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Author : James Henry Gray
Publisher : Saskatoon : Western Producer Prairie Books
ISBN 13 : 9780888331915
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Red Lights on the Prairies written by James Henry Gray and published by Saskatoon : Western Producer Prairie Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James H. Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (715 download)
Download or read book Red Lights on the Prairies written by James H. Gray and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Henry Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (977 download)
Download or read book Red Lights on the Prairies written by James Henry Gray and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459702166
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Rails Across the Prairies written by Ron Brown and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the evolution of the rail legacy of the Canadian Prairies from the arrival of the first engine on a barge to today’s realities. Rails Across the Prairies traces the evolution of Canada’s rail network, including the appearance of the first steam engine on the back of a barge. The book looks at the arrival of European settlers before the railway and examines how they coped by using ferry services on the Assiniboine and North Saskatchewan Rivers. The work then follows the building of the railways, the rivalries of their owners, and the unusual irrigation works of Canadian Pacific Railway. The towns were nearly all the creation of the railways from their layout to their often unusual names. Eventually, the rail lines declined, though many are experiencing a limited revival. Learn what the heritage lover can still see of the Prairies’ railway legacy, including existing rail operations and the stories the railways brought with them. Many landmarks lie vacant, including ghost towns and elevators, while many others survive as museums or interpretative sites.
Author : Robert Collins
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551995131
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Prairie People written by Robert Collins and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate look at the people of the prairies in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta – who they are, how they live, what makes them a breed apart The prairies are Robert Collins’s spiritual home. He was born and raised on a Saskatchewan farm, but spent most of his adult life living elsewhere. Now he returns to his homeland to pay homage to the special character of the people who live in this unique region of Canada. Prairie People is an absorbing combination of stories, anecdotes, and touches of history told in the voices of ordinary people and linked by the author’s own narrative and memories. It explores the characteristics that define these people to themselves and to the rest of Canada. Prairie people are clearly not all alike: city and town dwellers differ from farmers, farmers from ranchers, ranchers and cowboys from oilmen. But many of the stereotypes are true. They are defiantly pessimistic. They believe they are tougher than everybody else. They are uncommonly independent and self-reliant. In this sympathetic yet realistic portrait, Collins looks at where the original settlers of the prairies came from. He describes how nature shaped them, and how hard work through good times and bad toughened them. He finds evidence of their legendary friendliness and neighbourliness. And he seeks to understand their deep attachment either to the left and right in politics and their unifying distrust of “Central Canada.”
Author : Warren M. Elofson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773574417
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Frontier Cattle Ranching in the Land and Times of Charlie Russell written by Warren M. Elofson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004-04-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Frontier Cattle Ranching in the Land and Times of Charlie Russell, Warren Elofson debunks the myth of the American "wild west" and the Canadian "mild west" by demonstrating that cattlemen on both sides of the forty-ninth parallel shared a common experience. Focusing on Montana, Southern Alberta, Southern Saskatchewan, and the well-known figure of Charlie Russell - an artist and storyteller from that era who spent time on both sides of the border - Elofson examines the lives of cowboys and ranch owners, looking closely at the prevalence of drunkenness, prostitution, gunplay, rustling, and vigilante justice in both Canada and the United States.
Author : C. Nathan Hatton
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887554970
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Thrashing Seasons written by C. Nathan Hatton and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horseback wrestling, catch-as-catch-can, glima; long before the advent of today’s WWE, forms of wrestling were practised by virtually every cultural group. C. Nathan Hatton’s Thrashing Seasons tells the story of wrestling in Manitoba from its earliest documented origins in the eighteenth century to the Great Depression. Wrestling was never merely a sport: residents of Manitoba found meaning beyond the simple act of two people struggling for physical advantage on a mat, in a ring, or on a grassy field. Frequently controversial and often divisive, wrestling was nevertheless a popular and resilient cultural practice that proved adaptable to the rapidly changing social conditions in western Canada during its early boom period. In addition to chronicling the colourful exploits of the many athletes who shaped wrestling’s early years, Hatton explores wrestling as a social phenomenon intimately bound up with debates around respectability, ethnicity, race, class, and idealized conceptions of masculinity. In doing so, Thrashing Seasons illuminates wrestling as a complex and socially significant cultural activity, one that has been virtually unexamined by Canadian historians looking at the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author : John Palliser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Solitary Hunter; Or, Sporting Adventures in the Prairies written by John Palliser and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Palliser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Solitary Rambles and Adventures of a Hunter in the Prairies written by John Palliser and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Melnyk
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888643247
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (432 download)
Download or read book The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two written by George Melnyk and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the companion to the landmark volume The Literary History of Alberta, Volume One: From Writing-on-Stone to World War Two, George Melnyk examines Alberta literature in the second half of the twentieth century. At last, Melnyk argues, Alberta writers have found their voice—and their accomplishments have been remarkable. The contradictory landscape, the stereotypes of the Indian, the Mountie, and the Cowboy, and the language of the Other, speaking from the margins—these elements all left their impressions on the consciousness of early Alberta. But writers in the last few decades have turned this inheritance to their advantage, to create compelling stories about this place and its people. Today, Melnyk discovers, Alberta writers can appreciate not only this achievement, but also its essential source: the symbolic communication of Writing-on-Stone. The Literary History of Alberta, Volume Two extends the study of Alberta's cultural history to the present day. It is a vital text for anyone interested in Alberta's vibrant literary culture.
