Western Canadian History

Author : Sarah Carter
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552381779

Get Book

Unsettled Pasts by Sarah Carter Pdf

The traditional mythology of the West is dominated by male images: the fur trader, the Mountie, the missionary, the miner, the cowboy, the politician, the Chief. Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West claims to re-examine the West through women's eyes. It draws together contributions from researchers, scholars, and academic and community activists, and seeks to create dialogue across geographic, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries. Ranging from scholarly essays to poetry, these pieces offer the reader a sample of some of today's most innovative approaches to western Canadian women's history; several of the themes that run throughout the volume have only recently been critically addressed. By rewriting the West from the perspective of women, the contributors complicate traditional narratives of the region's past by contesting historical generalizations, thus transcending the myths and "frontier" legacies that emerged out of imperial and masculine priorities and perspectives. With Contributions by: Kristin Burnett Cristine Georgina Bye Sarah Carter Mary Leah De Zwart Lesley A. Erickson Cheryl Foggo Nadine I. Kozak Siri Louie Graham A. Macdonald Florence Melchior Patricia A. Roome Eliane Leslau Silverman Olive Stickney Aritha Van Herk Muriel Stanley Venne Cora J. Voyageur

Author : Sarah Carter,Alvin Finkel,Peter Fortna
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Autochtones
ISBN : 9781897425800

Get Book

The West and Beyond by Sarah Carter,Alvin Finkel,Peter Fortna Pdf

The central aim of "The West and Beyond" is to evaluate and appraise the state of Western Canadian history, to acknowledge and assess the contributions of historians of the past and present, to showcase the research interests of a new generation of scholars, to chart new directions for the future, and stimulate further interrogations of our past.-- The book is broken into five sections and contains articles from both established and new scholars that broadly reflect findings of the conference "The West and Beyond:-- Historians Past, Present and Future" held in Edmonton, Alberta in the summer of 2008.-- The editors hope the collection will encourage dialogue among generations of historians of the West and among practitioners of diverse approaches to the past.-- The collection also reflects a broad range of disciplinary and professional interests suggesting a number of different ways to understand the West.

Author : W. M Elofson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Australia, Northern
ISBN : 1552387968

Get Book

So Far and Yet So Close by W. M Elofson Pdf

So Far and Yet So Close provides a comparative study of frontier cattle ranching in two societies on opposite ends of the globe. It is also an environmental history that at the same time centres on both the natural and frontier environments. There are many points at which the western Canadian and northern Australian cattle frontiers evoke comparisons. Most obviously they came to life at about the same time: late 1870s-early 1880s. In both cases corporations were heavy investors and utilized an open range system in which tens of thousands of cattle roamed over thousands of square acres. Rancher.

Author : Adele Perry,Esyllt W. Jones,Leah Morton
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887554339

Get Book

Place and Replace by Adele Perry,Esyllt W. Jones,Leah Morton Pdf

Place and Replace is a collection of recent interdisciplinary research into Western Canada that calls attention to the multiple political, social, and cultural labours performed by the concept of “place.” The book continues a long-standing tradition of situating questions of place at the centre of analyses of Western Canada’s cultures, pasts, and politics, while making clear that place is never stable, universal, or static. The essays here confirm the interests and priorities of Western Canadian scholarship that have emerged over the past forty years and remind us of the importance of Indigenous peoples, dispossession, and colonialism; of migration, race and ethnicity; of gender and women’s experiences; of the impact of the natural and built environment; and the impact of politics and the state.

Author : Anthony W. Rasporich,Maxwell Foran
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552380918

Get Book

Harm's Way by Anthony W. Rasporich,Maxwell Foran Pdf

The stories told in this collection, though tragic for many, illustrate the steadfast determination and courage of people in the face of misfortune and extreme distress. From the lesser-known weed outbreaks and tornadoes to the world-wide influenza outbreak in 1918 that devastated many Calgary families, these stories focus on the human side of these disasters. It may be a heroic individual or the collective response of a community, but what is truly remarkable in these stories is the human response to the world being turned upside down by famine and disease, by flood, fire, or rock slide, by wind and cold, by dynamite or gas explosions, or even by the seemingly mundane threat of weeds upon crops. It is the resolution to continue to fight and the persistence of the human spirit and its adaptability to challenges that is the true story of a century of development in western Canada

Author : Lorry W. Felske,Beverly Jean Rasporich
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Canada (ouest)
ISBN : 9781552381403

Get Book

Challenging Frontiers by Lorry W. Felske,Beverly Jean Rasporich Pdf

Challenging Frontiers: The Canadian West is a multidisciplinary study using critical essays as well as creative writing to explore the conceptions of the "West," both past and present. Considering topics such as ranching, immigration, art and architecture, as well as globalization and the spread of technology, these articles inform the reader of the historical frontier and its mythology, while also challenging and reassessing conventional analysis.

Author : J. W. Grant MacEwan,Maxwell Foran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1974*
Category : Northwest, Canadian
ISBN : OCLC:468410064

Get Book

A short history of Western Canada by J. W. Grant MacEwan,Maxwell Foran Pdf

Author : R. Douglas Francis,Chris Kitzan
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552382301

Get Book

The Prairie West as Promised Land by R. Douglas Francis,Chris Kitzan Pdf

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.

Author : Joel Deshaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Canada, Western
ISBN : 1773852671

Get Book

The American Western in Canadian Literature by Joel Deshaye Pdf

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 phenomenon. 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.

Author : J. Arthur Lower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015016911854

Get Book

Western Canada by J. Arthur Lower Pdf

Author : Heather Devine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1552388808

Get Book

Finding Directions West by Heather Devine Pdf

Western Canada has figured historically as a focus point for new directions in human thought and action, migrations of the mind and body, and personal journeys of both a substantial and transcendental nature. The essays in Finding Directions West interrogate the meaning of those journeys, their reality, their memory, and their constructed identities within Western Canada itself. The book situates landscapes and peopled places in the West within the larger study of Western Canada and its transborder relationships. It draws scholars from a vareity of disciplines within history, from gender studies, to museum studies, to environmental history, in order to examine afresh Western Canada as a place for finding new directions in the human experience.

Author : Valerie J. Korinek
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802095312

Get Book

Prairie Fairies by Valerie J. Korinek Pdf

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 : George Colpitts
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0774809639

Get Book

Game in the Garden by George Colpitts Pdf

In what is now western Canada, humans have long used wildlife in order to survive their surroundings, better understand their natural world, and form aspects of their identity. This book identifies the imaginative use of wild animals in early western society to explore a previously neglected avenue of social history. By examining grassroots conservation activities, early slaughter rituals, iconographic traditions, and subsistence strategies, Colpitts clearly demonstrates how western attitudes to wild animals changed according to subsistence and economic needs - through the fur trade, game and sport hunting, and farming - and how wildlife helped to shape the social relationships of people in western Canada. It is a thought-provoking work that will appeal to environmental historians, Native studies specialists, conservationists, and nature enthusiasts.

Author : Cornelius J. Jaenen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Belges / Canada (Ouest) / Histoire
ISBN : 1552382583

Get Book

Promoters, Planters, and Pioneers by Cornelius J. Jaenen Pdf

In this comprehensive study of Belgian settlement in western Canada, Cornelius Jaenen shows that Belgian immigration was unique in its character and brought with it significant benefits out of proportion to its comparatively small numbers.

Author : George Francis Gilman Stanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Northwest, Canadian
ISBN : OCLC:221702882

Get Book

The Birth of Western Canada by George Francis Gilman Stanley Pdf