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Book Founding Families of Beckwith Township 1816 1846

Download or read book Founding Families of Beckwith Township 1816 1846 written by Carol Bennett McCuaig and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Atlantic Salmon in the History of North America

Download or read book The Atlantic Salmon in the History of North America written by R. W. Dunfield and published by Fisheries and Oceans, Scientific Information and Publications Branch. This book was released on 1985 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) has occupied a salient position in the history of eastern North America for at least the past 1000 years. Initially the species occupied a prominant niche in the prolific web of life that existed throughout its former occurrence area; millions of pounds of salmon were produced annually from the freshwater streams between New York and Ungava - a resource that was a principal food source for the Amerindian cultures which shared its range. In a chronological and cumulative way, the salmon became an increasingly important factor in both the domestic and commercial life of the developing colonies; it provided a recreational outlet for the sportsman, and evolved as a principal object of intellectual and scientific investigation. The documented specifics of the salmon's history, however, are largely comprised of repetitive instances of overexploitation, careless destruction of stocks and their environment, and ineffectual conservation actions. Despite the species' former importance, its more recent history is one of declining presence, and its destiny appears to be extinction. By documenting this story of discovery, exploitation, and decline, the urgent need for the employment of sound resource management practices to preserve the salmon is emphasized. Appendix A: Historical methods of packing salmon.

Book Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies II

Download or read book Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies II written by Natasha Fijn and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "volume arises out of a conference in Canberra on Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies at the National Museum of Australia on 9–10 November 2009, which attracted more than thirty presenters."

Book Science Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia

Download or read book Science Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia written by Paul Turnbull and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on over twenty years’ investigation of scientific archives in Europe, Australia, and other former British settler colonies. It explains how and why skulls and other bodily structures of Indigenous Australians became the focus of scientific curiosity about the nature and origins of human diversity from the early years of colonisation in the late eighteenth century to Australia achieving nationhood at the turn of the twentieth century. The last thirty years have seen the world's indigenous peoples seek the return of their ancestors' bodily remains from museums and medical schools throughout the western world. Turnbull reveals how the remains of the continent's first inhabitants were collected during the long nineteenth century by the plundering of their traditional burial places. He also explores the question of whether museums also acquired the bones of men and women who were killed in Australian frontier regions by military, armed police and settlers.

Book Invisible Women

Download or read book Invisible Women written by Carol Bennett McCuaig and published by . This book was released on with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Women have played a major role in the settlement and history of Eastern Ontario, yet until recently they have been virtually invisible. In local histories women are often conspicuous by their absence yet they were the backbone of our society. The book contains chapters on, the journey to the area in the early days of settlement, life in the home, women's work, marriage and widowhood, health and mortality, education, religion, recreation, suffrage and more."--Back cover.

Book Indigenous and Minority Placenames

Download or read book Indigenous and Minority Placenames written by Luise Hercus and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases current research into Indigenous and minority placenames in Australia and internationally. Many of the chapters in this volume originated as papers at a Trends in Toponymy conference hosted by the University of Ballarat in 2007 that featured Australian and international speakers. The chapters in this volume provide insight into the quality of toponymic research that is being undertaken in Australia and in countries such as Canada, Finland, South Africa, New Zealand, and Norway. The research presented here draws on the disciplines of linguistics, geography, history, and anthropology. The book includes meticulous studies of placenames in central NSW and the Upper Hunter region; Gundungurra cave names; western Arnhem Land; Northern Cape York Peninsula and Mount Wheeler in Queensland; saltwater placenames around Mer in the Torres Strait; and the Kaurna in South Australia.

Book The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada Canada West

Download or read book The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada Canada West written by Dan Walker and published by Norsim Research and Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upper Canada became "Canada West" in 1841 and then "Ontario" in 1867.

Book The Lives of Stories

    The Lives of Stories

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  • Author : Emma Dortins
  • Publisher : ANU Press
  • Release : 2018-12-05
  • ISBN : 1760462411
  • Pages : 275 pages

Download or read book The Lives of Stories written by Emma Dortins and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lives of Stories traces three stories of Aboriginal–settler friendships that intersect with the ways in which Australians remember founding national stories, build narratives for cultural revival, and work on reconciliation and self-determination. These three stories, which are still being told with creativity and commitment by storytellers today, are the story of James Morrill’s adoption by Birri-Gubba people and re-adoption 17 years later into the new colony of Queensland, the story of Bennelong and his relationship with Governor Phillip and the Sydney colonists, and the story of friendship between Wiradjuri leader Windradyne and the Suttor family. Each is an intimate story about people involved in relationships of goodwill, care, adoptive kinship and mutual learning across cultures, and the strains of maintaining or relinquishing these bonds as they took part in the larger events that signified the colonisation of Aboriginal lands by the British. Each is a story in which cross-cultural understanding and misunderstanding are deeply embedded, and in which the act of storytelling itself has always been an engagement in cross-cultural relations. The Lives of Stories reflects on the nature of story as part of our cultural inheritance, and seeks to engage the reader in becoming more conscious of our own effect as history-makers as we retell old stories with new meanings in the present, and pass them on to new generations.

Book Marriage Notices of Ontario

Download or read book Marriage Notices of Ontario written by William D. Reid and published by Lambertville, N.J. : Hunterdon House. This book was released on 1980 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: