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Challenging frontiers : the Canadian west

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19801
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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Prairie beauty : wildflowers of the Canadian prairies

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13661
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2007
Author
Jennings, Neil L.
Publisher
Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
QK J46 P73
Author
Jennings, Neil L.
Responsibility
Neil L. Jennings
Publisher
Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2007
Physical Description
xii, 235p. : ill. , map
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Botany
Guidebooks
Prairies, Canadian
ISBN
978-1-894765-84-8
Call Number
QK J46 P73
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Prince charming goes West : the story of the E.P. ranch

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15230
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2009
Author
Evans, Simon
Publisher
Calgary : University of Calgary Press
Edition
Second printing
Call Number
08.2 Ev1p
Author
Evans, Simon
Edition
Second printing
Publisher
Calgary : University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2009
Physical Description
xii, 219 pages, illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Prairies, Canadian
Ranching
Royal tours
ISBN
1895176344
Accession Number
P2016-73,000-03
Call Number
08.2 Ev1p
Collection
Archives Library
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