Fur Trade & Exploration

Outdoor, billboard-sized installations depict the Bundjalung stories of the Dreamtime and how the Indigenous lifestyle interwove with European and Asian settlement.

Explores early First Nations trading and business ventures, as well as present-day small businesses, including the Cree Way gas station in Saskatoon.

Describes Lieut. William Francis Butler’s journey, in the winter of 1870, to distribute small pox medicines and instructions for treatment of the disease to people and communities between the Red River Settlement and the Rockies; includes some details about Cree, Métis, and Blackfoot peoples. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 24.

Autobiographical narrative of Methodist missionary in 19th century Canada.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2017.

Looks at historical, moral and legal claims by the Nishga.

A copied version of the Calendar of Selkirk Papers, including information about interactions with Indigenous persons in the area at the time.

A copied version of the Calendar of Selkirk Papers, including information about interactions with indigenous persons in the area at the time.

Collection of papers from the early 1800's including the interactions of an early European settler and soldier with Indigenous peoples at the time.

Book review of: A Call for Reform: The Southern California Indian Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson edited by Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi.

Description, field diary and pictures of Alice Fletcher's (1834-1923) six-week travels to Dakota territory in the fall of 1881. Includes photos of Sitting Bull.

Book review of Canada and Arctic North America: An Environmental History by Graeme Wynn.

A Parks Canada file containing a pamphlet and two history reports. The pamphlet (scanned), entitled "Cypress Hills Massacre National Historic Site" tells the story of the Cypress Hills Massacre and includes a map of the site. Manuscript Report Number 252 Fort Battleford: A Structural History Volume II: Photographs, Diagrams, Maps by Walter Hidebrandt and Manuscript Report Number 164 Lanark Place, Abernethy, Saskatchewan Structural History by William Naftel, Personnel and Garrisons at Coteau-du-Lac by Karen Price, and The Human Osteology of the Fort Coteau-du-Lac Site by J.

Links to information on treaties, laws, and events from the first contact to 2003.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--Univerisity of Saskatchewan, 2010.

Travel narrative with a focus on the Westcoast First Nations of British Columbia.

Book review of: Canada's First Nations by Olive Dickason.

Reprinted from the Montreal Transcript.

Reprint of article relating to Canadian Aboriginals, mentioning pre-contact, history from the 19th and 20th centuries, and notable Aboriginals in various fields of employment and achievement.

Book review of: The Canadian Rockies by Esther Fraser.

Argues that teaching must acknowledge colonization's impact on Indigenous peoples and the land.

Story of the Montreal canoe, the largest birchbark vessel ever used in Canada, and its role in the fur trade. Includes links to Aboriginal canoe styles, transportation, voyageures and portaging, Sir George Simpson's Travels

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2015.

Brief history about origins of the first settlement south of Sydney, Australia which was located in the Bass Strait between Tasmania and the Australian mainland.

Provides overview of some of the notable American individual producers cashing in on the stampede during the 1890s.

Correspondence relating to information on the Capot River fort or Nut Lake House, located in the Kelvington-Nut Lake area of Saskatchewan. [Page 2 of reply from staff member of the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan missing].

Book review of: Captain Cook Was Here by Maria Nugent. Review located by scrolling to page 333.

Typed copy of a well-referenced paper presented to the Royal Society of Canada by Lawrence J. Burpee and printed in the Society's Transactions, Section 2, 1929. It discusses Kelsey's career with the Hudson's Bay Company and contains a number of brief mentions of encounters and trade with Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, Cree, Athapaskan, Chipewyans and [Dogribs].

Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 2008.

Carl Christenson worked for the Saskatchewan Fish Board and met both Malcolm Norris and Jim Brady. He talks about the Saskatchewan Fish Board's aims and its functioning as well as his acquaintance with Norris and Brady.

Commemorates Jacques Cartier's wintering camp in 1535-1536 located on the north shore of the Saint-Charles River in Québec City. Provides links to things to do and historical aspects of the park.

Studies how maps have played a role in clarifying and evaluating Native American land tenure.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Idaho, 2003.

Argues that contrary to what is generally accepted, the practise of trapping beaver using this method was in use long before the 1790s, but came into use in the Northeast Indians at that time as First Nations tried to compensate for the lower price of pelts by increasing the number they traded.

Provides a perspective on how Aboriginal women were viewed during the settlement period in 1884 in Alberta.

Examines missionary work and the possibility that the clergy were clandestinely involved in the fur trade to help finance their missions.

Book review of: CCF Colonialism in Northern Saskatchewan by David M. Quiring.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2008.

City Planning Thesis (MCP)--University of Manitoba, 2008.

Forms part of the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 36 (p.1-67).