Originally published as Felix Paul Greves Karriere: Frederick Philip Grove in Deutschland, this volume reveals the previously unknown life of Canadian author F.P. Grove. An illuminating biography of a significant Canadian author.
Including photographs from private collections, historic maps, and a timeline of Edmonton's history, this official publication of the City of Edmonton's Centennial presents the personal stories of eyewitnesses and descendants explaining, arguing, crying, scolding, laughing and interrupting one another in a city's evolving conversation with itself.
Is Canada truly postcolonial? Burdened by a past that remains refracted in its understanding and treatment of Native peoples, this collection reinterprets treaty making and land claims from Aboriginal perspectives.
Forms a part of the field of collaborative poetry in North American literature.
A housewife fantasizes about the local grocery store manager; a daughter catches glimpses of herself in the face of her mother's suffocating attentions; and a minor astronomer accumulates star charts and wasted nights rather than the attentions of his wife. This book explores the fixations of human relationships.
An account of Raymond Patterson, a Londoner who finds his destiny in the Nahanni and Flat Rivers region of the Northwest Territories, this work reveals to us an extraordinary life. It is suitable for outdoor enthusiasts, historians, and lovers of travel.
Adults need playgrounds. In 1907, the Canadian government designated a vast section of the Rocky Mountains as Jasper Forest Park. This work reveals the history of the upper Athabasca River watershed, and looks at two centuries worth of human history, tracing the evolution of trading routes into the Rockies' largest park.
Lois Hole - master gardener, school trustee, university chancellor, lieutenant-governor, and generous spirit - lived her life with passion and conviction. Never afraid to say what needed to be said, she has bequeathed to every one of us a legacy of caring. This volume presents Lois' speeches.
Provides a detailed description of marriage as a diverse social institution in 19th century Western Canada, and the subsequent ascendancy of Christian, lifelong, heterosexual, monogamous marriage as an instrument to implement dominant British-Canadian values. This work concludes with an explanation of the negative social consequences for women.
Offers an account of a Cree/Saulteaux woman's twenty-year career as a public school teacher beginning in 1960s Regina, when discrimination and other abuses often went unchallenged, and the education system was starving for visionary reform.
The Prairie West presents thirty-five articles on key topics in the history of prairie Canada. The second edition, which includes new topics and readings, continues to meet the needs of students by contributing to tutorial discussions and complementing course lectures.