Author: M. Elizabeth ARTHURPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Thunder Bay District, 1821-1892. A Collection of Documents. Edited with an Introduction by Elizabeth Arthur
Author: M. Elizabeth ARTHURThunder Bay District, 1821-1892
Author: Elizabeth ArthurPublisher: [Toronto]: Champlain Society for the Government of Ontario: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802001795
Category : Ontario
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This compilation begins in the "twilight period" that followed the amalgamation of the North West and Hudson Bay companies, and extends into the years of fresh economic activity that enlivened the district in the late 19th century. "The Introduction and the Documents are arranged with the idea of stressing the peculiarities of Thunder Bay history, especially for the reader unacquainted with it," explained Elizabeth Arthur. Subjects covered include jurisdiction problems, the 1855 Wolseley expedition to Red River, vital surveying between 1855 and 1870, and the construction of the transcontinental railway."--Champlain Society.
Thunder Bay District, 1821-1892
Author: Elizabeth ArthurPublisher:
ISBN: 9781442656376
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
"This compilation begins in the "twilight period" that followed the amalgamation of the North West and Hudson Bay companies, and extends into the years of fresh economic activity that enlivened the district in the late 19th century. "The Introduction and the Documents are arranged with the idea of stressing the peculiarities of Thunder Bay history, especially for the reader unacquainted with it," explained Elizabeth Arthur. Subjects covered include jurisdiction problems, the 1855 Wolseley expedition to Red River, vital surveying between 1855 and 1870, and the construction of the transcontinental railway."--Champlain Society.
Thunder Bay District, 1821 - 1892
Author: Elizabeth ArthurPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442633077
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
This volume is a pioneering excursion into the documentary history of a region of northern Ontario. Previously published original documents on the history of the Thunder Bay area have been of two kinds: accounts of the fur trade before 1821, and evidence supporting rival claims in the boundary disputes of the 1870s and 1880s. Although this collection does not include some illustrative material on these topics, its main purpose is to shed light upon other aspects of northern development, including the best-known and most pervasive problem—isolation from the rest of British North America. This volume deals with events up to 1892, considerably later than any of the other volumes in the Ontario Series. The documents tell the story of the silver mines—from the first rumours of wealth, through the excitement of the Silver Islet era, to the closing down of the mines in the early 1890s—and place the era of transcontinental railway building as part of local rather than national history. The documents also treat the development of numerous communities created through mining activity and railway building, showing how precariously they were based, how jealous they were of rival towns, and how anxious for the favours they might receive from government or company decisions. This collection should provide a basis for continuing research into northwestern Ontario history.
Eldon House Diaries
Author: Robin S. HarrisPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442638567
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
Eldon House is a distinctive element in the historical townscape of London, Ontario. By the mid-nineteenth century, its original owners, John and Amelia Harris, were prominent members of society in that dynamic community. Their children grew up in the affluent and cultured setting of a family whose increasing prosperity advanced with that of London and western Ontario. If London had an elite, the Harris family was part of it, and Eldon House was an important focal point of the social regimen of the day. A considerable corpus of family papers within the Eldon House and prominent among these papers is a collection of diaries that are excerpted in this volume, encapsulating the personalities, activities, and voices of the Harrises of London. These diaries are valuable because of the details of the warp and woof of daily life in the nineteenth century. But, more importantly, they are women's diaries. As such, they speak to us of the verities of personal, domestic, and societal life in the neglected voice of women. Together, they provide a fascinating perspective of these women's lives in, around, and beyond Eldon House.
The Publications of the Champlain Society
Author: Thunder Bay District, 1821-1962
Author: Elizabeth ArthurPublisher:
ISBN: 9780073177137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Contours of a People
Author: Brenda MacDougallPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806188170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
What does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their world, and how do family, community, and location shape their consciousness? Such questions inform this collection of essays on the northwestern North American people of mixed European and Native ancestry who emerged in the seventeenth century as a distinct culture. Volume editors Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall go beyond the concern with race and ethnicity that takes center stage in most discussions of Metis culture to offer new ways of thinking about Metis identity. Geography, mobility, and family have always defined Metis culture and society. The Metis world spanned the better part of a continent, and a major theme of Contours of a People is the Metis conception of geography—not only how Metis people used their environments but how they gave meaning to place and developed connections to multiple landscapes. Their geographic familiarity, physical and social mobility, and maintenance of family ties across time and space appear to have evolved in connection with the fur trade and other commercial endeavors. These efforts, and the cultural practices that emerged from them, have contributed to a sense of community and the nationalist sentiment felt by many Metis today. Writing about a wide geographic area, the contributors consider issues ranging from Metis rights under Canadian law and how the Library of Congress categorizes Metis scholarship to the role of women in maintaining economic and social networks. The authors’ emphasis on geography and its power in shaping identity will influence and enlighten Canadian and American scholars across a variety of disciplines.
The Canadian Historical Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Includes section: Recent publications relating to Canada.
With Good Intentions
Author: Celia Haig-BrownPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774842490
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
With Good Intentions examines the joint efforts of Aboriginal people and individuals of European ancestry to counter injustice in Canada when colonization was at its height, from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. These people recognized colonial wrongs and worked together in a variety of ways to right them, but they could not stem the tide of European-based exploitation. The book is neither an apologist text nor an attempt to argue that some colonizers were simply "well intentioned." Almost all those considered here -- teachers, lawyers, missionaries, activists -- had as their overall goal the Christianization and civilization of Canada's First Peoples. By discussing examples of Euro-Canadians who worked with Aboriginal peoples, With Good Intentions brings to light some of the lesser-known complexities of colonization.