Customer Reviews (1)

Things I Never Knew as an Albertan
This is a great little travel book; I keep it in my glove compartment now. It's the kind of information that appears on those "historical marker" and "points of interest" signs you fly by as you're travelling and then wonder about for the next 5 miles. The information is presented as though you're driving along one of the main highways, but you don't have to be going anywhere to enjoy this book. There's lot of information in it about Alberta that I didn't have a clue about even though I've lived here over 20 years. (For example, did you know that Alberta was called Alberta because Louisiana and Carolina were already taken?) Nice, easily digested short blurbs. Definitely worth it if you're interested in the history of Alberta.The best of its kind on Alberta that I've come across. ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Alberta History, published by Historical Society of Alberta on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 3471 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Good old Glenmore school days.(in south-west Calgary )
Author: Clarence Patton
Publication: Alberta History (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2004
Publisher: Historical Society of Alberta
Volume: 52Issue: 3Page: 11(6)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Alberta History, published by Historical Society of Alberta on September 22, 2002. The length of the article is 2522 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Recollections of the life and death of the Embarras Airport.(built in World War II in northern Alberta)
Author: Edna C. Wellman
Publication: Alberta History (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2002
Publisher: Historical Society of Alberta
Volume: 50Issue: 4Page: 12(5)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Alberta History, published by Historical Society of Alberta on January 1, 2010. The length of the article is 7777 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: For "Romance and Adventure": wilderness, masculinity, and the Osttheimer Expedition of 1927.(Essay)
Author: Jeffrey Doherty
Publication: Alberta History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2010
Publisher: Historical Society of Alberta
Volume: 58Issue: 1Page: 12(11)

Article Type: Essay

Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Alberta History, published by Historical Society of Alberta on September 22, 2009. The length of the article is 2451 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Operation "lifesaver" and the evacuation in Calgary.
Author: Julie Phillips
Publication: Alberta History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2009
Publisher: Historical Society of Alberta
Volume: 57Issue: 4Page: 18(5)

Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Alberta History, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2005. The length of the article is 6986 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: "An all round Indian affair": the native gatherings at Macleod, 1924 & 1925.
Author: Yale Belanger
Publication: Alberta History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 53Issue: 3Page: 13(11)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
Canada is the 5th largest producer of energy in the world, producing about 6% of global energy supplies. It is the world's largest producer of natural uranium, producing one-third of global supply, and is also the world's leading producer of hydro-electricity, accounting for 13% of global production. It is also a significant producer of petroleum, natural gas, and coal. Only Russia, China, the United States and Saudi Arabia produce more total energy than Canada. The United States is Canada's major trade market for energy products and services. Canada sends around 98% of its total energy exports to the United States, and in return Canada is the largest supplier of energy imports to the world's biggest economy. Canada also exports significant amounts of uranium and coal to Asia, Europe and Latin America. Despite being a net energy exporter, Canada also imports large amounts of energy products. It is both an importer and exporter of coal and petroleum because its major coal and oil fields are located in Western Canada, particularly in Alberta, far removed from its main industrial centers in Ontario and Quebec. ... Read more

Product Description
The fledgling province of Alberta was neck-deep in trouble. The settlement of the Peace River country reached dangerously too far, the southeastern dry belt disintegrated in drought, colliers agonized over life and limb, and men of the cloth were stretched to the breaking point. The themes of adversity and victories of the spirit draw together the stories of ordinary people in early Alberta. ... Read more

Product Description
The reader will experience first-hand the personality, characteristics, and sometimes remote environment of each of these healers, visionaries, storytellers, and spiritualists through Dianne Meili's faithful re-telling of the interviews she conducted with each during the two years she spent travelling throughout Alberta. ... Read more

Product Description
This heavily illustrated, full-color book uses the framework of historical narrative to elucidate the past 11,000 years of Aboriginal history in present-day Alberta. In so doing, it conveys the challenges that Aboriginal people have confronted and celebrates the enduring legacy that they have created. From medicine wheels, buffalo jumps, and rock art images, the story moves forward through the fur trade era, the disappearance of the bison, and the long years of cultural suppression that followed the signing of treaties. Importantly, the story carries through to the present day, exploring grassroots political and cultural movements of the 1960s, contemporary self-government initiatives, and the ongoing reclamation of Aboriginal voice.

