members 1939-71; Supervisors of local Department of Indian Affairs, 1939-69; Indian Affairs administration, 1939-68; Alberta Reserve land surrenders. and of the Wesley band legal challenge for hunting rights for the Stoney supported by Norman Luxton (p.49)