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Bob Scriver is best known for his work in bronze and for his pivotal role in the rise of 'cowboy art'. Living and working on the Montana Blackfoot Reservation, Scriver created a bronze foundry, a museum, and a studio - an atelier based on classical methods, but with local Blackfoot artisans. This title is a biography of sculptor Bob Scriver.

There is little doubt that Canadian media & cultural institutions have been buffeted by the sheer magnitude of new communication technologies. This title illuminates the present media climate, & in doing so, suggests challenging paths forward that utilises the array of media technology to strengthen a Canadian cultural identity.

Highlights transboundary research and practices being undertaken within and across the Pacific border regions of North America. This book focuses on critical areas of international concern and engagement: land and water use planning; regional growth management; trade and transportation corridors; environmental education; and travel and tourism.

Until the age of seven, Olga Barsony lived an idyllic life in Szarvas, a small town in Hungary, surrounded by her doting, observant Jewish family. In spring 1944, Olga & most of her family were interned in the Auspitz labour camp shortly after the Nazi occupation of Hungary. This Holocaust memoir expose the little-known Auspitz labour camp.

Incorporating an array of subjects pertaining to planning, producing, analysing, & theorising theatre, this title includes strategies for re-creating theatre for students whose first language is not French.

It has been said that education in post-colonial Africa is in a state of crisis. Policies and practices from Eurocentric colonial regimes have carried over, intertwining with challenges inherent in the political and economic climate. This book examines education in the African context.

Exploring Latin American cultural identities from multiple vantage points, this collection addresses such phenomena as migration, globalisation, & gender, & examines the ways in which individuals relate to & identify with one another.

Cross-border issues between Canada & the US have increasingly become a hot-button political topic as well as a burgeoning area of study. This collection presents views on the comparison of the Canadian & American Wests & the various methodologies involved.

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has a storied history as the progenitor & stalwart defender of Canadian cinematic culture. This title examines a period at the National Film Board when its creative output & guiding principles reflected less the cultural mainstream, identifying instead more with the surging wave of International Communism.

Offers a perspective on missionary-aboriginal encounters between the Berens River Ojibwa & Christian missionaries between 1875 & 1940 moving beyond a simple chronicle of the introduction & adoption of Christian elements by the Ojibwa to recognise & highlight the complicated ebb & flow of ideas & beliefs between these two groups.

A World War I memoir of Harold McGill, a medical officer in the 31st Alberta Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, that was compiled & written by McGill in the 1930s.

Gives readers a background on the competing tensions of conservation and international economics. Suitable for those concerned about conservation and the future of the world's forests, this memoir underscores the intricacies and intertwining of forest policy, economics, and public policy.

Delves into the Jewish community in Montreal in the first three decades of the twentieth century. This title introduces several rabbis who, in various ways, impacted their immediate congregations as well as the wider Montreal Jewish community. It examines the interrelationship among a number of rabbis sharing the same communal 'turf'.

A collection of essays that bring together a diverse range of voices that speak to the issues of home, gender & identity. It includes information on the ideologies of the human body in the West, the challenges women face in securing the material needs to create healthy homes & bodies, & environments where feminist practices have made a difference.

Features description of the Rocky Mountain West by British adventurers, poets, and journalists.

A collection of letters that reveal much about the immigrant experience and detail how these pioneers fared in the early years of Alberta's history. It pictures the pioneer experience in detail, from the lonely homestead on the bald prairie to a well-developed rural community with railroads and towns, churches and schools.

Investigates the complex relationship between the role of policing, the political sphere, & social progress. This title attempts to analyse the effects on provincial police in Alberta and Saskatchewan of various social phenomena ranging from political radicals and vagrants, to prohibition bootleggers & black market profiteers.

Incorporating colour photographs, Constable's own letters, and descriptions of the painter from other historical material, this title constructs a close reading of landscape painting that engages literary imagination with visual art.

The plea was advertised in the British Medical Journal in February 1929: seeking "strong energetic Medical Women with post-graduate experience in Midwifery" for "country work" in western Canada. A young Dr. Mary Percy was intrigued. After graduating with

Brings together contributions from established and merging scholars in a number of different disciplines who each examine the concept of culture as it is understood and deployed within their respective fields.

Outlining the stages in party evolution, such as the recruitment of activists into the party and the search for a national profile, this book presents the history of Reform Party development. It offers the glimpse of a political party attempting to bridge the participatory demands of its members and the strategic plans of its leaders.

Examines how Albertans have interpreted themselves and their world through history and social studies curricula and texts from 1905 to 1980. This title shows that these courses, more than others, addressed issues of identity by creating the country & region's past.

The frontier reality of confronting new conditions, adapting cultural inclinations, & dealing with a volatile environment in an effort to establish & nurture new communities is central to the western Canadian experience. This title presents a multidisciplinary study using critical essays, creative writing to explore the conceptions of the 'West'.

Examines through multiple lenses eight topics related to the contemporary urban domain. This title seeks to demystify the structure and historical development of the contemporary city. It is suitable for those examining the city from either the professional design or cultural studies standpoint.

Dedicated to the memory of Richard G Forbis, this collection of papers presented by his students and colleagues represents a tribute to a pioneer and legend in Alberta archaeology. It focuses on new directions in northern plains archaeological research.

Representing the constituency of Vegreville, Alberta, for the Social Credit Party, Anthony Hlynka was a high-profile Member of Parliament who garnered much attention from the English-language press. This title presents the story of the only sitting member of parliament of Ukrainian origin from 1940 to 1945.

Explores the differences between the Canadian and American West. This title examines how we conceptualise the history and development of the West and how that influences our perceptions.

Based on the author's own experience of homesteading in northern Alberta at the beginning of the twentieth century, this novel tells the story of a young couple from France, who come to the West filled with naive optimism & romantic hope.

Starting with his middle-class Ottawa upbringing, Forsey's philosophical pilgrimage was the product of a deep allegiance to a Christian social gospel, exposure to the radical politics of the labour movement & the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, & a profound reverence for British Tory constitutionalism. This is a biography of Forsey.