Alberta History articles from January 2004

Alberta History archives from January 2004

The reins in their hands: ranchwomen and the Horse in Southern Alberta 1880-1914.
January 1, 2004... Prior to the departure of newlywed Monica Hughes from England in 1909, to live on a ranch in southern Alberta, her mother had taken care to ensure her daughter acquired what she believed would be necessary and important skills for a wife in the...

Sir James Lake, Baronet: The Firs, Edmonton.(Edmonton, England)
January 1, 2004... In 1795, Fort Edmonton, on the North Saskatchewan River, was named after Edmonton, Middlesex, where Sir James Lake, Deputy Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, owned an estate. (1) The history of Edmonton--from Saxon times when it was a...

The Non-Partisan League in Alberta and North Dakota: a comparison.(Cover Story)
January 1, 2004... "Well where is this thing going to lead us and what is the future of it? It is going to lead just where you desire it, and the future of it is going to be just what you make it, because it iv a democratic movement." --Louise McKinney,...

Excursion to Edmonton in 1891.
January 1, 2004... Early in August 1891 a group of businessmen and others made a special train trip to Edmonton on the newly-opened line to look at the country and determine the business prospects in the northern town. The railway had been built as far as Red...

Archbishop A.-A. Tache of St. Boniface: the "Good Fight" and the Illusive Vision.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... by Raymond Huel. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 456 pp., illus., paper, $39.95. In any consideration of the great men of western Canada in the 19th century, Archbishop Tache must stand high on the list. A strong promoter of French...

The Vengeful Wife and Other Blackfoot Stories.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... by Hugh A. Dempsey. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 304 pp., illus., hard cover, dust jacket, $34.95 U.S. Hugh Dempsey, editor of Alberta History, presents tales of the Blackfoot nation on the plains of southern Alberta and northern...

Faith, Life and Witness in the Northwest, 1903-2003: Centennial History of the Northwest Mennonite Conference.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... by T.D. Regehr. Kingston, ON: Pandora Press, 524 pp., illus., paper, $49.95. In 1903, a meeting was held north of High River to form the Alberta District Mennonite Conference. This brought together congregations from Carstairs, Mayton, and...

Inspector F.J. Dickens of the North-West Mounted Police, 1844-1886.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... by David J. Carter. Elkwater, AB: Eagle Butte Press, 247 pp., illus., paper, $24.95. This book deals with the life of Charles Dickens's youngest son who had a checkered career in the Mounted Police. It is an odd mixture of fiction and...

Alberta's Camelot: Culture & the Arts in the Lougheed Years.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... by Fil Fraser. Edmonton: Lone Pine Publishing, 240 pp., illus., paper, $21.95. In these personal memoirs, Fraser emphasizes the important roles of such people as Peter and Jeanne Lougheed, Horst Schmidt, Joe Schoctor, and Mel Hurtig in the...

Pardon Me, Miss.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
January 1, 2004... by Marjory Brown Azarowicz. Privately printed, 97 pp., paper, available from the author, 4406 Middle Ridge Drive, Fairfax, VA, 22033, $10.00 U.S. Subtitled, "Memories of teaching in a one-room school in the badlands of Alberta during World War...

The Swift Fox: Ecology and Conservation of Swift Foxes in a Changing World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... edited by Marsha A. Sovada and Ludwig Carbyn. 258 pp., illus., paper, oversize, $39.95. The swift fox is a native species that was virtually wiped out during Alberta's settlement period. This book contains two dozen articles looking at the shy...

Farm Communities at the Crossroads: Challenges and Resistance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... edited by Harry P. Diaz, Joann Jaffe & Robert Stirling. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 353 pp., paper, $44.95. Several authors discuss the family farm, globalization, the farming crisis, and other agricultural matters. A very...

The Trajectories of Rural Life: New Perspectives on Rural Canada.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
January 1, 2004... edited by Raymond Blake and Andrew Nurse. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 167pp., paper, $29.95. Fourteen essays consider such matters as farm women, leisure time, and transitions in rural Saskatchewan.

The Doctor Rode Side-Saddle.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
January 1, 2004... by Ruth Matheson Buck. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 166 pp., illus., paper, $24.95. This is a reprint of a 1974 volume dealing with the experience of the medical wife of missionary John Matheson.

"Mr. Banff" the Story of Norman Luxton.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... by Susan Warrender. Calgary: Alister Bear Enterprises, 256 pp., illus., paper, $19.95. Luxton's career follows him from his voyage across the Pacific in a war canoe, to his settlement in Banff', where he became a newspaper owner, Indian trader,...

Donations.(Historical Society of Alberta)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Historical Society of Alberta September 11 to December 10, 2003 Voyageur ($100 to $499, benefits 1.4) Robert Wray, John Galloway, and Barry Snowden. Explorer ($25 to $99, benefits 14) Betty Runyon, Don Hepburn (3), Geoff &...