Alexander Kennedy Isbister

Author : Barry Cooper
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773573529

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Alexander Kennedy Isbister by Barry Cooper Pdf

Born of mixed Scottish/Native Indian blood in what is now Saskatchewan, Isbister emigrated to Britain after he found his ambitions thwarted by Hudson's Bay Company policies regarding native-born employees. There he became a respected educator, but more important to this study, he also became the most persistent critic of the Company, and of British and Canadian policies dealing with the inhabitants of Rupert's Land and the Northwest Territories.

Author : Alexander Kennedy Isbister
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Elocution
ISBN : OXFORD:600085009

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Outlines of elocution and correct reading by Alexander Kennedy Isbister Pdf

Author : Tracy C. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781009297530

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Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires by Tracy C. Davis Pdf

Examining activist performance techniques, this book shows how women and men could deeply influence public life in the nineteenth century.

Author : Ted Binnema
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442614758

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Enlightened Zeal by Ted Binnema Pdf

Initially highly secretive about all of its activities, the HBC was by 1870 an exceptionally generous patron of science. Aware of the ways that a commitment to scientific research could burnish its corporate reputation, the company participated in intricate symbiotic networks that linked the HBC as a corporation with individuals and scientific organizations in England, Scotland, and the United States. The pursuit of scientific knowledge could bring wealth and influence, along with tribute, fame, and renown, but science also brought less tangible benefits: adventure, health, happiness, male companionship, self-improvement, or a sense of meaning.

Author : Richard Clarke Davis
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781895176889

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Lobsticks and Stone Cairns by Richard Clarke Davis Pdf

Lobsticks and stone cairns are landmarks that mark paths and commemorate events. The one hundred biographies in this book also offer themselves as paths to be taken. Centuries of human endeavour, hardship, folly, and suffering are collapsed into stories through which we can discover what the Arctic is and has been. Profiled in this book are "human landmarks" dating from as far back as the sixteenth century to those still active in the North today. Included are stories of adventurers, military officers, authors, guides, culture heroes, police, traders, and even the occasional charlatan. The biographies are of Inuit, European, American, Indian, and Canadian men and women. What appears here is the essence of each person, rendered by an expert and put in a new context, bringing the history and geography of the North to life.

Author : J.M. Bumsted
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887553875

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Thomas Scott's Body by J.M. Bumsted Pdf

What did happen to the body of Thomas Scott?The disposal of the body of Canadian history's most famous political victim is the starting point for historian J.M. Bumsted's new look at some of the most fascinating events and personalities of Manitoba's Red River Settlement.To outsiders, 19th-century Red River seemed like a remote community precariously poised on the edge of the frontier. Small and isolated though it may have been, Red River society was also lively, well educated, multicultural and often contentious. By looking at well-known figures from a new perspective, and by examining some of the more obscure corners of the settlement's history, Bumsted challenges many of the widely held assumptions about Red River. He looks, for instance, at the brief, unhappy Swiss settlement at Red River, examines the controversial reputation of politician John Christian Shultz, and delves into the sensational scandal of a prominent clergyman's trial.Vividly written, Thomas Scott's Body pieces together a new and often surprising picture of early Manitoba and its people.

Author : Jane Carey,Jane Lydon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317659327

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Indigenous Networks by Jane Carey,Jane Lydon Pdf

This edited collection argues for the importance of recovering Indigenous participation within global networks of imperial power and wider histories of "transnational" connections. It takes up a crucial challenge for new imperial and transnational histories: to explore the historical role of colonized and subaltern communities in these processes, and their legacies in the present. Bringing together prominent and emerging scholars who have begun to explore Indigenous networks and "transnational" encounters, and to consider the broader significance of "extra-local" connections, exchanges and mobility for Indigenous peoples, this work engages closely with some of the key historical scholarship on transnationalism and the networks of European imperialism. Chapters deploy a range of analytic scales, including global, regional and intra-Indigenous networks, and methods, including histories of ideas and cultural forms and biography, as well as exploring contemporary legacies. In drawing these perspectives together, this book charts an important new direction in research.

Author : Jim Blanchard
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887553080

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A Thousand Miles of Prairie by Jim Blanchard Pdf

A Thousand Miles of Prairie is a fascinating look at Manitoba's early boom years (1880-1910) through the eyes and words of some of the most interesting personalities of early Winnipeg. This collection brings together 14 pieces from the first decades of the Manitoba Historical Society, when its lectures were attended by the provinceís political and cultural elite. Jim Blanchard has chosen selections that give us a vivid taste of the diversity of intellectual life in turn of the century Manitoba. Besides writings by early historians such as George Bryce and Charles Bell, he includes a paper by the young Ernest Thompson Seton, who writes about his attempts to raise prairie chickens. There is also a description of the last passenger pigeons found in Manitoba. The collection includes lively personal reminscences, such as Gilbert McMicken, Canada's first spymaster, talking about foiling a Fenian raid on Winnipeg, and Archbishop Samuel Matheson, who tells about his boyhood adventures in the great Red River floods of the 1860s.

