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Author :John West Chalmers Publisher :Boreal Institute for Northern Studies, University of Alberta ISBN 13 : Total Pages :140 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Land of Peter Pond by : John West Chalmers
Download or read book The Land of Peter Pond written by John West Chalmers and published by Boreal Institute for Northern Studies, University of Alberta. This book was released on 1974 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses primarily on northeastern Alberta.
Book Synopsis Harold Innis on Peter Pond by : William J. Buxton
Download or read book Harold Innis on Peter Pond written by William J. Buxton and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his writings on economic history and communications, Harold Innis also produced a body of biographical work that paid particular attention to cultural memory and how it is enriched by the study of neglected historical figures. In this compelling volume, William Buxton addresses Innis's engagement with the legacy of the fur trader and adventurer Peter Pond. Harold Innis on Peter Pond comprises eight texts by Innis, including his 1930 biography of Pond as well as his writings on the explorer's myriad activities. The book also features a collection of eight letters exchanged between Innis and Florence Cannon, a descendent of Pond with a strong interest in her ancestor's life and times, and an unpublished 1932 article on Pond's 1773–75 activities as a fur trader on the upper Mississippi, written by Innis's former student R. Harvey Fleming. Situating Innis's writings on Pond in relation to his broader body of biographical work, Buxton interprets what these texts tell us about Innis's intellectual practice, historiography, and the writing of biography. The book explores how Innis's perspectives shifted with changing intellectual and political circumstances and shows that his advocacy of Pond as an unrecognized "father of confederation" challenged conventional views of Canadian nation-building. A critical edition of previously overlooked biographical texts, Harold Innis on Peter Pond traces what these writings disclose about the biographer's character and values even as they discuss their subject.
Book Synopsis Peter Pond - Fur Trader and Adventurer by : Harold Adams Innis
Download or read book Peter Pond - Fur Trader and Adventurer written by Harold Adams Innis and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the extraordinary life of Peter Pond, an intrepid explorer whose passion for adventure knew no bounds. Born in Milford, Connecticut, Pond ventured far from his homeland to the untamed lands of northwestern North America. As a founding member of the North West Company, he played a pivotal role in shaping the fur trade industry and establishing trading posts across vast territories. From treacherous encounters with rival companies to his extensive explorations of rivers and lakes, Pond's legacy is one of courage and determination. Follow his remarkable exploits, marked by danger, discovery, and the relentless pursuit of uncharted territories.
Download or read book Land of Giants written by David Lavender and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the explorers, traders, settlers, and industrialists who came to the Pacific Northwest during its 200-year development.
Book Synopsis The Land of Peter Pond by : John J. Chalmers
Download or read book The Land of Peter Pond written by John J. Chalmers and published by CCI Press. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s, an era of actual and threatened energy shortages, Canada and indeed all of North America, were paying increased attention to the fabulous oil sands of northeastern Alberta. Although rich in their promise for the future, the sands were no new discovery — fur traders and explorers commented on them for over two hundred years. And for more than half a century, scientists and engineers wrestled with the problems of separating the oil from the sand and delivering it to market at a competitive price. But these rich resources do not exist in vacuo; the exploitation of the oil sands has had enormous consequences, not always foreseen, on the region and its people. The purpose of this publication was not to be a manual on the petrochemical industry, but to describe briefly, and in non-technical terms, the oil sand area and its people, and to tell something of their rich historical and other background.
Download or read book CRM written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In Search of My Father by : Marion Elizabeth Fawkes
Download or read book In Search of My Father written by Marion Elizabeth Fawkes and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1994-06-30 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Florence Nightingale and Sir Alexander Mackenzie become part of the same family history? And how does Captain Booty Graves fit into the picture? Who was the well-respected doctor in London, Ontario, son of a Northwest partner and Metis mother, who married a grandniece of a British aristocrat? Who was the first Newfoundlander, the grandson of a merchant seaman, to become a member of the federal government? This is very much a Canadian story. What begins as research, by the daughter he would never see, into the life of a Boer War veteran who died in World War I expands to touch on many significant personalities and events in our nation’s history. Though this is Charles McKenzie Marten’s story, he doesn’t make an appearance until three-quarters of the way through the book. Discovering his history was a long and interesting process with all the makings of a detective drama. There are photos, letters, documents, maps, pages of reference and an index. As much detail as possible has been included in the charts and the text in order that readers who find a family name or a link with their own heritage can get in touch with the author to share information.
