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The American Western in Canadian literature

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25703
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Deshaye, Joel
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
Call Number
08.1 D45t
Author
Deshaye, Joel
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
x, 414 pages ; 23 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Nationalism
Literature
Canada
Canada - Western Region
History
American
Abstract
The first historically broad and in-depth study of the Canadian Western, its relationship to the American genre, and its shifting place within Canada's national and regional literary traditions. The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the genre in curious ways. Canadian Westerns are almost always in conversation with their American cousins, influenced by their tropes and traditions, responding to their politics, and repurposing their structures to create a national literary tradition. The American Western in Canadian Literature examines over a century of the development of the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to evolving literary trends, and to regional, national, and international change. Beginning with Indigenous perspectives on the genre, it moves from early manifestations of the Western in Christian narratives of personal and national growth, and its controversial pulp-fictional popularity in the 1940s, to its postmodern and contemporary critiques, pushing the boundary of the Western to include Northerns, Northwesterns, and post-Westerns in literature, film, and wider cultural imagery. The American Western in Canadian Literature is more than a simple history. It uses genre theory to comment on historical perspectives on nation and region. It includes overviews of Indigenous and settler-colonial critiques of the Western, challenging persistent attitudes to Indigenous people and their traditional territories that are endemic to the genre. It illuminates the way that the Canadian Western enshrines, hagiographies, and ultimately desacralizes aspects of Canadian life, from car culture to extractive industries to assumptions about a Canadian moral high ground. This is a comprehensive, highly readable, and fascinating study of an underexamined genre.-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction. Signposts and scales -- Scaling and spacing the genre transnationalism, nationalism, and regionalism -- Tom King's John Wayne Indigenous perspectives on the Western -- Northwestern Cross Christianity and Transnationalism in early Canadian westerns -- From law to outlaw -- Second World War, westerns, and the '40s pulps -- CanLit's postmodern westerns ghosts and the cowgirl riding off into the sunrise -- Degeneration through violence contemporary historical westerns and post-human horsemen -- Conclusion mining the western in the Twenty-First Century.
ISBN
9781773852676
Accession Number
P2023.07
Call Number
08.1 D45t
Collection
Archives Library
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An impending water crisis in Canada's western prairie provinces

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24934
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2006
Author
Schindler, D.W.
Donahue, W.F.
Publisher
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Call Number
03.5 Sc1a PAM
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Author
Schindler, D.W.
Donahue, W.F.
Responsibility
D.W. Schindler
W.F. Donahue
Publisher
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Published Date
2006
Physical Description
6 pages ; illustrations , maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Water
Watersheds
Climate
Climate change
Climatology
Western Canada
Glaciers
Rivers
Lakes
Abstract
Canada is usually considered to be a country with abundant freshwater, but in its western prairie provinces (WPP), an area 1/5 the size of Europe, freshwater is scarce. European settlement of the WPP did not begin until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Fortuitously, the period since European settlement appears to have been the wettest century of the past two millennia. The frequent, long periods of drought that characterized earlier centuries of the past two millennia were largely absent in the 20th century. Here, we show that climate warming and human modifications to catchments have already significantly reduced the flows of major rivers of the WPP during the summer months, when human demand and in-stream flow needs are greatest. We predict that in the near future climate warming, via its effects on glaciers, snowpacks, and evaporation, will combine with cyclic drought and rapidly increasing human activity in the WPP to cause a crisis in water quantity and quality with far-reaching implications.
Notes
In PNAS May 9, 2006 103 (19) 7210-7216
Call Number
03.5 Sc1a PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Available online via PNAS's website
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Ancestors : indigenous peoples of Western Canada in historic photographs

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25527
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
Call Number
07.2 C24a
07.2 C24a copy 2
Responsibility
Edited by Sarah Carter and Inez Lightning
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
x, 188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Photography
History
History of Alberta
Western Canada
Colonialism
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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[Beavermouth 82N/11 West, B.C.]

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue23494
Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Published Date
1959
Publisher
Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
Call Number
NTS
82N/11W
Publisher
Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
Published Date
1959
Physical Description
1 map : col
Scale
Scale: 1: 50,000
Relief: Contour interval 100'
Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Subjects
Beavermouth
Western British Columbia
Notes
Beavermouth
National Topographic System
Call Number
NTS
82N/11W
Collection
Archives Library
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[Blaeberry 82N/6 West, B.C.]

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue23498
Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Published Date
1959
Publisher
Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
Call Number
NTS
82N/6W
Publisher
Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
Published Date
1959
Physical Description
1 map : col
Scale
Scale: 1: 50,000
Relief: Contour interval 100'
Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Subjects
Blaeberry
Western British Columbia
Notes
National Topographic System
Call Number
NTS
82N/6W
Collection
Archives Library
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[Blairmore 82G/9 West, Alberta]

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue23501
Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Published Date
1946
Publisher
Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
Call Number
NTS
82G/9W
Publisher
Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
Published Date
1946
Physical Description
1 map : col
Scale
Scale: 1:50,000
Relief: Contour interval 100'
Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Subjects
Blairmore
Western Alberta
Notes
National Topographic System
Call Number
NTS
82G/9W
Collection
Archives Library
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[Blue Creek 83E/7 West, Alta.]

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue23504
Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Published Date
1960
Publisher
Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
Call Number
NTS
83E/7W
Publisher
Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
Published Date
1960
Physical Description
1 map : col
Scale
Scale: 1:50,000
Relief: Contour Interval 100 ft.
Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Subjects
Blue Creek
Western Alberta
Notes
National Topographic System
Accession Number
3000
Call Number
NTS
83E/7W
Collection
Archives Library
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[Blue River 83D/3 West, B.C.]

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue23506
Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Published Date
1963
Publisher
Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
Call Number
NTS
83D/3W
Publisher
Dept. of Mines and Techinical Surveys
Published Date
1963
Physical Description
1 map : col
Scale
Scale: 1:50,000
Relief: Contour Interval 100 ft
Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Subjects
Blue River
Western British Columbia
Notes
National Topographic System
Accession Number
3000
Call Number
NTS
83D/3W
Collection
Archives Library
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Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Call Number
C13-12.7
Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Subjects
Europe - Western
Notes
The Irish Sea, The German Sea. The British Ocean
Accession Number
400
Call Number
C13-12.7
Collection
Archives Library
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Calgary 1875-1950 : a souvenir of Calgary's seventy-fifith anniversary

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20080
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Author
Morrison, Elsie C., and P.N.R. Morrison
Publisher
Calgary, AB : Calgary Publishing Company
Call Number
08.1 M83c
Variant Title
The story of Calgary
Author
Morrison, Elsie C., and P.N.R. Morrison
Responsibility
Elsie C. Morrison and P.N.R. Morrison
Publisher
Calgary, AB : Calgary Publishing Company
Physical Description
249 pages.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Calgary, Alberta Western Canadian History
History
Abstract
Pertains to a collection of Calgary’s finest moments, people and places in celebration of the cities seventy-fifth anniversary. Covering the years between 1875 and 1950, the publication provides a comprehensive collection of historical events, people, politics and stories that contributed to making Calgary the city it is today. In part with the celebration, the publication honors the settlers who battled the frontier and worked to industrialize the city of Calgary.
Accession Number
3069 a
Call Number
08.1 M83c
Collection
Archives Library
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