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Looking Back
Canadian Women's Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History, and Identity
Häftad, 2010
489 kr
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When we think about women settlers on the Prairies, our notions tend to veer between the nostalgic image of the ""cheerful helpmate"" and the grim deprivation of the ""reluctant immigrant"". In this book, Leigh Matthews shows how a critical approach to the life-writing of individual prairie women …
Promoters, Planters, and Pioneers
The Course and Context of Belgian Settlement in Western Canada
Häftad, 2011
489 kr
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Promoters, Planters, and Pioneers is a 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.Canada's first Immigration …
Always an Adventure
An Autobiography
Häftad, 2011
414 kr
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Hugh Dempsey has for decades been one of Alberta's most prolific and influential public historians. Author of more than twenty books, he has also been ""on the ground floor"" of the development of many key Alberta institutions, including the Indian Association of Alberta, the Historical Society of …
Happyland
A History of the ""Dirty Thirties"" in Saskatchewan, 1914-1937
Häftad, 2011
474 kr
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Dirty Thirties is the sobriquet commonly applied to the agricultural crisis in the drylands of southern Saskatchewan in Canada that coincided with the Great Depression, and it is generally assumed that prior to this period healthier, normal conditions prevailed. In Happyland, Curtis McManus …
Cowboy Legend Volume 6
Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Ranching Frontier
Häftad, 2015
513 kr
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The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel - a rough, violent, one-dimensional drifter, or the stage cowboy …
Sharon Pollock
First Woman of Canadian Theatre
Av Donna Coates
Häftad, 2015
448 kr
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As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada's national theatre tradition, and she continues to produce new works and to contribute to Canadian theatre as passionately as she has done over the …
Finding Directions West
Readings That Locate and Dislocate Western Canada's Past
Av George Colpitts, Heather Devine
Häftad, 2017
401 kr
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In the past, Western Canada was a place of new directions in human thought and action, migrations of the mind and body, and personal journeys. This book anthology brings together studies exploring the way the west served as a place of constant movement between places of spiritual, subsistence and …
Writing Alberta
Building on a Literary Identity
Av George Melnyk, Donna Coates
Häftad, 2017
448 kr
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Alberta writing has a long tradition. Beginning with the pictographs of Writing-on-Stone, followed by Euro-Canadian exploration texts, the post-treaty writing of the agrarian colonization period, and into the present era, Alberta writing has come to be seen as a distinct literature. In this volume …
Ranching Women in Southern Alberta
Häftad, 2017
340 kr
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Settler ranching in southern Alberta conjures the image of a lone cowboy riding through the foothills or a stoic ranch hand roping errant cattle. But women have always played an integral part in the cattle industry, often working without recognition or support to meet the challenge of the …
Rocking P Ranch and the Second Cattle Frontier in Western Canada
Av Clay Chattaway, Warren Elofson
Häftad, 2019
484 kr
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The Rocking P Ranch was one of the most ambitious family ranches in Southern Alberta. Founded in 1900 by Roderick Riddle Macleary, the Rocking P flourished during the Second Cattle Frontier as open-range the Texas System ranches failed. Beginning in 1923, Maxine and Dorothy Macleay edited, …
Thresholds, Walls, and Bridges
Journeys Through the Borderlands of Historya
Inbunden, 2025
759 kr
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Thresholds, Walls, and Bridges is a collection of public lectures delivered by historian Dr. Elizabeth Jameson during her tenure as Imperial Oil-Lincoln McKay Chair in American Studies at the University of Calgary from 1999 to 2017.Together, these lectures represent the intellectual evolution of an …
Thresholds, Walls, and Bridges
Journeys Through the Borderlands of Historya
Häftad, 2025
398 kr
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Thresholds, Walls, and Bridges is a collection of public lectures delivered by historian Dr. Elizabeth Jameson during her tenure as Imperial Oil-Lincoln McKay Chair in American Studies at the University of Calgary from 1999 to 2017.Together, these lectures represent the intellectual evolution of an …