Book Synopsis Pierson v. Post, The Hunt for the Fox by : Angela Fernandez
Download or read book Pierson v. Post, The Hunt for the Fox written by Angela Fernandez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1805 New York foxhunting case Pierson v. Post has long been used in American property law classrooms to introduce law students to the concept of first possession by asking how one establishes possession of a wild animal. In this book, Angela Fernandez retells the history of the famous fox case, from its origins as a squabble between two wealthy young men on the South Fork of Long Island through its appeal to the New York Supreme Court and entry into legal treatises, law school casebooks, and law journal articles, where it still occupies a central place. Fernandez argues that the dissent is best understood as an example of legal solemn foolery. Yet it has been treated by legal professionals, the lawyers of its day, and subsequent legal academics in such a serious way, demonstrating how the solemn and the silly can occupy two sides of the same coin in American legal history.
Book Synopsis The Unexploited West by : Ernest J. Chambers
Download or read book The Unexploited West written by Ernest J. Chambers and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian journalist, author, and civil servant, Ernest J. Chambers compiled this volume in 1914, intending to present the factual information available at that time about the less-known and unexploited parts of northern Canada that lie on the west of Hudson Bay and James Bay and the East of the main range of Rocky Mountains. Contents include: Historical The Keewatin Area.—agriculture and Arable Land The Keewatin Area.—tree Growth and Timber Resources. The Keewatin Area.—economic Minerals. He Keewatin Area.—game, Fur-bearing Animals and Fish. Northern Saskatchewan.—agriculture and Arable Land. Northern Saskatchewan.—tree Growth and Timber Resources. Northern Saskatchewan.—economic Minerals. Northern Saskatchewan.—game, Fur-bearing Animals and Fish. Northern Alberta.—agriculture and Arable Land in the Eastern Section of "athabaska Country." Northern Alberta.—agriculture and Arable Land in the Western Section or "peace River Region." Northern Alberta.—tree Growth and Timber Resources. Northern Alberta.—economic Minerals. Northern Alberta.—game, Fur-bearing Animals and Fish. Mackenzie River Region.—topography, Agriculture and Arable Land. Mackenzie River Region.—tree Growth and Timber Resources. Mackenzie River Region.—economic Minerals. Mackenzie River Region.—game, Fur-bearing Animals and Fish. Barren Lands or "arctic Prairie."—topography, Soil, Climate and Flora. Barren Lands or "arctic Prairie."—tree Growth and Timber Resources. Barren Lands or "arctic Prairie."—economic Minerals. Barren Lands or "arctic Prairie."—game, Fur-bearing Animals and Fish.
Book Synopsis Harold Innis and the North by : William J. Buxton
Download or read book Harold Innis and the North written by William J. Buxton and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Innis is widely understood as the proponent of the "Laurentian school" of historiography, which mapped Canadian development along an East-West axis. Harold Innis and the North turns the axis North-South by examining Innis's intense and abiding interest in the North, and providing new perspectives on this seminal figure in Canadian political economy and communication studies. This collection reveals that Innis's advocacy of the North was closely bound up with his vision of northern Canada as the site of a second industrial revolution based on mining, hydro-electric power, pulp and paper, and enabled by new forms of transportation. Long preoccupied with Canada's coming of age as a balanced and integrated industrial nation-state, Innis grappled with the same issues about the North in the Canadian nation that we are dealing with today. Chapters explore the breadth of Innis's northern activities, including his early studies of the fur trade, his biography of eighteenth-century explorer and cartographer Peter Pond, his review essays on the North for the Canadian Historical Review, his leadership of the Rockefeller-sponsored Arctic Survey, and his trip to the Soviet Union. Harold Innis and the North crafts a new narrative about the nature and scope of Innis's intellectual project and provides a unique appreciation of his multi-faceted professional identity. Contributors include Sergei Arkhipov (North-Ossetian State University and NGO Vladikavkaz Institute of Economics) Jeffrey Brison (Queens), George Colpitts (Calgary), Matthew Evenden (UBC), Barry Gough (Churchill College, Cambridge and Kings College, London), Paul Heyer (Wilfrid Laurier), Jim Mochoruk (North Dakota), Liza Piper (Alberta), Shirley Roburn (Concordia), Peter van Wyck (Concordia), Jeff Webb (Memorial).
