Alberta History articles

Recent articles from Alberta History

Hands and fists across the border: Canadian and American cattlemen in the twentieth century.
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The American and Canadian cattle industries are very similar and through time they have developed close personal, commercial, and cultural bonds. They have fought common battles against animal disease; have integrated their breeding regimes: developed similar...

The state of the Edmonton District in 1815.
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Editor's Introduction In 1815, James Bird, the Chief Factor at Edmonton House, prepared a report on the conditions existing in his extensive district. Based upon the Indians who traded there, he estimated it extended from the Athabasca River in the north, to...

Thomas Wellington Chalmers: mountie, surveyor, soldier.
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Early in the last century, feminist and author Emily Murphy was dining with Edmonton's Mayor, William A. Griesbach, when the conversation turned to his experiences in the Boer War and to the exploits of an ex-Mountie with whom he'd served. Suddenly she realized...

Big Hill and the Blackfoot.
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The part of eastern Alberta where I was raised is one of our province's more scenic areas. The "Big Hill" rises immediately to the north of my home near Islay, and to the south the lovely range of the Four Blackfoot Hills stretches for many miles from east to west,...

The Alberta Supreme Court at 100: History & Authority.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... edited by Jonathan Swainger. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 366 pp., illus., hard cover, dust jacket, $45.00. In spite of its pedestrian title, this is really quite a good book. Nine writers provide essays on such topics as Hutterites, water rights, marriage, and Indians. It...