Aboriginal Cultures in Alberta, Five Hundred Generations also showcases the diversity of Aboriginal groups in Alberta. The book was developed in consultation with and features the experiences and perspectives of Elders and representatives from First Nations and Metis communities throughout the province. With its recognition that Aboriginal people are a vital part of contemporary society, Aboriginal Cultures in Alberta, Five Hundred Generations makes an important contribution toward fostering an understanding of Aboriginal history and culture in Alberta.

"Aboriginal Cultures in Alberta: Five Hundred Generations" was the also the Royal Alberta Museum's exhibition that was unlike any other in Canada: more than 3,000 artifacts, recorded voices, film, dynamic lighting, interactive computer technology and Aboriginal interpreters told a story of triumph and survival. ... Read more

Product Description
Buffalo conjure up the West the way no other symbol can. They hold a special place in our culture and imagination. In this prize-winning collection, writers reveal the buffalo in plains ecology and culture from prehistoric times to its present and uncertain future. ... Read more

Product Description
Most of Alberta's settlements, stations and post offices were named by the second decade of the 20th century. Many of these names have disappeared from the map because of "progress" and urbanization. Over 75 of those place names were chosen in honor of or in connection with men and women of the pen (or brush) – poets, novelists, historians, jurists, philosophers, politicians, scientists, dramatists, artists, composers, clergy, educators, and journalists, among others. Our pioneers chose well in the naming of their communities. Those names remind us of those energetic and talented people of the pen. This study is one attempt to preserve that heritage. Obviously some of those pens were more productive and influential than others ... Read more

Product Description
This book explores the application of liberalism in the period between 1877 and 1927 in southern Alberta and the British Columbia interior. In these regions at least, liberalism proved to be an exclusionary force that allowed for extraordinary measures to be employed to remove Indigenous peoples from the territories of their ancestors. The expansion of liberalism, diverse and multifaceted in construction, but undeniably debilitating in its impact on First Nations people, was facilitated, fashioned, and justified by means of disciplinary surveillance. In addition, the surveillance network (which included government officials, police officers, church representatives, ordinary settlers, and others) clearly functioned to inculcate Anglo-Canadian liberal capitalist values, structures, and interests as normal, natural, and beyond reproach. At the same time, the network operated to exclude or restructure the economic, political, social, and spiritual tenets of Indigenous cultures.

While none of this proceeded unchallenged, surveillance served as well to mitigate against, even if it could never completely neutralize, resistance. Smith provides important historical context to the current circumstances in Western Canada in which Indigenous peoples must struggle in the courts, at treaty negotiating tables, and by extralegal means to obtain justice and security for their families and communities. ... Read more

Product Description
Founded in 1905, the High River Times served a community of small town advertisers and an extensive hinterland of ranchers and farmers in southern Alberta. Under the ownership of the Charles Clark family for over 60 years, the Times established itself as the epitome of the rural weekly press in Alberta. Even Joe Clark, the future prime minister, worked for the family business. While historians rely heavily on local newspapers to write about rural and small town life, Paul Voisey has studied the influence of the Times on shaping the community of High River. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

An enjoyable and informative excursion
High River And The Times: An Alberta Community And Its Weekly Newspaper 1905-1966 is the true story of a small-town and its weekly newspaper "High River Times". An enjoyable and informative excursion through six decades of change, including two world wars, and the relationship the small newspaper had in recording, articulating, and defending local attitudes, activities, and aspirations, High River And The Times is an aptly researched an endearling presented tour through an era gone by, but not long past. ... Read more

Product Description
C is for Chinook: An Alberta Alphabet.Readers young and old can trek the Rocky Mountains, canoe across beautiful Lake Louise, and still have energy to visit capital city Edmonton for an Oilers game.From Big Horn Sheep to renowned doctor, Mary Percy Jackson, author Dawn Welykochy recounts the facts, faces and features that make Alberta unique. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Beautiful Art!
The art in this one is gorgeous! A beautiful representation of Canada, it is as much a coffee table book as a children's book. I bought it just for the illustrations.
Kerri Bennett Williamson, Author
... Read more

Product Description
A lovingly detailed history of the North Saskatchewan River Corridor, Shunda Basin, Brazeau Collieries and Nordegg, from before the arrival of Europeans, through the fur trade and exploration years, to the discovery of coal and the development of the region to the present day. Unique in its conception, development and population, the mining town of Nordegg in particular offers a lasting reminder of the persistence and vision of Alberta's pioneer generations. ... Read more