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Book Fort George Buckingham House

Download or read book Fort George Buckingham House written by Douglas R. Babcock and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Opponents and Neighbours

Download or read book Opponents and Neighbours written by Douglas R. Babcock and published by . This book was released on 198? with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fort George Buckingham House Site Plantation  1792 1800

Download or read book The Fort George Buckingham House Site Plantation 1792 1800 written by Lynda Gullason and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's thesis. An archaeological investigation of the Fort George-Buckingham House fur trade posts in east-central Alberta was undertaken in order to assess the impact of European culture on the visiting Cree and Blackfoot Indians who used the plantation or camp site between the two posts from 1792-1800, particularly on the Native women who often married European traders.

Book The Beaver Hills Country

Download or read book The Beaver Hills Country written by Graham MacDonald and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a relatively small, but interesting and anomalous, region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers. Ecological themes, such as climatic cycles, ground water availability, vegetation succession and the response of wildlife, and the impact of fires, shape the possibilities and provide the challenges to those who have called the region home or used its varied resources: Indians, Metis, and European immigrants.

Book The Fur Trade Revisited

Download or read book The Fur Trade Revisited written by Jo-Anne Fisk and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fur Trade Revisited is a collection of twenty-eight essays selected from the more than fifty presentations made at the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference held on Mackinac Island, Michigan, in the fall of 1991. Essays contained in this important new interpretive work focus on the history, archaeology, and literature of a fascinating, growing area of scholarly investigation. Underscoring the work's multifaceted approach is an introductory essay by Lily McAuley titled "Memories of a Trapper's Daughter." This vivid and compelling account of the fur-trade life sets a level of quality for what follows. Part one of The Fur Trade Revisited discusses eighteenth-century fur trade intersections with European markets. The essays in part two examine Native people and the strategies they employed to meet demands placed on them by the market for furs. Part three examines the origins, motives, and careers of those who actually participated in the fur trade. Part four focuses attention on the indigenous fur-trade culture and subsequent archaeology in the area around Mackinac Island, Michigan, while part five contains studies focusing on the fur-trade culture in other parts of North America. Part six assesses the fur trade after 1870 and part seven contains evaluations of the critical historical and literary interpretations prevalent in fur-trade scholarship.

Book Opponents and Neighbours

Download or read book Opponents and Neighbours written by Douglas R. Babcock and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a narrative history of Fort George and Buckingham House provincial Historic Site. Between 1792 and 1800, the North West Company’s Fort George and the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Buckingham House operated on the North Saskatchewan River , attracting trade from the parklands in which they were located, the grasslands to the south, and the woodlands to the north. Indigenous nations interacted with a varied group of traders. The trade was conducted with respect and offered reciprocal benefits to all parties as befits transactions between friends, allies and eventually kinship groups. The posts were more than venues of commerce; they were a common meeting ground for people of diverse cultures. There were numerous country marriages “a la facon du pays” between company men and Indigenous women. Many children were conceived, born and raised into adulthood by stable, supportive and nurturing families. Children , whose mothers were of this continent and whose fathers traveled half the world would themselves have offspring whose descendants inhabit the land till the present time. The manuscript describes a foundational period of social and economic interaction in Alberta’s early fur trade history."--

Book Cold Lake Fort George Buckingham House

Download or read book Cold Lake Fort George Buckingham House written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Notes on the History of Fort George During the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods

Download or read book Notes on the History of Fort George During the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods written by Benjamin Franklin DeCosta and published by New York ; London : J. Sabin & Sons. This book was released on 1871 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ojibwa of Western Canada 1780 1870

