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Author : Gerald Friesen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802066488
A history of the Canadian prairie provinces from the days of Native-European contact to the 1980s.
Author : Harry P. Diaz,Margot Ann Hurlbert,Jim William Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Science
ISBN : 1552388190
Although there is considerable historical literature describing the social and economic impact of drought on the prairies in the 1930s, little has been written about the challenges presented by drought in more contemporary times. The drought of 2001-02 was, for example, the most recent large-area, intense, and prolonged drought in Canada and one of Canada's most costly natural disasters in a century. Vulnerability and Adaptation to Drought on the Canadian Prairies describes the impacts of droughts and the adaptations made in prairie agriculture over recent decades. These adaptations have enhanced the capacity of rural communities to withstand drought. However, despite the high levels of technical adaptation that have occurred, and the existing human capital and vibrant social and information networks, agricultural producers in the prairie region remain vulnerable to severe droughts that last more than a couple of years. Research findings and projections suggest that droughts could become more frequent, more seveare, and of longer duration in the region over the course of the 21st century. This book provides insights into the conditions generating these challenges and the measures required to reduce vulnerability of prairie communities to them. This volume develops a greater understanding of the social forces and conditions that have contributed to enhanced resilience, as well as those which detract from successful adaptation and examines drought through an interdisciplinary lens encompassing climate science and the social sciences
Author : University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0889772312
The Canadian Prairies in a Changing Climate is a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of climate change in the prairie provinces, the impacts on natural resources, communities, human health and sectors of the economy, and the adaptation options that are available for alleviating adverse impacts and taking advantage of new opportunities provided by a warmer climate.
Author : Alison Calder,Robert Wardhaugh
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887553240
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.
Author : Jared J. Wesley
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774820776
Politics on the Canadian prairies are puzzling. The provinces share common roots, but they have nurtured three distinct political cultures -- Alberta is Canada's bastion of conservatism, Saskatchewan its cradle of social democracy, and Manitoba its progressive centre. Jared Wesley explains this paradox by examining the rhetoric employed by dominant parties to renew their provinces' political code -- freedom for Alberta, security for Saskatchewan, and moderation for Manitoba. Although the content of their campaigns differed, leaders from William Aberhart to Tommy Douglas to Gary Doer have employed distinct codes to ensure their parties' success and shape their provinces' political landscapes.
Author : Valerie J. Korinek
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802095312
Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the prairies. Focusing on five major urban centres, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Edmonton, and Calgary, Prairie Fairies explores the regional experiences and activism of queer men and women by looking at the community centres, newsletters, magazines, and organizations that they created from 1930 to 1985.? Challenging the preconceived narratives of queer history, Valerie J. Korinek argues that the LGBTTQ community has a long history in the prairie west, and that its history, previously marginalized or omitted, deserves attention. Korinek pays tribute to the prairie activists and actors who were responsible for creating spaces for socializing, politicizing, and organizing this community, both in cities and rural areas. Far from the stereotype of the isolated, insular Canadian prairies of small towns and farming communities populated by faithful farm families, Prairie Fairies historicizes the transformation of prairie cities, and ultimately the region itself, into a predominantly urban and diverse place.
Author : Frances Swyripa
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887557200
Storied Landscapes is a beautifully written, sweeping examination of the evolving identity of major ethno-religious immigrant groups in the Canadian West including Ukrainians, Mennonites, Icelanders, Doukhobors, Germans, Poles, Romanians, Jews, Finns, Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes.
Author : Gerald Friesen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0835737772
Author : Gerald Friesen,University of Toronto Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0802048676
Author : R. Douglas Francis
Publisher : Saskatoon : Western Producer Prairie Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034359823
Author : Neil L. Jennings
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1771603518
Neil Jennings's new series of colourful and easy-to-use wildflower guides introduces amateur naturalists to some of the more commonly found wildflowers in the Canadian Prairies. Along with hundreds of colour photos and informative descriptions containing both common and scientific flower names, the blossoms profiled are arranged by their predominant colour, and the books themselves are designed to be small and lightweight enough to encourage the user to take them into the field. Whether for hiking, walking, camping, or adventuring in the great outdoors, these charming books are packed with useful information for anyone interested in enhancing their enjoyment of the natural world by learning about the flora encountered. Indeed, the ability to make an accurate identification of various wild plants is satisfying in and of itself, and the user will also be better equipped to avoid certain plants that should not be tampered with owing to their toxicity, scarcity, or sharp spines or edges.
Author : Sarah Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0887558186
Imperial Plots depicts the female farmers and ranchers of the prairies, from the Indigenous women agriculturalists of the Plains to the array of women who resolved to work on the land in the first decades of the twentieth century.
Author : Alison Marshall
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774828024
In the late 1870s, thousands of Chinese men left coastal British Columbia and the western United States and headed east. For them, the Prairies were a land of opportunity; there, they could open shops and potentially earn enough money to become merchants. The result of almost a decade's research and more than three hundred interviews, Cultivating Connections tells the stories of some of Prairie Canada's Chinese settlers - men and women from various generations who navigated cultural difference. These stories reveal the critical importance of networks in coping with experiences of racism and establishing a successful life on the Prairies.
Author : Jim William Warren,Harry P. Diaz
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780889772946
After travelling through the Canadian prairies in 1857 and 1858, British adventurer John Palliser deemed a large portion of the region to be a near desert and unfit for agriculture. That reportedly disadvantaged area became known famously as Palliser's Triangle. In Defying Palliser, farmers and ranchers from southwest Saskatchewan and southeast Alberta--residents in the Palliser Triangle--tell how they have challenged Palliser's prediction. Incorporating the latest research on adaptive capacity and climate change, these stories of self-reliance, inventiveness and community solidarity reveal a remarkably resilient people who have adapted and survived in the driest, most drought-prone climate on the Canadian Prairies.
Author : Merle Massie
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887554544
Saskatchewan is the anchor and epitome of the ‘prairie’ provinces, even though half of the province is covered by boreal forest. The Canadian penchant for dividing this vast country into easily-understood ‘regions’ has reduced the Saskatchewan identity to its southern prairie denominator and has distorted cultural and historical interpretations to favor the prairie south. Forest Prairie Edge is a deep-time investigation of the edge land, or ecotone, between the open prairies and boreal forest region of Saskatchewan. Ecotones are transitions from one landscape to another, where social, economic, and cultural practices of different landscapes are blended. Using place history and edge theory, Massie considers the role and importance of the edge ecotone in building a diverse social and economic past that contradicts traditional “prairie” narratives around settlement, economic development, and culture. She offers a refreshing new perspective that overturns long-held assumptions of the prairies and the Canadian west.