Author : Sarah Carter,Patricia Alice McCormack
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781897425824

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Recollecting by Sarah Carter,Patricia Alice McCormack Pdf

Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminate the lives of late eighteenth-century to the mid twentieth-century Aboriginal women, who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West. Some essays focus on individual women - a trader, a performer, a non-human woman - while others examine cohorts of women - wives, midwives, seamstresses, nuns. Authors look beyond the documentary record and standard representations of women, drawing also on records generated by the women themselves, including their beadwork, other material culture, and oral histories.

Author : Joachim Fromhold
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780557563227

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Western Canadian People in the Past 1600-1900 H-L by Joachim Fromhold Pdf

The only existing listing of historic persons and births, deaths and affiliations for Western Canada and adjacent areas for the Fur Trade eras of 1600-1900

Author : Nicole St-Onge,Carolyn Podruchny,Brenda Macdougall
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806146348

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Contours of a People by Nicole St-Onge,Carolyn Podruchny,Brenda Macdougall Pdf

What does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their world, and how do family, community, and location shape their consciousness? Such questions inform this collection of essays on the northwestern North American people of mixed European and Native ancestry who emerged in the seventeenth century as a distinct culture. Volume editors Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall go beyond the concern with race and ethnicity that takes center stage in most discussions of Metis culture to offer new ways of thinking about Metis identity. Geography, mobility, and family have always defined Metis culture and society. The Metis world spanned the better part of a continent, and a major theme of Contours of a People is the Metis conception of geography—not only how Metis people used their environments but how they gave meaning to place and developed connections to multiple landscapes. Their geographic familiarity, physical and social mobility, and maintenance of family ties across time and space appear to have evolved in connection with the fur trade and other commercial endeavors. These efforts, and the cultural practices that emerged from them, have contributed to a sense of community and the nationalist sentiment felt by many Metis today. Writing about a wide geographic area, the contributors consider issues ranging from Metis rights under Canadian law and how the Library of Congress categorizes Metis scholarship to the role of women in maintaining economic and social networks. The authors’ emphasis on geography and its power in shaping identity will influence and enlighten Canadian and American scholars across a variety of disciplines.

Author : Euclides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600050047

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The school Euclid: comprising the first four books, by A.K. Isbister by Euclides Pdf

Author : Annaliese Jacobs Claydon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350292963

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Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge by Annaliese Jacobs Claydon Pdf

In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The enduring obsession with the Franklin mystery, and in particular Inuit information about its fate, is partly due to the ways in which information was circulated in these imperial spaces. This book examines how the Franklins and other explorer families engaged in science, exploration and the exchange of information in the early to mid-19th century. It follows the Franklins from the Arctic to Van Diemen's Land, charting how they worked with intermediaries, imperial humanitarians and scientists, and shows how they used these experiences to claim a moral right to information. Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge shows how the indigenous peoples, translators, fur traders, whalers, convicts and sailors who explorer families relied upon for information were both indispensable and inconvenient to the Franklins. It reveals a deep entanglement of polar expedition with British imperialism, and shows how geographical knowledge intertwined with convict policy, humanitarianism, genocide and authority. In these imperial spaces families such as the Franklins negotiated their tenuous authority over knowledge to engage with the politics of truth and question the credibility and trustworthiness of those they sought to silence.

Author : Ferenc Morton Szasz
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806132531

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Scots in the North American West, 1790-1917 by Ferenc Morton Szasz Pdf

"Scots trappers dominated the fur trade, often proving more loyal to clan than to trading company or nation. Relying on centuries of experience raising livestock for British markets, Scottish investors and managers became highly visible in the post-Civil War western cattle industry with thriving outfits such as the Swan Land and Cattle Company in Wyoming. They introduced new breeds to western ranching, such as the Aberdeen Angus, that remain popular today. Similarly, Scots herders dominated the western sheep industry, running herds of over 100,000 animals. Andrew Little's sheep ranch in Idaho was so famous that a letter addressed simply "Andy Little, USA" found its intended recipient.

Author : Gerhard J. Ens,Joe Sawchuk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Autonomie
ISBN : 9781442627116

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From New Peoples to New Nations by Gerhard J. Ens,Joe Sawchuk Pdf

From New Peoples to New Nations is a broad historical account of the emergence of the Metis as distinct peoples in North America over the last three hundred years. Examining the cultural, economic, and political strategies through which communities define their boundaries, Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk trace the invention and reinvention of Metis identity from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Their work updates, rethinks, and integrates the many disparate aspects of Metis historiography, providing the first comprehensive narrative of Metis identity in more than fifty years. Based on extensive archival materials, interviews, oral histories, ethnographic research, and first-hand working knowledge of Metis political organizations, From New Peoples to New Nations addresses the long and complex history of Metis identity from the Battle of Seven Oaks to today's legal and political debates.