Download or read book The Ojibwa of Western Canada 1780 1870 written by Laura Peers and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most dynamic Aboriginal peoples in western Canada today are the Ojibwa, who have played an especially vital role in the development of an Aboriginal political voice at both levels of government. Yet, they are relative newcomers to the region, occupying the parkland and prairies only since the end of the 18th century. This work traces the origins of the western Ojibwa, their adaptations to the West, and the ways in which they have coped with the many challenges they faced in the first century of their history in that region, between 1780 and 1870. The western Ojibwa are descendants of Ojibwa who migrated from around the Great Lakes in the late 18th century. This was an era of dramatic change. Between 1780 and 1870, they survived waves of epidemic disease, the rise and decline of the fur trade, the depletion of game, the founding of non-Native settlement, the loss of tribal lands, and the government's assertion of political control over them. As a people who emerged, adapted, and survived in a climate of change, the western Ojibwa demonstrate both the effects of historic forces that acted upon Native peoples, and the spirit, determination, and adaptive strategies that the Native people have used to cope with those forces. This study examines the emergence of the western Ojibwa within this context, seeing both the cultural changes that they chose to make and the continuity within their culture as responses to historical pressures. The Ojibwa of Western Canada differs from earlier works by focussing closely on the details of western Ojibwa history in the crucial century of their emergence. It is based on documents to which pioneering scholars did not have access, including fur traders' and missionaries' journals, letters, and reminiscences. Ethnographic and archaeological data, and the evidence of material culture and photographic and art images, are also examined in this well-researched and clearly written history.

Book Fort de Prairies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brock Silversides
  • Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781894384988
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Fort de Prairies written by Brock Silversides and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2005 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fort Edmonton was a prairie institution and icon from 1795 to 1915. It was both a physical edifice and a community, not to mention a touchstone of western Canadian commercial history. Its story is rich in drama and colour: Métis fiddlers at midnight, dwarves firing cannons, duelling clergy, never-ending public drumming, secret agents, the raising of the skull-and-crossbones flag, bears quaffing cold drinks - at times it seemed like a circus had taken up residence there. It is also a chronicle of intimidation and murder, battles between whites and First Nations, epidemics and famines, destruction by fire, whiskey traders, horse stealing, mutinies, rebellion and, finally, government neglect and stealthy demolition."--pub. website.

Book David Thompson

Download or read book David Thompson written by Elle Andra-Warner and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveyor, cartographer, fur trader, adventurer, naturalist and entrepreneur, David Thompson is now recognized as one of the greatest explorers and geographers of all time. By 1812, he had surveyed almost four million square kilometres of the North American wilderness and become the first European to navigate the entire length of the Columbia River. This compelling biography draws from Thompson’s detailed accounts of his gruelling voyages and follows him from his apprenticeship with the Hudson’s Bay Company through his extraordinary accomplishments in the service of the North West Company to his later years struggling to claim his legacy.

Book A TOURIST GUIDE TO HISTORIC TRADING POSTS AND FORTS OF ALBERTA

Download or read book A TOURIST GUIDE TO HISTORIC TRADING POSTS AND FORTS OF ALBERTA written by Joachim Fromhold and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alberta History  West Central Alberta  13 000 Years of Indian History   Pt  2  1750 1840

Download or read book Alberta History West Central Alberta 13 000 Years of Indian History Pt 2 1750 1840 written by Joachim Fromhold and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series on the history of the Western Cree from the earliest pre-historic times to the post-reservation era.

Book Common and Contested Ground

Download or read book Common and Contested Ground written by Theodore Binnema and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Common and Contested Ground, Theodore Binnema provides a sweeping and innovative interpretation of the history of the northwestern plains and its peoples from prehistoric times to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The real history of the northwestern plains between a.d. 200 and 1806 was far more complex, nuanced, and paradoxical than often imagined. Drawn by vast herds of buffalo and abundant resources, Native peoples, fur traders, and settlers moved across the region establishing intricate patterns of trade, diplomacy, and warfare. In the process, the northwestern plains became a common and contested ground. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Binnema examines the impact of technology on the peoples of the plains, beginning with the bow and arrow and continuing through the arrival of the horse, European weapons, Old World diseases, and Euroamerican traders. His focus on the environment and its effect on patterns of behaviour and settlement brings a unique perspective to the history of the region.

Book Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park

Download or read book Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park written by I.S. MacLaren and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adults need playgrounds. In 1907, the Canadian government designated a vast section of the Rocky Mountains as Jasper Forest Park. Tourists now play where Native peoples once lived, fur traders toiled, and Métis families homesteaded. In Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park, I.S. MacLaren and eight other writers unearth the largely unrecorded past of the upper Athabasca River watershed, and bring to light two centuries' worth of human history, tracing the evolution of trading routes into the Rockies' largest park. Serious history enthusiasts and those with an interest in Canada's national parks will find a sense of connection in this long overdue study of Jasper.