Chapter XIII, "Prince Albert and the Rebellion". A short account of the Resistance and its effects on Prince Albert by the Editor of the Prince Albert newspaper. Two images included (Telegraph trail and view of Prince Albert in the 1880s).
This book contains photographs of people and places in the Canadian Far North, taken while Mathers was "on a trip from Edmonton to the mouth of the MacKenzie River". There are a number of images of "Esquimaux" wearing traditional clothing and stone lip ornaments, as well as of Native people carrying out tasks at various forts along the Athabasca and Slave Rivers.
File contains the historical booklet, "I Wasn't Put on this Earth for Nothin': Stories from La Loche, Saskatchewan. It was a "Celebrate Saskatchewan, 1905-1980" brochure, compiled by Ray Marnoch.
Lucy Margaret Baker: A Biographical Sketch of the First Missionary of Our Canadian Presbyterian Church to the North-West Indians
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Lucy Margaret Baker
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This file contains an original copy of Lucy Margaret Baker: A Memoir, compiled by Elizabeth A. Byers and published by Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, 1920. It discusses her work with the Cree near Prince Albert, Sask. (Mistawasis Reserve), her teaching at Nisbet Academy, her work during North-West Rebellion, and her efforts to help an "outcast band of Sioux."
A compilation of essays by : Deborah Lee, Liam Haggarty, Brendan Edwards, Tamara Starblanket, Camie Augustus, Kurt Boyer, Anna Flamino, Merle Massie, Yvonne Vizina, Patricia Deiter, Meagan Gough, and Alan Long.
The history of La Ronge, Saskatchewan, is detailed from pre-contact to the arrival of Jean Etienne Waden, first European in the La Ronge area, to present-day businesses, schools and churches in the town; numerous photographs.
Based on papers presented at the conference: The West and Beyond : Historians Past, Present and Future, held at the University of Alberta, 19–21 June, 2008.