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A Probe Into the Demographic Structure of Nineteenth Century Red River
(University of Alberta Press, 1976)
To the casual observer in 1830 Red River appeared a picturesque rural backwater dotted with church steeples and numerous windmills. The impression would not have been inaccurate. By 1830 the settlement had recovered from ...
Cyberimperialisme et marginalisation des autochtones au Canada
(Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique INRS Urbanisation, Culture et Société, 2000)
Les populations indigènes du Canada seraient-elles sujettes, comme les. autres populations du Canada, à un « cyberimpérialisme » insidieux, qui menace de dénaturer et de marginaliser leurs cultures, voire de les éliminer ...
The Fur Trade and Western Canadian Society, 1670-1870
(The Canadian Historical Association, 1987)
The political, economic, and social history of present day Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, was, for the first two hundred years of European contact, a product of the fur trade. At various posts ...
The Historiography of the Red River Settlement, 1830-1868
(Prairie Forum, 1981)
In the many studies of the Red River Settlement written since 1856, the prime factors affecting the Settlement have been variously conceived as economic, geographic or political. In contrast to the traditional historical ...
Some comments on the social origins of the Riel Protest of 1869
(1979)
The English-speaking folk of Red River looked with excitement and hope on the debates that surrounded the confederation of the eastern provinces. The Protestant Canadians, arriving in vocal and visible numbers in the 1860s ...
Alberta : A Community Development Heritage Alternative
(ICOMOS Canada, 1996)
Since 1980, twelve new heritage attractions have been constructed by the Province of Alberta with three new facilities opening since 1990 despite a major recession. All but the Royal Tyrrell Museum and its Field Station ...
Canadian memory institutions and the digital revolution : the last five years
(1998)
Three American companies carry 80 per cent of Internet traffic. America Online has a large financial interest in two of these companies. Today there are about 1.5 million connections to the Internet; by 2010 there will be ...
The Anglican Church and the disintegration of Red River society, 1818-1870.
(McLellan and Stewart Limited, 1976)
In 1821 Red River was desolate, destitute and barbarous. The uncompromising struggle of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company for control of the British North American Fur trade bred ruthlessness and violence. ...
Metis Studies : The Development of a Field and New Directions
(University of Alberta Press, 2001)
Until recently, sources for Mets studies have been few both for classroom use as well as academic reflection. Lately, there has been a virtual explosion of interest, although largely among non-Mets historians. Now this to ...
The Rise of the Heritage Priesthood or the Decline of Community Based Heritage
(Historic Preservation Forum, 1998)
In October 1996 the United States Department of the Interior sent a cover letter for a lengthy document to state historic preservation officers and copied "tribes, professional organizations, and other interested parties." ...