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Author: Cornelius J. Jaenen
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781552382585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: Reinhold Kramer
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780195416862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1899, Hilda Blake, a domestic servant in Winnipeg, shot her pregnant employer. Cain's Daughter offers a fascinating, well-written account of this extraordinary legal and historical event, Along the way, the book skillfully illuminates social and political life in turn of the century Canada.
Author: Doris Jeanne MacKinnon
Publisher: University of Alberta
Published: 2018-02-08
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 1772122718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade—one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudson's Bay Company tradition—who settled in southern Alberta as the Canadian West transitioned to a sedentary agricultural and industrial economy. MacKinnon provides rare insight into their lives, demonstrating the contributions Metis women made to the building of the Prairie West. This is a compelling tale of two women's acts of quiet resistance in the final days of the British Empire.
Author: Donald W. Sinnema
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1552381730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranslated for the first time from Dutch to English, this collection of letters offers a unique perspective on the early pioneer years of the Dutch community in southeastern Alberta. Based on extensive research, the book also includes maps, archival photographs, and an appendix listing all the Dutch settlers in the region between the years of 1903 and 1914. The First Dutch Settlement in Alberta is an invaluable and fascinating collection of primary source material that offers a wealth of information for genealogists and historians, and celebrates the pioneering spirit of Alberta's early Dutch community.
Author: Klaus Martens
Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9783826017568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susan Allison
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780774803922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1860, at the age of fourteen, Susan Louisa Moir left England for British Columbia. After settling initially at Hope, she lived briefly in both Victoria and New Westminster, then B.C.'s two most important settlements. Returning to Hope, she helped her mother open the community's first school, and in 1868 she married John Fall Allison, riding on her honeymoon over the Allison Trail into the unsettled Similkameen Valley. Her record of the voyage, of Victoria, New Westminster, and Hope as they were in the 1860s, and her memories of the isolated but fulfilling life she, her husband, and their fourteen children led in the Similkameen and Okanagan Valleys provide a unique view of the pioneer mind and spirit.
Author: Daryl Ashby
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781553800279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historical biography--based on the life of British Columbia pioneer John Muir--tells the amazing story of a family from Scotland who came out to Canada in the late 1840s to work as "consignee" labourers for the Hudson's Bay Company. Ashby recreates the story of the Muirs' struggle to develop a place for themselves in the hierarchic colony ruled by James Douglas. With their vision of a country based on democratic principles, the Muirs fought to bring a new way of life to the West Coast. Drawing on the Muir family diaries, Ashby recounts the family's voyage from Scotland, their first years of toil in the coal mines near Fort Rupert on northern Vancouver Island, and their challenge to the Company when they initiated what may have been the first strike in Canada. Muir went on to become a magistrate with his own sense of justice for the working man, and later a Member of the first Legislative Assembly. So fascinating is Muir's personality and so intriguing is his struggle for a democratic way of life that his life's story reads at times like a novel. Ashby is to be commended for vividly bringing back to life this historic figure, a man who deserves to be better known in his own right and for his contribution to the development of the West
Author: Austin Albert Mardon
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1897472129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCome explore the history of Albertas rich political landscape and learn about the people who shaped the face of a province. Within these pages, youll meet the men and women who forged the politics of the region during the Roaring Twenties and the height of the Great Depression.
Author: Sarah Carter
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 1552381773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Ernest Boyce Ingles
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 948
ISBN-13: 9780802048257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Prairie Provinces cover Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
