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Barman, Jean, 1939- author.
Call Number
971.20049755 23
Publication Date
2019
Summary
"Iroquois principally from Caughnawaga, today's Kahnawà:ke, were recruited now two centuries ago on a par with Whites to man the large canoes taking trade goods west from nearby Montreal, coming back with animal pelts. While some soon returned home, others stuck with the fur trade, yet others made their lives across the west so far as possible on their own terms. Their stories speak to Indigenous self-determination and self-sufficiency. The book tracks four Iroquois clusters or bands across time, place, and generations. Set down among Montana Flatheads, Iroquois responded to their host's desire for the Catholicism they brought with them from Quebec by four expeditions to St. Louis in search of a Jesuit missionary, who no sooner arrived than lost interest, leaving Iroquois once again to mentor their hosts. The fur trade's economic imbalance impelled a second group, whose words quite remarkably survive as they were spoken, to overturn the status quo to the advantage of employees, they themselves engaging the American west. A third group opted for the Pacific Northwest fur trade, those doing so on the American side of a border put in place in 1846 discovering their long service mattered for naught when they sought to settle among their White counterparts, those in British territory faring somewhat better. Repeatedly lauded in travelers' accounts, a fourth cluster was displaced on their homeland becoming Jasper National Park, again on their new locale an Alberta boom town, yet still today self-identify as Iroquois."--
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Freeman, Mini Aodla, author.
Call Number
971.004971 23
Publication Date
2015
Summary
Mini Aodla Freeman's extraordinary story, sometimes humourous and sometimes heartbreaking, illustrates an Inuit woman's movement between worlds and ways of understanding. This critical edition includes an afterword by Keavy Martin and Julie Rak, with Norma Dunning.
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Mennel, Robert M., author.
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971.6230099 23
Publication Date
2013
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A story of vivid personalities and episodes, by turns sad, conflicted, joyful, bitter, funny and reflective, Testimonies and Secrets will be read with pleasure by scholars and general readers alike.
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Gordon, Irene Ternier, author.
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971.03092 23
Publication Date
2013
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Armstrong-Reid, Susan, 1950- author.
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610.73092 23
Publication Date
2013
Summary
In telling Creelman's fascinating story, Susan Armstrong-Reid helps readers learn about the transformation of the nursing profession and global health governance in the twentieth century.
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Couture, Joseph E., author.
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971.00497 23
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2013
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Maturié, Pierre.
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971.23202092 23
Publication Date
2013
Summary
A crystal clear evocation of another time and place and a compelling meditation on hope and loss.
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Armstrong, Jolene.
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971.200497 23
Publication Date
2012
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Waite, P. B. (Peter Busby), 1922-
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971.0623092 23
Publication Date
2012
Summary
An intriguing look at one of Canada's least-known Conservative leaders.
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Hodson, Christopher.
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971.5017 23
Publication Date
2012
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Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North American history, capturing and deporting seven thousand French-speaking Catholic Acadians from the province of Nova Scotia, and chasing an equal number into the wilderness of eastern Canada. Thousands of Acadians endured three decades of forced migrations and failed settlements that shuttled them to the coasts of South America, the plantations of the Caribbean, the frigid islands of the South Atlantic, the swamps of Louisiana, and the countryside of.
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Bélanger, Réal.
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338.04092271 23
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2011
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Pawley, Howard, 1934-
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971.2703092 22
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2011
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