Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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(1993). A Feminist/Postmodernist Methodology for Educational Research.
(1993)A paper for presentation to the Education Graduate Students' Association, University of Alberta. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Interpretation on the New Frontier:The Alberta Experience
(Alberta Museums Review, 1994)The author has provided a thought-provoking analysis of the origins and influences of the heritage interpretation field in Alberta. He explores the effect successive generations of immigrants have had on the culture of the ... -
Time for a Change? The Alberta Historical Resources Act
(Legacy Magazine, 2000-01)The Alberta Historical Resources Act was a product of several well-attended hearings during 1970-71, chaired by Richard G. Forbis, a leading archaeologist and professor at the University of Calgary. Intended to preserve ... -
The Medicine Line and the Thin Red Line
(Montana, the Magazine of Western History, 1996)The Medicine Line, the name given by the Blackfoot to the Canadian-American border, reflects the "magic" that it imposes on certain people. How can similar peoples sharing the same continent be so different when divided ... -
Who matters? Public history and the invention of the Canadian past
(Acadiensis, 2000)There is no longer any real dispute that the past, as distinct from traditions, is an invention based on a careful selection of apparently empirical evidence. Historians now accept that there is no "ultimate" truth; there ... -
A snug little flock : the social origins of the Riel Resistance, 1869-70
(Watson and Dwyer, 1991)Questions about the identities of the mixed-blood Indian-European peoples of Canada and the United States have puzzled historians and anthropologists in both countries. Who are the mixedbloods of North America? Why do they ... -
The Rev. James Evans and the social antagonisms of the fur trade society, 1840-1846
(Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1974)In 1839 the Hudson's Bay Company invited four Methodist missionaries, James Evans, William Mason, Robert T. Rundle and George Barnley, to educate the heathen in Rupert's Land. By 1848 only Mason remained, and in 1854 he ... -
Protestant agricultural Zions for the western Indian
(Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society, 1972-09)Three evangelical Protestant denominations, the Anglicans, Methodists and Presbyterians established missions in the Canadian West from 1820 to 1870. Their success was marginal, with no missionary achieving the ultimate ... -
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. ... -
'Corruption' at Moose
(The Beaver, 1979)On the cold, desolate, wind-swept shore of Hudson Bay, winters were long and there was nothing but brandy and talk to relieve the boredom of the endless ice and the interminable meals of salt geese and dried pease. Tempers ...