Alberta History articles from June 2003

Alberta History archives from June 2003

Mapping the Alberta Route of the 1887 Mormon Trek from Utah to Cardston.(migration route from Logan, Utah to Cardston, Alberta)
June 22, 2003... The exact route travelled in 1887 by the first Mormon (2) pioneers from Logan, Utah, to Cardston, Alberta, has remained relatively unknown. However, through an application of modern satellite mapping technology, (3) combined with a correlated...

Red Deer Indian school.(reprint from Calgary Herald, September 16, 1893)
June 22, 2003... I paid a visit to the new Indian industrial school for Indian children just built [at Red Deer] by the Dominion government and now in operation by the Methodist church. The school itself is in charge of the Rev. John Nelson, who has for some...

A tribute to my grandad, Hiram Staples.(1890's Albertan settler from New Brunswick )
June 22, 2003... This is the story of a modest man who was obliged to migrate from the Maritimes to the West in the early 1890s. He had a wife, Alice, and three children but he did not have a job, nor any prospect of getting one. He was a casualty in an era...

Fort Edmonton.(Canadian Club resolves to help preserve old Hudson's Bay Company fort)(Brief Article)(Reprint)
June 22, 2003... The preservation of the old Hudson's Bay fort at Edmonton, and the marking of all historical spots in the province is the subject of a resolution that was introduced at the Canadian Club luncheon at the King Edward this afternoon. Over 100...

What constitutes child neglect? The tragic story of the Boutique Children's Hotel, 1971.
June 22, 2003... About 6:30 a.m. on Monday 22 November 1971, Margaret Leeferink pulled her station wagon up in front of the residence of Miss P. in Calgary. She knocked on the door and collected the first of 13 young children she would pick up that morning,...

Children on the streets, 1912.(Reprint)
June 22, 2003... I wonder what the Calgary parents are going to do to keep the children off the streets during the summer holidays--the long two months when there is no school? It is the mothers who are particularly facing the problems, the mothers of large...

Prairie Prisoners: POWs in Lethbridge During Two World Conflicts.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Georgia Green Fooks. Lethbridge: Lethbridge Historical Society, Box 974, T1J 4A2. 134 pages, illus., paper, $19.95. Lethbridge has had a close association with detention camps and prisoner of war camps dating back to the Great War of...

Eye on the Future: Business People in Calgary and the Bow Valley, 1870-1900.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Hugh A. Dempsey. Calgary: Fifth House Limited, 248 pp., illus., paper, $24.95. This book examines the tragic period from 1869 to 1874 when American traders flooded the southern Alberta plains with whiskey, causing massive chaos and...

Eye on the Future: Business People in Calgary and the Bow Valley, 1870-1900.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Henry C. Klassen. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 496 pp., illus., paper, $29.95. This book is the most detailed, comprehensive, and accurate account ever published on the business history of an Alberta region.Some forty personal...

Hiding the Audience: Viewing Arts & Art Institutions on the Prairies.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Frances W. Kaye. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 324 pp., illus., paper, $29.95 The author looks at three major topics on the prairies in her examination of art institutions that served mostly Anglo audiences but recognized the...

Nationalism from the Margins: Italians in Alberta and British Columbia.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Patricia K. Wood. Montreal: McGill- Queen's University Press, 200 pp., bound, $65.00. As the author is careful to point out, this is not a book about Italians settling in the West. Rather, it is a study of nationalism showing how people...

Looking Back: True Tales from Saskatchewan's Past.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Paul Dederick and Bill Waiser. Calgary: Fifth House Ltd., 128 pp., illus., paper, $12.95. With almost 40 stories and 50 photographs, this little book is a real delight. Among the topics are: the 1918-19 flu epidemic, union strife,...

Where the Meadowlarks Sang: Cherished Scenes from an Artist's Childhood.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Hazel Litzgus. Calgary: Fifth House Ltd., 80 pp. colour illustrations, bound, $27.95. Filled with naive paintings, this book is a pleasure to read or scan. The Lloydminster artist describes the countryside during the seasons and illustrates...

Report on the Great Landslide at Frank, Alta., 1903.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by R.G. McConnell and R.W. Brock. 52 pp., illus., map, paper, $9.95. Available from Dr. M. Grobe, Edmonton Geological Society, 4th Floor, Twin Atria Building, 4999-98 Ave., Edmonton, T6B 2X3. This is a reprint of an important report, published...

A Prairie Memoir: the Life and Times of James Clinkskill, 1853-1936.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 170 pp., illus., paper, $19.95. An important figure in western Canadian history, Clinkskill was a member of the Territorial Legislature, mayor of Saskatoon and prominent businessman. These memoirs, never...

Nellie McClung: a Complete Autobiography.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... edited by Veronica Strong-Boag & Michelle Lynn Rose. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 540 pp., paper, $24.95. First published in 1935 in two volumes, the book provides and personal and very readable account of this member of "The Famous Five."

Sister Heroines: the Roseate Glow of Wartime Nursing, 1914-1918.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Marjorie Barron Norris. Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing, 221 pp., illus., paper. This volume contains diary entries and letters, and other records that trace the experiences of twenty-eight Canadian nurses who served overseas in World...

The Lake O'Hara Art of J.E.H. MacDonald and Hiker's Guide, by Lisa Christensen.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Calgary: Fifth House, 144 pages, illus., colour, paper, $29.95. The Lake O'Hara region, one of the most beautiful spots in the Canadian Rockies, became an obsession of Group of Seven artist J.E.H. MacDonald, after his first visit there in 1924....

Letter to the editor.(about the sketch used to illustrate the article Frank Oliver's Journey to Edmonton)(Letter to the Editor)
June 22, 2003... Editor, Alberta History, I noticed with interest your use of Sydney Hall's sketch to illustrate "Frank Oliver's Journey to Edmonton," in your Spring 2003 issue, page 4. This building was the second telegraph station built at the...