The Prairie West Historical Readings
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The Prairie West Historical Readings
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Author : R. Douglas Francis
language : en
Publisher: University of Alberta
Release Date : 1992
The Prairie West Historical Readings written by R. Douglas Francis and has been published by University of Alberta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
This collection of 35 readings on Canadian prairie history includes overview interpretation and current research on topics such as the fur trade, native peoples, ethnic groups, status of women, urban and rural society, the Great Depression and literature and art.
The Prairie West As Promised Land
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Author : R. Douglas Francis
language : en
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Release Date : 2007
The Prairie West As Promised Land written by R. Douglas Francis and has been published by University of Calgary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Millions of immigrants were attracted to the Canadian West by promotional literature from the government in the late 19th century to the First World War bringing with them visions of opportunity to create a Utopian society or a chance to take control of their own destinies.
History Literature And The Writing Of The Canadian Prairies
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Author : Alison Calder
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Release Date : 2005-05-16
History Literature And The Writing Of The Canadian Prairies written by Alison Calder and has been published by Univ. of Manitoba Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-16 with History categories.
The Canadian Prairie has long been represented as a timeless and unchanging location, defined by settlement and landscape. Now, a new generation of writers and historians challenge that perception and argue, instead, that it is a region with an evolving culture and history. This collection of ten essays explores a more contemporary prairie identity, and reconfigures "the prairie" as a construct that is non-linear and diverse, responding to the impact of geographical, historical, and political currents. These writers explore the connections between document and imagination, between history and culture, and between geography and time.The subjects of the essays range widely: the non-linear structure of Carol Shield's The Stone Diaries; the impact of Aberhart's Social Credit, Marshall McLuhan, and Mesopotamian myth on Robert Kroetsch's prairie postmodernism; the role of document in long prairie poems; the connection between cultural tourism and heritage; the theme of regeneration in Margaret Laurence's Manawaka writing; the influence of imagination on geography in Thomas Wharton's Icefields; and the effects on an alpine climber of pre-WWII ideological concepts of time and individualism.
The Prairie West
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Author : R. Douglas Francis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Prairie West written by R. Douglas Francis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Prairie Provinces categories.
Hometown Horizons
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Author : Robert Allen Rutherdale
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2004
Hometown Horizons written by Robert Allen Rutherdale and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
In Hometown Horizons, Robert Rutherdale considers how people and communities on the Canadian home front perceived the Great War. Drawing on newspaper archives and organizational documents, he examines how farmers near Lethbridge, Alberta, shopkeepers in Guelph, Ontario, and civic workers in Trois-Rivières, Québec took part in local activities that connected their everyday lives to a tumultuous period in history. Many important debates in social and cultural history are addressed, including demonization of enemy aliens, gendered fields of wartime philanthropy, state authority and citizenship, and commemoration and social memory. The making of Canada’s home front, Rutherdale argues, was experienced fundamentally through local means. City parades, military send-offs, public school events, women’s war relief efforts, and many other public exercises became the parochial lenses through which a distant war was viewed. Like no other book before it, this work argues that these experiences were the true "realities" of war, and that the old maxim that truth is war’s first victim needs to be understood, even in the international and imperialistic Great War, as a profoundly local phenomenon. Hometown Horizons contributes to a growing body of work on the social and cultural histories of the First World War, and challenges historians to consider the place of everyday modes of communication in forming collective understandings of world events. This history of a war imagined will find an eager readership among social and military historians, cultural studies scholars, and anyone with an interest in wartime Canada.
A Time Such As There Never Was Before
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Author : Alan Bowker
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2014-09-06
A Time Such As There Never Was Before written by Alan Bowker and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-06 with History categories.
As much upheaval as WWI caused in Canada, its aftermath was even more transformative for the country. With victory and the return the troops, Canadian society was now faced with the question of how to return to normalcy — and what "normal" would mean, as Canada emerged from its colonial status and found its independent national identity.
River Road
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Author : Gerald Friesen
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Release Date : 1996-12-03
River Road written by Gerald Friesen and has been published by Univ. of Manitoba Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-12-03 with History categories.
The prairies are a focal point for momentous events in Canadian history, a place where two visions of Canada have often clashed: Louis Riel, the Manitoba School Question, French language rights, the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, and the dramatic collapse of the Meech Lake Accord when MLA Elijah Harper voted “No.”Gerald Friesen believes that it is the responsibility of the historian to “tell local stories in terms and concepts that make plain their intrinsic value and worth, that explain the relationship between the past and the present.” For local experiences to have any relevant meaning, they must be put into the context of the wider world.These essays were written for the general reader and the academic historian. They include previously published works (many of them revised and updated) from a wide variety of sources, and new pieces written specifically for River Road, examining aspects of prairie and Manitoba history from many different perspectives. They offer portraits of representatives from different sides of the prairie experience, such as Bob Russell, radical socialist and leader of the 1919 General Strike, and J.H. Riddell, conservative Methodist minister who represented “sane and safe” stewardship in the 1920s and 1930s. They explore the changing relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the “dominant” society, from the prosperous Metis community that flourished along the Red River in the 19th century (and produced Manitoba’s first Metis premier) to the events that led to the Manitoba Aboriginal Justice Inquiry in the 1980s.Other essays consider new viewpoints of the prairie past, using the perspectives of ethnic and cultural history, women’s history, regional history, and labour history to raise questions of interpretation and context. The time frame considered is equally wide-ranging, from the Aboriginal and Red River society to the political arena of current constitutional debates.
The Borderlands Of The American And Canadian Wests
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Author : Sterling Evans
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
The Borderlands Of The American And Canadian Wests written by Sterling Evans and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Political Science categories.
The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests is the first collection of interdisciplinary essays bringing together scholars from both sides of the forty-ninth parallel to examine life in a transboundary region. The result is a text that reveals the diversity, difficulties, and fortunes of this increasingly powerful but little-understood part of the North American West. Contributions by historians, geographers, anthropologists, and scholars of criminal justice and environmental studies provide a comprehensive picture of the history of the borderlands region of the western United States and Canada. The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests is divided into six parts: Defining the Region, Colonizing the Frontier, Farming and Other Labor Interactions, the Borderlands as a Refuge in the Nineteenth Century, the Borderlands as a Refuge in the Twentieth Century, and Natural Resources and Conservation along the Border. Topics include the borderlands environment; its aboriginal and gender history; frontier interactions and comparisons; agricultural and labor relations; tourism; the region as a refuge for Mormons, far-right groups, and Vietnam War resisters; and conservation and natural resources. These areas show how the history and geography of the borderlands region has been transboundary, multidimensional, and unique within North America.
Writing Off The Rural West
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Author : Parkland Institute
language : en
Publisher: University of Alberta
Release Date : 2001-09
Writing Off The Rural West written by Parkland Institute and has been published by University of Alberta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09 with Business & Economics categories.
This collection reveals the situation in rural Canada in a new light; but more than that, it shows us that the ability to renew our rural communities remains within our grasp if we have the will to do so."--BOOK JACKET.
Alberta Formed Alberta Transformed
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Author : Alberta 2005 Centennial History Society
language : en
Publisher: University of Alberta
Release Date : 2006-04-18
Alberta Formed Alberta Transformed written by Alberta 2005 Centennial History Society and has been published by University of Alberta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-18 with History categories.
Alberta Formed Alberta Transformed is a two-volume set spanning a remarkable 12,000 years of history and showcasing the work of 34 of Alberta's most respected scholars. Volume 1 sets the stage from human beginnings in Alberta to the eve of Alberta's inauguration as a province in 1905, while Volume 2 takes readers through the twentieth century and up to the 2005 centennial.