Alberta History articles from September 2004

Alberta History archives from September 2004

A view from the past.
September 22, 2004... The Banff Indian Days was a major celebration in the mountain townsite from the turn of the century until 1978. Following a week after the Calgary Stampede, it was an important tourist event that included Stoney, Blackfoot, and Sarcee Indians....

The miners strike out: the Lethbridge coal miners' strike of 1906.
September 22, 2004... In December of 1906, nearly 500 men from the Alberta Railway & Irrigation Company (AR&I) coal mines in Lethbridge went back to work for the first time in over nine months. (1) This marked the end of one of the bitterest periods in southern...

Gold at Chief Mountain.
September 22, 2004... The reported discovery of gold near Chief Mountain has excited considerable interest among the citizens of Benton, and many recall the Indian stories current in this vicinity years ago regarding a party of white men who, the Indians said, were...

Eva Reid: girl reporter.(Biography)
September 22, 2004... One of Calgary's longest serving and best loved newspaper columnists discovered her talent for writing only through a lucky break. In the height of the Depression, Eva Reid could not find work as a stenographer so when a friend launching a...

Young man! When you're low on your dough: the depression and YMCA's Leisure Time League.
September 22, 2004... With the onset of the Depression in 1929, once plentiful jobs and personal choice in Canadian cities disappeared, and young middle class men educated to the Protestant work ethic no longer had employment opportunities. A consequence was fewer...

Pete Knight, The Cowboy King.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Pete Knight, The Cowboy King by Darryl Knight. Calgary: Detselig Enterprises, 167 pp., paper, illus., $29.95. This is by far the best account of Pete Knight that has ever been written, and ranks high with the best rodeo biographies in...

The Fur and Robe Trade in Blackfoot Country, 1831 to 1880: National Fur Trade Symposium Proceedings, 2003.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
September 22, 2004... The Fur and Robe Trade in Blackfoot Country, 1831 to 1880: National Fur Trade Symposium Proceedings, 2003 River and Plains Society, Box 262, Fort Benton, MT, 59442, 137 pp., paper, illus., colour, $15 U.S. A dozen articles on the...

The Mounties March West.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Mounties March West, 327 pp. and Mountain Men, 222 pp. both by Tony Hollihan. Gabriel Dumont: War Leader of the Metis, 230 pp., by Tim Chodan and Dan Asfar. Mobsters & Rum Runners of Canada, 208 pp., by Gord Steinke. Edmonton:...

A Prisoner of War Diary: the Ray Heard Memoirs, 1939-45.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... A Prisoner of War Diary: The Ray Heard Memoirs, 1939-45, by Raymond Heard. Red Deer: Central Alberta Historical Society and Central Alberta Regional Museums Network. 243 pp., illus., paper, $24.95. Ray Heard, now a resident of Red Deer, was...

Common & Contested Ground: a Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
September 22, 2004... Common & Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains, by Theodore Binnema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 263 pp., maps, paper, $27.95. This is a reprint of a hard cover volume published in the United...

The Al Azhar Mounted Patrol 50th Anniversary.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
September 22, 2004... The Al Azhar Mounted Patrol 50th Anniversary, compiled by Munroe Nimma. 78 pp., illus., coil bound, n.p. 5151-101 Street NW, Calgary, T3L IS4. This is an update of an earlier volume and is basically a scrapbook of photos and stories.

Year 2004 Legacy Campaign.
September 22, 2004... The Society wishes to acknowledge and thank the following persons and organizations for their support of our Year 2004 Legacy Campaign: Larraine Andrews, Dr. William P. Baergen, Raymond & Violet Ball, Lawrence W. Barany, Georgeen Barrass,...