Reproduction is the most emotionally complicated human activity. It transforms lives but it also creates fears and anxieties about women whose childbearing doesn’t conform to the norm.Baby Trouble in
Reproduction is the most emotionally complicated human activity. It transforms lives but it also creates fears and anxieties about women whose childbearing doesn’t conform to the norm.Baby Trouble in
Rick Ranson has collected stories from all over North America, from the DEW Line and the drill ships of Working North to the raging waters of the Mississippi in Paddling South. Now, join this engaging
Courtney W. Mason examines how the Nakoda peoples strategically used the Banff Indian Days festivals to gain access to their sacred lands and respond to colonial policies designed to repress their cul
Courtney W. Mason examines how the Nakoda peoples strategically used the Banff Indian Days festivals to gain access to their sacred lands and respond to colonial policies designed to repress their cul
In 1910, young Pierre Maturie bid farewell to his comfortablebourgeois existence in rural France and travelled to northern Albertain search of independence, adventure, and newfound prosperity. Somesix
Hidden Stonehenge is the remarkable chronicle of one man's thrilling quest to solve a profound archeological mystery. On the remote plains of southern Alberta sits an ancient temple older than England
Jasper National Park is an international travel destination, world heritage site, and icon of Canadian identity. Although national parks occupy a prominent place in the Canadian imagination, we are on
In this autobiography, Dempsey, a historian and former curator of the Glenbow Museum in Calgary and editor of Alberta History magazine, recounts his careers as a journalist, government policy writer,
Edmonton when young ?(circa 1910) never thought of itself as small. The citizens were young, an unlikely concentration of resourceful individuals attracted from older places where they’d have to wait
While contemporaries and historians alike hailed the establishment of Buffalo National Park in Wainwright, Alberta, as a wildlife saving effort, the political climate of the early 20th century worked
The first book-length biography of Ernest Manning, the longest-serving premier of Alberta, who directed the transformation of the province from Depression-era poverty to modern, oil-based affluence.Br
In 1906, Nello Vernon-Wood (1882-1978) reinvented himself as Tex Wood, Banff hunting guide and writer of "yarns of the wilderness by a competent outdoorsman." His homespun stories of a vanishing world
Alberta lost one of its greatest treasures--a woman who not only voiced her thoughts, but also acted upon them. Lois Hole was a compassionate being who remained, even as Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
The generation to which Joe and Josephine Crowshoe belonged spanned more than the length of their lifetimes. That generation fought heroically in world wars and at the same time raised children under
In 1949, Margaret Norquay moved with her new husband, a minister with the United Church of Canada, to Mayerthorpe, in northern Alberta, a village in the centre of what was in those days a pioneer hint
"Many argue that the Lubicon, a small Cree nation in northern Alberta, have been denied their unalienable right to self-determination by the Canadian government. In a country such as Canada, some see
?[Marshall’s] work in responding to the challenge of exploring a little-known life should be an inspiration to other students of history ? people across Canada will find it a pleasant way to become be
Behind the Man is the unique ?biography” of Alberta political figure John Lee Laurie, a key proponent of Aboriginal rights in the 1940s and 1950s. Before 1961, the Aboriginal people of Canada could on
By examining history and social studies curricula and textbooks used in Alberta schools from 1905 to 1980, von Heyking (elementary education, U. of Alberta) demonstrates the ways Albertans were inculc