Book Synopsis Minnesota by : Theodore Christian Blegen
Download or read book Minnesota written by Theodore Christian Blegen and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed history is brought up to date through placement of the political, economic, social, and cultural developments since 1963 within the larger context of national and international events
Book Synopsis Disappointment River by : Brian Castner
Download or read book Disappointment River written by Brian Castner and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled 1200 miles on the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage that had eluded mariners for hundreds of years. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling journey -- and discovered the Passage he could not find. Disappointment River is a dual historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound alteration by the dual forces of globalization and climate change. Fourteen years before Lewis and Clark, Mackenzie set off to cross the continent of North America with a team of voyageurs and Chipewyan guides, to find a trade route to the riches of the East. What he found was a river that he named "Disappointment." Mackenzie died thinking he had failed. He was wrong. In this book, Brian Castner not only retells the story of Mackenzie's epic voyages in vivid prose, he personally retraces his travels, battling exhaustion, exposure, mosquitoes, white water rapids and the threat of bears. He transports readers to a world rarely glimpsed in the media, of tar sands, thawing permafrost, remote indigenous villages and, at the end, a wide open Arctic Ocean that could become a far-northern Mississippi of barges and pipelines and oil money.
Book Synopsis North Country by : Mary Lethert Wingerd
Download or read book North Country written by Mary Lethert Wingerd and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1862, four years after Minnesota was ratified as the thirty-second state in the Union, simmering tensions between indigenous Dakota and white settlers culminated in the violent, six-week-long U.S.–Dakota War. Hundreds of lives were lost on both sides, and the war ended with the execution of thirty-eight Dakotas on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota—the largest mass execution in American history. The following April, after suffering a long internment at Fort Snelling, the Dakota and Winnebago peoples were forcefully removed to South Dakota, precipitating the near destruction of the area’s native communities while simultaneously laying the foundation for what we know and recognize today as Minnesota. In North Country: The Making of Minnesota, Mary Lethert Wingerd unlocks the complex origins of the state—origins that have often been ignored in favor of legend and a far more benign narrative of immigration, settlement, and cultural exchange. Moving from the earliest years of contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the western Great Lakes region to the era of French and British influence during the fur trade and beyond, Wingerd charts how for two centuries prior to official statehood Native people and Europeans in the region maintained a hesitant, largely cobeneficial relationship. Founded on intermarriage, kinship, and trade between the two parties, this racially hybridized society was a meeting point for cultural and economic exchange until the western expansion of American capitalism and violation of treaties by the U.S. government during the 1850s wore sharply at this tremulous bond, ultimately leading to what Wingerd calls Minnesota’s Civil War. A cornerstone text in the chronicle of Minnesota’s history, Wingerd’s narrative is augmented by more than 170 illustrations chosen and described by Kirsten Delegard in comprehensive captions that depict the fascinating, often haunting representations of the region and its inhabitants over two and a half centuries. North Country is the unflinching account of how the land the Dakota named Mini Sota Makoce became the State of Minnesota and of the people who have called it, at one time or another, home.
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America by : Robin Inglis
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America written by Robin Inglis and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America tells of the heroic endeavors and remarkable achievements, the endless speculation about a northwest passage, and the fighting and manipulation for commercial advantage that surrounded this terrain. This is done through an introductory essay, a detailed chronology, an extensive bibliography, modern maps and selected historical maps and drawings, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries.
Book Synopsis The Ladies, the Gwich'in, and the Rat by : Clara Vyvyan
Download or read book The Ladies, the Gwich'in, and the Rat written by Clara Vyvyan and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1926, two British women came from Cornwall to Edmonton and travelled through northern Alberta, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon by rail, sternwheeler, and canoe. For the women, it was a liberating experience, yet Vyvyan's narrative, supported by MacLaren and LaFramboise's insightful editorial work, reveals the imperialist attitudes underlying their travels.
Book Synopsis Collections by : Massachusetts Historical Society
Download or read book Collections written by Massachusetts Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the statement above quoted, also for full bibliographical information regarding this publication, and for the contents of the volumes [1st ser.] v. 1- 7th series, v. 5, cf. Griffin, Bibl. of Amer. hist. society. 2d edition, 1907, p. 346-360.
Book Synopsis Peter Pond - Fur Trader and Adventurer by : Harold A. Innis
Download or read book Peter Pond - Fur Trader and Adventurer written by Harold A. Innis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents an incredible biography of Peter Pond, a Canadian explorer who was one of the first Europeans to enter the Canadian interior. Pond was a soldier with a Connecticut Regiment during the French and Indian War. Moreover, he was a fur trader, a founding member of the North West Company and the Beaver Club, and a cartographer. The writer skillfully covered all the significant events of Pond's life, giving the readers an authentic source to learn about the daring explorer.
