Alberta formed, Alberta transformed
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Press ; Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 P29a Vol. 1
- Responsibility
- edited by Payne, Michael and Wetherell, Donald and Cavanaugh, Catherine with Alberta 2005 Centennial History Society
- Publisher
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Press ; Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2006
- Subjects
- Alberta
- Alberta centennial
- Abstract
- 'Thirty essays in 2 volumes represent a wide range of voices and points of view. Moving beyond a straightforward commemorative history, the contributors often tackle contentious issues and question previous, more conventional approaches and assumptions. Each essay represents a snapshot in time, focusing on a person, a trend or an event that has played a significant part in shaping Alberta. Contains maps, archival photographs and illustrations, and explanatory sidebars. Vol. 1 covers from human beginnings to Alberta's inauguration as a province in 1905, vol. 2 takes readers through the 20th century up to the 2005 centennial.' - Aurora
- Contents
- v. 1.: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 13,001 years ago: human beginnings in Alberta / John W. Ives -- The day the dry snow fell: the record of a 7,627-year-old disaster / Alwynne B. Beaudoin and Gerald A. Oetelaar -- Buffalo and dogs: the prehistoric lifeway of aboriginal people on the Alberta Plains, 1004-1005 / Trevor R. Peck and J. Rod Vickers -- The never-ending journey of Anthony Henday / Eldon Yellowhorn -- "With tears, shrieks, and howling of despair": the smallpox epidemic of 1781-1782 / Ted Binnema -- Fatal quarrels and fur trade rivalries: a year of living dangerously on the North Saskatchewan 1806-07 / Gerhard J. Ens -- Economy must now be the order of the day: George Simpson and the reorganization of the fur trade to 1826 / Heather Devine -- On the edge of the great transformation: 1857-58 / Frits Pannekoek -- 1870: a year of violence and change? Hugh A. Dempsey -- "A better life with honour": treaty 6 (1876) and treaty 7 (1877) with Alberta First Nations / Sarah Carter and Walter Hildebrandt -- Too many scared people: Alberta and the 1885 north-west rebellion / Bill Waiser -- 1899 and the political economy of Canada's north-west: Treaty 8 as a compact to share and peacefully co-exist / Brian Calliou -- 1904-1905: Alberta Proclaimed / David Hall.
- Notes
- Volume One and Volume Two
- ISBN
- 1552381943
- Accession Number
- 7871
- Call Number
- 08.1 P29a Vol. 1
- Collection
- Archives Library
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