Alberta History articles from September 2003

Alberta History archives from September 2003

Our fiftieth anniversary.(Alberta History began as Alberta Historical Review)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
September 22, 2003... This year marks the golden anniversary of Alberta History. First published in 1953, it started out in life as the Alberta Historical Review, a hand-bound multilith magazine printed on legal-sized paper. It was a modest effort but promised...

Fifty years later: experiences of an editor.
September 22, 2003... When I took over as editor of Alberta History (then called the Alberta Historical Review) in 1958, I'd already been associate editor for two years and had been helping out since the first issue in 1953. The first copies were multilithed (one...

The mystery of the Canadian Himalayas.(David Douglas over-estimates height of mountains in Canadian Rockies)
September 22, 2003... The history of mountaineering in Canada began with a miscalculation. On 1 May 1827 a sight-impaired 28-year-old Scottish botanist named David Douglas climbed to the top of a peak in what is now Jasper National Park and recorded in his journal...

Cars in Banff.(first use of coach road in Banff National Park, 1909)(Brief Article)(Reprint)
September 22, 2003... Norman Lougheed arrived here last Saturday in his big automobile, this being the first car to enter the National Park over the coach road recently completed from Calgary by the Alberta Government. On Tuesday Mr. Downey of Calgary and Mr....

C. H. Stout: backtracking on old trails.(Clarence Howard Stout)(memoirs of Alberta journalist)
September 22, 2003... In the ninetieth of his ninety-three years Clarence Howard Stout got down to something many are urged to do, some intend to do, and a few actually do; he wrote his memoirs. With his late start he couldn't pause to reflect or revise and stayed...

They didn't all homestead.(Saskatchewan Land & Homestead Company )
September 22, 2003... One of the great stories of western Canadian history, one which has taken on almost mythic proportions, is the story of the great homestead rush. Hundreds of thousands of settlers moved west, attracted by the lure of free land and the prospect...

A warrior's robe.(Mike Mountain Horse, a Bood Indian veteran of World War One)
September 22, 2003... One of the most popular figures in Lethbridge during the 1930s was Mike Mountain Horse, a Blood Indian who participated in parades, wrote articles for the local newspaper, and often spoke to school children and women's groups. One of the...

The first women: Southern Alberta native women before 1900 (1).
September 22, 2003... History has not been kind to women--Indian, (2) mixed-blood, or white. It has usually, followed a men's agenda of war, politics, and business. Since women's contributions to living conditions over the years have often followed different paths...

"Grassroots" history: agricultural land use in Alberta.
September 22, 2003... Historians explore the past by focussing on human and institutional interactions. Here, political, social, economic and cultural forces comprise the primary interpretive vehicles for historical inquiry. In Alberta, and western Canada for that...

The Reineberg houses.
September 22, 2003... I had never really entertained the fantasy of a castle or great house in my family's past, so I was shocked to learn that in Germany there had been a Reineberg castle-though it didn't survive the late 1700s. Whether the castle had anything to...

The Grande Prairie land rush of 1910.(Alberta land settlement history from the 1870's on)(excerpts from newspapers of the time)
September 22, 2003... Ever since explorer Charles Horetzky and botanist John Macoun began touting the Peace River country as a "veritable garden of Eden" in the 1870s, visitors to the region have been struck by its rich agricultural potential. Some scientists. such...

Calgary's King Edward Hotel.(historic Alberta hotel and a history of its managers)
September 22, 2003... Like its famous four-star counterpart in Toronto, the King Edward Hotel in Calgary dates from the early twentieth-century reign of its namesake, King Edward VII. Calgary's King Eddy is the oldest continuously operating hotel in the city and the...

An Alberta political revolution and Calgary's Lougheed Building.(rise of United Farmers of Alberta)(historical and political significance of the Lougheed Building)
September 22, 2003... The Herald of July 27, 1921, reported the excitement of that morning: "It was only towards mid-day that there appeared any animation within the room, so closely guarded, wherein the farmers were holding their deliberations. It began with mild...

Upholding social decency and political equality: the Lacombe Western Globe and the Ku Klux Klan, 1929-1932.
September 22, 2003... In 1926, the Blairmore Enterprise reported a Calgary' clergyman's warning that the Ku Klux Klan was not welcome in the West because of its well known traditions of vigilantism and taking "the law into its own hands." (1) However, when the Klan...

Trails and Trials: Markets and Land Use in Alberta Beef Cattle Industry, 1881-1948.(Book review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Max Foran. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 332 pp., illus., paper, $34.95. The importance of ranching to Alberta is well known, yet there are a limited number of books on the subject. Foran has helped to resolved this with this...

State of Struggle: Feminism and Politics in Alberta.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Lois Harder. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 256 pp., paper, $34.95. The subject of this book is the struggle between feminist groups and the various Conservative governments in Alberta since the 1970s. Out of two early...

Wolf Mountains: a History of Wolves Along the Great Divide.(Book review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Karen R. Jones. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 340 pp., illlus., hard cover $49.95. In this impressive study, the author examines the history of wolves in Banff, Jasper, Yellowstone, and Glacier parks. She provides information on...

Great Chiefs.(Book review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Tony Hollihan. Edmonton: Lone Pine Publishing, 2 vols. each 320 pp., illus., paper, $10.95 each, These books draw upon established published sources to recount the biographies of twelve native leaders including Sitting Bull, Geronimo,...

The Story Behind Alberta Names: How Cities, Towns, Villages and Hamlets Got their Names.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Harry M. Sanders. Calgary: Red Deer Press, 344 pp., illus., paper, $19.95. The study of place-names is a fascinating pastime. Some names were borrowed from other lands while others have their own unique stories. Here are some examples:...

Alequiers, the History of a Homestead.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
September 22, 2003... Alequiers, the history of a homestead, by Mike Schintz. Calgary: University of Alberta Press, 190 pp., illus., paper, $24.95 An excellent account of a homesteading family in the Longview district.

Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
September 22, 2003... Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940, by George Colpitts. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 216 pp., hard cover, $75.00, paper $29.95. From Indian hunters to conservation groups, this book...

John T. Schmidt's Beat: From Barnyards to Boardrooms.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
September 22, 2003... John T. Schmidt's Beat: From Barnyards to Boardrooms, by John Schmidt. Privately printed. Available from the author, RR 1, Standard, AB, TOJ 3G0, $25. These are the recollections of the onetime Calgary Herald agricultural writer who has been...

The Lure of the Peace River Country, 1872-1919.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
September 22, 2003... The Lure of the Peace River Country, 1872-1919, by David W. Leonard & Victoria L. Lemieux. Calgary: Detselig Enterprises, 200 pp., illus., hard cover, $45.95. This well written and well illustrated book is a reprint from 1992 and long out of...

Sweetgrass Hills: A Natural and Cultural History.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
September 22, 2003... Sweetgrass Hills: A Natural and Cultural History, by Johan F. Dormaar, Lethbridge: Lethbridge Historical Society, 84 pp., illus., colour, paper, $19.95. If there is anything you've wanted to known about those magnificent hills that flank the...

Year 2003 Legacy Campaign.
September 22, 2003... The Society wishes to acknowledge and thank the following persons and organizations for their support of our Year 2003 Legacy Campaign. Funds from this campaign are being used to publish this 50th Anniversary Commemorative issue and to aid in...