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Laying Down the Lines
Between the Fourth Meridian and the Continental Divide is a vast land with some of the most varied landscapes, difficult terrain, and treacherous climates in Canada. The challenge of exploring, surveying and mapping the territory now known as Alberta holds some of the most fascinating stories in the 100-year-old province's history. From the first excursions of David Thompson and John Palliser to the ongoing work of surveying for industry and development, from the first hand-drawn maps and sextants to modern satellite imaging and computer modelling, historian Judy Larmour captures the grand arcs and the fascinating details of the dramatic centuries-long struggle to find and mark place.
Stop the Car!
Annotation Nestled between the majestic Rockies to the west and the vast Canadian Prairie to the east, the wild Boreal forest to the north and the arid shortgrass plains to the south, Alberta's agricultural heartland holds a wealth of fascinating natural and human history unknown to visitors?and even to most Alberta residents. Historian Judy Larmour and naturalist Henry Saley bring this hidden history to life through fourteen guided road trips. Mile by mile you'll be introduced to plants and wildlife, geological formations and anomalies, museums, restaurants, picnic spots, and the nooks and niches of Central Alberta's unique and exciting history and culture. What's a draped moraine? Where can you find beaked hazelnuts? How was logging done in early Alberta? Who were the African-American immigrants who settled near Breton? What's so great about muskeg? These are some of the thousands of tidbits you'll be treated to if you Stop the Car!
A Great Rural Sisterhood
In A Great Rural Sisterhood, Linda M. Ambrose uses a wealth of archival materials from both sides of the Atlantic to tell the story of Watt's remarkable life and the creation of the Associated Country Women of the World.
A Chain Of Surveyor Stories, volume 1
Nova Scotia Land Surveyors have experienced many diverse circumstances in their efforts to define and maintain the land tenure system of the Province. In the course of their survey work they all have reminiscences and anecdotes of unique experiences, distinctive characters, historical discoveries, bizarre deed descriptions, involved technical surveys, out of the way locations, differing opinions, etc. that have cropped up over time. Many are the tales told during evenings in a wilderness survey camp or wherever surveyors gather at their leisure. This anthology is just a small collection of surveyors’ stories gathered from the authors.
Mapper of Mountains
Mapper of Mountains follows the career of Dominion Land Surveyor Morrison Parsons Bridgland, who provided the first detailed maps of many regions of the Canadian Rockies. Between 1902 and 1930, this unheralded alpinist perfected phototopographical techniques to compile a series of mountaintop photographs during summers of field work, and spent his winters collating them to provide the Canadian government, tourists, and mountain climbers with accurate topographical maps. Bridgland was a great climber and co-founder of the Alpine Club of Canada. Mapper of Mountains also tells the story of the Rocky Mountain Repeat Photography Project, which studies the changes sustained in the Rockies, repeating the field work accomplished by Bridgland almost a century ago.
Unsettled Pasts
The traditional mythology of the West is dominated by male images: the fur trader, the Mountie, the missionary, the miner, the cowboy, the politician, the Chief. Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West claims to re-examine the West through women's eyes. It draws together contributions from researchers, scholars, and academic and community activists, and seeks to create dialogue across geographic, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries. Ranging from scholarly essays to poetry, these pieces offer the reader a sample of some of today's most innovative approaches to western Canadian women's history; several of the themes that run throughout the volume have only recently been critically addressed. ...
Give Your Other Vote to the Sister
Give Your Other Vote to the Sister tells the story of Roberta MacAdams, the first woman elected to the Alberta legislature. In fact, she was one of the first two women elected to a legislature anywhere in the British Empire. Her triumph was extraordinary for many reasons. Not only did she run while serving as a nursing sister overseas during the Great War, but over 90 per cent of her electors were men--Alberta soldiers stationed in England and in the muddy trenches of the Western Front. Give Your Other Vote to the Sister describes MacAdams' journey overseas, her work at a large military hospital in London, and the personal sacrifices she endured during the war. It also chronicles Debbie Marshall's own journey to reclaim MacAdams' life, one that took her across Canada and to the places where MacAdams lived and worked in England and France. It was a search that would change her own perceptions about how and why so may women willingly participated in the world's first "great war."
Athabasca Oil Sands
Covers the research - private, scholarly, and government - that went into developing the oil sands.
Culinary Landmarks
Culinary Landmarks is a definitive history and bibliography of Canadian cookbooks from the beginning, when La cuisinière bourgeoise was published in Quebec City in 1825, to the mid-twentieth century. Over the course of more than ten years Elizabeth Driver researched every cookbook published within the borders of present-day Canada, whether a locally authored text or a Canadian edition of a foreign work. Every type of recipe collection is included, from trade publishers' bestsellers and advertising cookbooks, to home economics textbooks and fund-raisers from church women's groups. The entries for over 2,200 individual titles are arranged chronologically by their province or territory of publ...
Alberta Formed - Alberta Transformed
Alberta Formed Alberta Transformed is a two-volume set spanning a remarkable 12,000 years of history and showcasing the work of 34 of Alberta's most respected scholars. Volume 1 sets the stage from human beginnings in Alberta to the eve of Alberta's inauguration as a province in 1905, while Volume 2 takes readers through the twentieth century and up to the 2005 centennial.
