Saskatchewan History

Author : Merle Massie
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887554547
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forest Prairie Edge written by Merle Massie and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2014-04-26 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saskatchewan is the anchor and epitome of the ‘prairie’ provinces, even though half of the province is covered by boreal forest. The Canadian penchant for dividing this vast country into easily-understood ‘regions’ has reduced the Saskatchewan identity to its southern prairie denominator and has distorted cultural and historical interpretations to favor the prairie south. Forest Prairie Edge is a deep-time investigation of the edge land, or ecotone, between the open prairies and boreal forest region of Saskatchewan. Ecotones are transitions from one landscape to another, where social, economic, and cultural practices of different landscapes are blended. Using place history and edge theory, Massie considers the role and importance of the edge ecotone in building a diverse social and economic past that contradicts traditional “prairie” narratives around settlement, economic development, and culture. She offers a refreshing new perspective that overturns long-held assumptions of the prairies and the Canadian west.

Author : Curtis R. McManus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781552385241
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Happyland written by Curtis R. McManus and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Happyland, Curtis McManus contends that the "Dirty Thirties," actually began much earlier and were connected only peripherally to the Depression itself.

Author : W. A. Waiser
Publisher : Calgary : Fifth House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saskatchewan written by W. A. Waiser and published by Calgary : Fifth House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Saskatchewan: A New History, award-winning author and historian Bill Waiser presents a fresh, entertaining account and interpretation of Saskatchewan's unique and captivating history. Writing with clarity, candor, and compassion, Waiser describes in detail his province and its people through the stimulating, often tumultuous years since joining Confederation in 1905. A gift to the province from the University of Saskatchewan, written in commemoration of the province's centennial celebrations in 2005, Saskatchewan: A New History tells, above all, the engaging stories of the people of Saskatchewan. Their wisdom, foresight, bravery, toil, and eternal optimism gave birth to one hundred years of extraordinary history. Waiser leaves no stone unturned as he records the events and stories of the people who experienced them: from the province's earliest days, when anything seemed possible; through the years of the Great Depression, when the prospect of greatness seemed all but lost; to the second half of the century, when an intense, at times bitter, debate raged over how best to govern Saskatchewan. Relying on the most up-to-date historical research available, he offers new perspectives on traditional views and tackles previously neglected, often difficult, concepts and events. "What is most striking about these images, aside from the richness of their color and the skillful use of light, are the happy, smiling faces. He could see things like no one else with a camera. He had an uncanny skill to set the scene. He caught people in everyday life and everyday activities and people wanted to have their picture taken by him." Generously illustrated with carefully selected archival images and two sixteen-page color inserts of commissioned photographs by Saskatoon's John Perret, Saskatchewan: A New History also pays a stunning visual tribute to the historical, urban, and natural splendour of Saskatchewan and its people. Includes: two 16-page color photo inserts by John Perret, 205 Black and White photographs and illustrations, 20 reference tables, 15 maps . . . and more. Saskatchewan Book Award for Non-Fiction nominee, 2005 Saskatchewan Book Award for Scholarly Writing nominee, 2005

Author : University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center
Publisher : University of Regina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780889771901
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Education in Saskatchewan written by University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Carpenter
Publisher : Coteau Books
ISBN 13 : 1550509551
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Literary History of Saskatchewan written by David Carpenter and published by Coteau Books. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 3 shifts its focus to Regina’s literary culture and to the coming generation of younger writers, but it continues to examine the best work from Saskatchewan. The impact, the relevance, the illuminations of our best writers’ work tend to move well beyond the borders of our province. This work transcends the regional sources of its inspiration. Just as Marilynne Robinson has much to say to Canadians about the disruptions and the graces of family life, Dianne Warren has much to say to Americans about the omnipresence of the past, the shadows it casts on people’s lives in the present. Many of our best books are nurtured by the history and the life of this province, but they spring into literature roughly in proportion to their applications and their immemorial responses to the human condition.

Author : David Carpenter
Publisher : Coteau Books
ISBN 13 : 1550507192
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Literary History of Saskatchewan: Volume 1 written by David Carpenter and published by Coteau Books. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saskatchewan’s literary history is both colourful and complex. It is also mature enough to deserve a critical investigation of its roots and origins, its salient features and its prominent players. This collection of scholarly essays, conceptualized and compiled by well-known Saskatchewan novelist, essayist and scholar David Carpenter, examines the Saskatchewan literary scene, from its early Aboriginal storytellers on through to the decades to the burgeoning 1970s. The dozen essays, preceded by a David Carpenter introduction, include such topics as “Our New Storytellers: Cree Literature in Saskatchewan”; “The Literary Construction of Saskatchewan before 1905: Narratives of Trade, Rebellion and Settlement” and “The New Generation: The Seventies Remembered.” Also included are special topics, among them – “Playwriting in Saskatchewan”; “Feral Muse, Angelic Muse – The Poetry of Anne Szumigalski”, and tribute pieces to John V. Hicks, R.D. Symons, Terrence Heath and Alex Karras. Contributing scholars include the likes of: Kristina Fagan, Jenny Kerber, Susan Gingell, Ken Mitchell and Martin Winquist.

Author : Norman Fergus Black
Publisher : Regina : North West Historical Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Saskatchewan and the Old North West written by Norman Fergus Black and published by Regina : North West Historical Company. This book was released on 1913 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Hall Archer
Publisher : Saskatoon : Western Producer Prairie Books
ISBN 13 : 9780888330642
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saskatchewan, a History written by John Hall Archer and published by Saskatoon : Western Producer Prairie Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Saskatchewan from prehistory to the late 1970s.

Author : Donald Bruce Ward
Publisher : Saskatoon : Fifth House
ISBN 13 : 9781895618563
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The People written by Donald Bruce Ward and published by Saskatoon : Fifth House. This book was released on 1995 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains information of the following indian tribes: Assinboine, Beaver (Tsattine, Blood (Kainah), Chipewayan, Crow Shonshonie (band of formed by intermarriages),Dakota, ros Ventre, Iroquois, Kootenay (Kutenai), Piean, Plain Cree, Sarcee (Sarsi), Saulteaux (Ojibwa), Sekani, Siksikah, Slavey, Stoney (Assinboine) and Woodland Cree.

Author : James M. Pitsula
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774824913
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keeping Canada British written by James M. Pitsula and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ku Klux Klan had its origins in the American South. It was suppressed but rose again in the 1920s, spreading into Canada, especially Saskatchewan. This book offers a new interpretation for the appeal of the Klan in 1920s Saskatchewan. It argues that the Klan should not be portrayed merely as an irrational outburst of intolerance but as a populist aftershock of the Great War – and a slightly more extreme version of mainstream opinion that wanted to keep Canada British. Through its meticulous exploration of a controversial issue central to the history of Saskatchewan and the formation of national identity, this book shines light upon a dark corner of Canada’s past.