Memories of Mundare

Memories of Mundare

Author: Mundare Historical Society

Publisher: Mundare, Alta. : Mundare Historical Society

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 567

ISBN-13: 9780889250970

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Ukrainian Otherlands

Ukrainian Otherlands

Author: Natalia Khanenko-Friesen

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2015-07-27

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0299303446

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Exploring a rich array of folk traditions that developed in the Ukrainian diaspora and in Ukraine during the twentieth century, Ukrainian Otherlands is an innovative exploration of modern ethnic identity and the deeply felt (but sometimes deeply different) understandings of ethnicity in homeland and diaspora.


Memoirs

Memoirs

Author: Anthony Sylla

Publisher: Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Assumption Province

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13:

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Ukrainians in Canada

Ukrainians in Canada

Author: Orest T. Martynowych

Publisher: CIUS Press

Published: 1991-07-02

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13: 9780920862766

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The history of Ukrainian immigration, settlement, and community-building in Canada.


Alberta Newspapers 1880-1982: An Historical Directory

Alberta Newspapers 1880-1982: An Historical Directory

Author: Gloria Strathern

Publisher: University of Alberta

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 9780888641373

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Studies of Alberta's newspapers have generally concentrated on better-known newspapers published in major centres and the organs of significant political parties. Gloria H. Strathern's exhaustive historical directory makes it possible to review the role of the press on a more comprehensive basis.


The Beaver Hills Country

The Beaver Hills Country

Author: Graham MacDonald

Publisher: Athabasca University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1897425376

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This book explores a relatively small, but interesting and anomalous, region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers. Ecological themes, such as climatic cycles, ground water availability, vegetation succession and the response of wildlife, and the impact of fires, shape the possibilities and provide the challenges to those who have called the region home or used its varied resources: Indians, Metis, and European immigrants.


Community Music in Alberta

Community Music in Alberta

Author: George W. Lyon

Publisher: University of Calgary Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1895176832

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Defining community music as non-commercial music performed by local musicians for members of a small group, traditional music aficionado and English professor Lyon (Mount Royal College, Calgary) offers a historical survey of the diverse musical styles played primarily by nonprofessional performers of Alberta, Canada. Abundant, fine b & w historical photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.


Baba's Kitchen Medicines

Baba's Kitchen Medicines

Author: Michael Mucz

Publisher: University of Alberta

Published: 2022-08-29

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1772126535

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Michael Mucz's prolonged primary research into Ukrainian-Canadian folk history culminates in Baba's Kitchen Medicines. This book bursts with the cultural memory of pioneering folk from Canada's prairieland. From fever to frostbite, this incomparable compendium of tinctures, poultices, salves, decoctions, infusions, plasters, and tonics will fascinate and often mortify readers from all walks of life. The comprehensiveness of Mucz's research and interviews framed with deftly painted historical, cultural, and botanical backgrounds guarantee that this chapter of the Canadian story will continue to be told for generations to come. It is a deep, charming, and often moving work of intricate anthropology that will stir scholar and non-specialist alike.