Author : University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center
Publisher : University of Regina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780889771031
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Mounted Police and Prairie Society, 1873-1919 written by University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays presents a variety of scholarly explorations of the nature and role of the Mounties in the Prairie Provinces from the formation of the North West Mounted Police in 1873-74 to its transformation into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1919-20. The essays are grouped into five broad themes: relations with First Nations; law enforcement; social issues, including relations with minority groups and labour movements; characteristics of the police force; and crisis and change (police-immigrant relations, response to labour unrest, and the origins of domestic intelligence and counter-subversion). An epilogue presents the case for the dramatic change of the force after 1919-20 and the new force's use of the positive image created by the old force.
Author : John T Price
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609383109
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Tallgrass Prairie Reader written by John T Price and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tallgrass prairie of the early 1800s, a beautiful and seemingly endless landscape of wildflowers and grasses, is now a tiny remnant of its former expanse. As a literary landscape, with much of the American environmental imagination focused on a mainstream notion of more spectacular examples of wild beauty, tallgrass is even more neglected. Prairie author and advocate John T. Price wondered what it would take to restore tallgrass prairie to its rightful place at the center of our collective identity. The answer to that question is his Tallgrass Prairie Reader, a first-of-its-kind collection of literature from and about the tallgrass bioregion. Focusing on autobiographical nonfiction in a wide variety of forms, voices, and approaches—including adventure narrative, spiritual reflection, childhood memoir, Native American perspectives, literary natural history, humor, travel writing and reportage—he honors the ecological diversity of tallgrass itself and provides a range of models for nature writers and students. The chronological arrangement allows readers to experience tallgrass through the eyes and imaginations of forty-two authors from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Writings by very early explorers are followed by works of nineteenth-century authors that reflect the fear, awe, reverence, and thrill of adventure rampant at the time. After 1900, following the destruction of the majority of tallgrass, much of the writing became nostalgic, elegiac, and mythic. A new environmental consciousness asserted itself midcentury, as personal responses to tallgrass were increasingly influenced by larger ecological perspectives. Preservation and restoration—informed by hard science—emerged as major themes. Early twenty-first-century writings demonstrate an awareness of tallgrass environmental history and the need for citizens, including writers, to remember and to help save our once magnificent prairies.
Author : Craig Brown
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773587888
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Illustrated History of Canada written by Craig Brown and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987, The Illustrated History of Canada was the first comprehensive, authoritative one-volume history of the country. It featured chapters by seven of Canada's leading historians and hundreds of engravings, lithographs, cartoons, maps, posters, and photographs. Together, these elements created a sweeping chronicle of Canada from its earliest times to yesterday's news. Now The Illustrated History of Canada has been fully updated to bring readers into the twenty-first century, with new material on such topics as the rise of small government, the recognition of Native land claims, Canada's role in the post-Cold War "peace," and the 2011 federal election. More than ever, The Illustrated History of Canada is a must-have reference guide for all Canadians interested in the history - and the future - of our country. Contributors include Ramsay Cook (emeritus, York University), Christopher Moore (Toronto writer), Desmond Morton (McGill University), Arthur Ray (emeritus, University of British Columbia), Peter Waite (emeritus, Dalhousie University), and Graeme Wynn (University of British Columbia).
Author : Brenda Jackson
Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 : 9780451078285
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (782 download)
Download or read book Red Lights on the Praries written by Brenda Jackson and published by Signet. This book was released on 1973-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lesley Erickson
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774818603
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Westward Bound written by Lesley Erickson and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Westward Bound debunks the myth of Canada’s peaceful West and the masculine conceptions of law and violence upon which it rests by shifting the focus from Mounties and whisky traders to criminal cases involving women between 1886 and 1940. Erickson’s analysis of these cases shows that, rather than a desire to protect, official responses to the most intimate or violent acts betrayed an impulse to shore up the liberal order by maintaining boundaries between men and women, Native people and newcomers, and capital and labour. Victims and accused could only hope to harness entrenched ideas about masculinity, femininity, race, and class in their favour. This fascinating exploration of hegemony and resistance in key contact zones draws prairie Canada into larger debates about law, colonialism, and nation building.
Author : Sara Williams
Publisher : Coteau Books
ISBN 13 : 1550505424
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Creating the Prairie Xeriscape written by Sara Williams and published by Coteau Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to drought-resistant gardening, including a colour-photographic reference of xeriscape plants, and an extensive section of garden design plans. Over the last ten years ‘xeriscape’ has become a watchword for water-conscious gardeners. Extensively revised and updated, Creating the Prairie Xeriscape moves on from the basics to give today’s gardeners a complete guide to planning, designing and maintaining their own xeriscape gardens. Full-colour throughout, Creating the Prairie Xeriscape contains a reference section of ideal plants for the xeriscape garden. These descriptions, with advice on culturing and best growing conditions, enable gardeners to select a range of plants for year-round landscape value. You’ll also find chapters on native plants and vegetables for the xeriscape, as well as extensive tables and a quick reference guide for planting choices.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Army and Navy Chronicle, and Scientific Repository written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
