Alberta History articles from January 2006

Alberta History archives from January 2006

Tom Wilson of the Canadian Rockies.
January 1, 2006... Although Tom Wilson's name is virtually unknown today, even to Canadians, it is preserved in the name Mount Wilson, east of the Columbia Icefield, and in a bronze plaque, erected on a rock near the great Takakkaw Falls in the Yoho Valley. It...

Was there a tenth victim at Frog Lake?(Cover Story)
January 1, 2006... Editor's Note: Conventional history states that nine persons were killed in the Frog Lake massacre of 1885. As evidence, historians point to declarations made by survivors, trial evidence, and other documents that describe those killed as...

Letters home from an Alberta Surveyor.
January 1, 2006... Note: The following letters were written by 21-year-old Robert Murray "Bertie" Gourlay while on a survey crew near Jasper in 1908. Gourlay was born in St. Andrews, Scotland, and emigrated to Canada in 1906 to join his parents who had already...

Remembering Chinook Country: Told and Untold Stories of Our Past.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Remembering Chinook Country: Told and Untold Stories of Our Past Calgary: Deselig Enterprises Ltd., 360 pp., illus., paper, $32.95. Some of the best writers in the Calgary area have combined their talents to produce this book to mark...

The Battle of Alberta: A Century of Hockey's Greatest Rivalry.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Battle of Alberta: A Century of Hockey's Greatest Rivalry by Steven Sandor. Surrey, BC: Heritage House Publishing Co. Ltd., 210 pp., illus., paper, $19.95. Here is a book for every hockey-loving fan in Alberta. The sports rivalry...

Laying Down the Lines: A History of Land Surveying in Alberta.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Laying Down the Lines: A History of Land Surveying in Alberta by Judy Larmour. Calgary: Brindle and Glass Publishing, 325 pp., illus., paper, $34.95. Commissioned by the Alberta Land Surveyors Association, this volume deals with the...

Calgary's Grand Story.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Calgary's Grand Story by Donald B. Smith. Calgary: University of Calgary, 340 pp., illus., paper, $39.95. One of the great men of business and politics in western Canadian history was Sir James Lougheed of Calgary. A stalwart...

Waterton and Glacier in a Snap!(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Waterton and Glacier in a Snap! by Ray Djuff and Chris Morrison. Surrey, B.C.: Rocky Mountain Books, 240 pp., illus., paper, $19.95. The book's subtitle, "Fast Facts & Titillating Trivia," is a perfect description of this captivating...

Aksel Sandemose and Canada: A Scandinavian Writer's Perception of the Canadian Prairies in the 1920s.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Aksel Sandemose and Canada: A Scandinavian Writer's Perception of the Canadian Prairies in the 1920s translated and edited by Christopher S. Hale. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 183 pp., illus., paper, $24.95. This is not the...

Fort de Prairies: The Story of Fort Edmonton.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Fort de Prairies: The Story of Fort Edmonton by Brock Silversides. Surrey, BC: Heritage House Publishing Co. Ltd., 170 pp., profusely illustrated, colour, paper, $26.95. While the text is substantial and well written, the images are the...

The First Dutch Settlement in Alberta: Letters from the Pioneer Years, 1903-14.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The First Dutch Settlement in Alberta: Letters from the Pioneer Years, 1903-14 edited by Donald Sinnema. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 400 pp., illus., maps, paper, $34.95. This fine new book by Donald Sinnema provides a...

Edmonton's Urban Villages: The Community League Movement.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Edmonton's Urban Villages: The Community League Movement by Ron Kuban. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 272 pp., illus., paper, $24.95. As the author points out, the existence of Edmonton's community leagues has played a major...

The Albertans: 100 People Who Changed the Province.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Albertans: 100 People Who Changed the Province edited by Sandra Bit. Edmonton: Lone Pine Publishing, 240 pp., illus., paper, $18.95. If you have a favourite Albertan, that person is probably included here. The list starts with...

Edward Frederick Hagell: The Legacy of a Southern Alberta Artist.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Edward Frederick Hagell: The Legacy of a Southern Alberta Artist, by Wilma Wood. Calgary: Detselig Enterprises Ltd., 64 pp., ilus., colour, $27.95. Hagell's career as a businessman was mostly a failure, but in his art he was prolific from the...

Canadian History for Dummies.(Book review)(Brief review)
January 1, 2006... Canadian History for Dummies, by Will Ferguson. Mississauga, ON: John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd., 502 pp., paper, $29.99. This is the second edition of Alberta author Ferguson's comprehensive and popular quick study of Canadian history. He...

The Maple Crown in Alberta: The Office of Lieutenant-Governor.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Maple Crown in Alberta: The Office of Lieutenant-Governor, by Kenneth Munro. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, 274 pp., illus., paper, $35.45. The role and nature of the Lieutenant-Governor is explained in this reference volume. It tells...

Canada 2005: Our People Our Events Our Perspective.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Canada 2005: Our People Our Events Our Perspective, edited by Patti Tasko. Mississauga, ON: John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd., 184 pp., profusely illustrated, colour, bound, $36.99. This is a superb coffee table book showing the events of 2005 as...

Managing Changing Prairie Landscapes.(Book review)(Brief review)
January 1, 2006... Managing Changing Prairie Landscapes, edited by Todd A. Radenbaugh and Glenn Sutter. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 169 pp., illus., paper, $29.95. A total of twenty-two geographers, agriculturists, biologists, environmentalists, and...

Once Upon a Time in the West: The Making of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association, 1963-2004.(Book review)(Brief review)
January 1, 2006... Once Upon a Time in the West: The Making of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association, 1963-2004, by Bela Szabados. Kelowna: Academic Printing and Publishing, 163 pp., illus., paper, $18.95. This books tells of the formation of the group...