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Artist
Barbara Leighton (1911 – 1986, Canadian)
Date
n.d.
Medium
woodcut on paper
Catalogue Number
LeB.04.17
Description
There is a very large ship with yellow sails and orange stripes in the cc. From the cl a piece of land with green grass jets out into the water. Across the front is a dark blue body of water with a small sail boat and two people in the br. The blue sky is filled with grey clouds.
Artist
Barbara Leighton (1911 – 1986, Canadian)
Title
Homeward Bound
Date
n.d.
Medium
woodcut on paper
Description
There is a very large ship with yellow sails and orange stripes in the cc. From the cl a piece of land with green grass jets out into the water. Across the front is a dark blue body of water with a small sail boat and two people in the br. The blue sky is filled with grey clouds.
Subject
Seascape
transportation
ship
boats
activity
sailing
figure
two people
Credit
Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1995
Catalogue Number
LeB.04.17
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Night Rain at Yanagihara

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactkiy.04.03
Artist
Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847 – 1915, Japanese)
Date
1882
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
KiY.04.03
Description
dark, rainy street scene with people carrying umbrellas and lanterns, with rickshaw and dog in the foreground
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Artist
Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847 – 1915, Japanese)
Title
Night Rain at Yanagihara
Date
1882
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
24.5 x 36.6 cm
Description
dark, rainy street scene with people carrying umbrellas and lanterns, with rickshaw and dog in the foreground
Subject
people
dog
night
rain
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
KiY.04.03
Images
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We remember the coming of the white man

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26188
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
Blondin, Walter; Blondin, George; Goose, Leanne; Mountain, Antoine; Stewart, Sarah; Yakeleya, Raymond; and Dene Elders; foreword by Blondin, Walter.
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta, Canada : Durvile & UpRoute Books
Call Number
07.2 St4w
Author
Blondin, Walter; Blondin, George; Goose, Leanne; Mountain, Antoine; Stewart, Sarah; Yakeleya, Raymond; and Dene Elders; foreword by Blondin, Walter.
Responsibility
Edited by Sarah Stewart and Raymond Yakeleya
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta, Canada : Durvile & UpRoute Books
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
xiii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 videodisc (4 3/4 in.)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Dene
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous People
Indigenous Customs
Language
Non-fiction
Oral History
Abstract
Chapters are transcripts of oral histories from the early twentieth century, by ten elders of the Dene people, about the early days of fur trading, guns, and missionaries; their dismay about the way oil and uranium discoveries and pipelines were handled on their land; and the emotional fallout of the signing of Treaty 11.
Contents
Preface / Raymond Yakeleya -- Part I, Reflections. Foreward, Walter Blondin -- Treaty 11, Sarah Stewart -- We remember, Raymond Yakeleya -- The Dene nation / Sarah Stewart -- The Métis experience / Colette Poitras -- Part II, The elders remember. The elders / Elizabeth Yakeleya, Sarah Simon, Mary Wilson, Joe Blondin, John Blondin, Isadore Yukon, Johnny Kaye, Jim Edwards Sittichinli, Peter Thompson, Andrew Kunnizzi -- Early days -- Fur, guns, contact -- Family life -- Boat time -- Missionaries -- Oil discovery -- Treaty 11 -- The sickness -- Uranium -- First machines -- The mad trapper -- Canol road -- Mackenzie Valley pipeline -- Time of change -- Part III Stories from the people. Tutichak, Leanne Goose -- How the muskrat created the world / Antoine Mountain, Maurice Mendo -- The slingshot and the songbird / Raymond Yakeleya -- In the land of the Na?àcho / George Blondin -- The drums / George Blondin -- When the white people came / George Blondin -- Acknowledgments -- Authors -- The spirit of nature series.
Notes
Companion DVD includes "We remember the coming of the white man" directed by Raymond Yakeleya, 1978, 55 min. Remastered and produced in 2020. Includes director's commentary.
ISBN
9781988824635
Accession Number
P2022.14
Call Number
07.2 St4w
Collection
Archives Library
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