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Militia to North-West Fifty Years Ago Today - Newspaper clippings. - 5 July 1923.

Articles » General
Folder of clippings relating to the 50th anniversary of the Northwest Resistance. All clippings from the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix except where noted. Clippings glued to paper: 1. Almighty Voice's Prison; 2. Poundmaker's Surrender Highlight of Rebellion; 3. Last Buffalo Herds Seen On Western Plains in 1881; 4. Poundmaker's Forces Had Advantage at Cut Knife; 5. Surrender of Big Bear Marked End of Rebellion. Loose clippings: 6. Back in the Bone Age (clipping and photograph); 7. Bloody Massacre, Fifty Years Ago, at Frog Lake Climax of Indian Revolt; 8. Mounties in Riel Rebellion (photograph); 9.
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Mistress Madeleine

Alternate Title
Daughters of the Country
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Aaron Kim Johnston
Tells the story of a Métis woman who appears to be quite happy and content in her common-law marriage to a Hudson's Bay Company clerk until he deserts her because of her background and company policy. Duration: 57:01
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Mobile Architecture, Improvization and Museum Practice: Revitalizing the Tłįcho Caribou Skin Lodge

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About the Hearth: Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Thomas D. Andrews
Examines the ethnographic context of two collaborative repatriation projects and explores lessons learned from these projects in light of Dene value frameworks. Chapter 3 from About the Hearth: Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North edited by David G. Anderson, Robert P. Wishart, Virginie Vaté
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Money and the Changing Nature of Colonial Space in Northern Quebec: Fur Trade Monopolies, the State, and Aboriginal Peoples During the Nineteenth Century

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brian Gettler
Histoire Sociale / Social History, vol. 46, no. 92, November 2013, pp. [271]-293
Looks at how the wide-scale colonization of Saguenay-Lac St. Jean altered the monetary landscape by introducing new trading partners and currencies.
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Moose Factory: Heritage Planning in a Northern Community

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Arthur J. Ray
Native Studies Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Native Peoples, Museums, and Heritage Resource Management, 1987, pp. 99-121
Discusses project which explored ways to increase tourism through exploiting connection to the history of the Hudson's Bay Company.
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My Album of Memories - Leslie Garrett. - Book. - [1976?].

E-Books
Author/Creator
Leslie Garrett
Autobiography of Leslie Garrett, born 1898 into a religious family in England. He became a minister of the Church of England after emigrating to Canada in 1913. In 1923 he was assigned to Big Trout Lake, ON, and did missionary work among the Aboriginal population for 31 years. In 1953 he moved to Loon Lake, SK, as a senior missionary for the Northern Canada Evangelical Mission.
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Negotiating Divergent Economic and Social Systems in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century North America: Women and the Fur Trade

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IEHC 2006: Settler Economies in World History ; Session 97
International Economic History Congress ; 14th, 2006
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Susan Sleeper-Smith
Explores the exchange processes that came to characterize the North Atlantic commerce in furs. Paper presented at the 14th International Economic History Congress, Helsinki, Finland, 21-25, August 2006.
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Nehiyawak Dolls as Self-Representation and Embodied History

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Canadian Women Artists History Initiative: The Artist Herself: Broadening Ideas of Self-portraiture in Canada: The Third Conference of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Sherry Farrell Racette
Paper presented at The Artist Herself: Broadening Ideas of Self-Portraiture in Canada, Third Conference of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative, 8–9 May 2015, Queen’s University. Duration: 24:26.
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A New Nation: The Métis

Alternate Title
People and Stories of Canada to 1867
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
[Michele Visser-Wikkerink]
[E. Leigh Syms]

Chapter 9 of People and Stories of Canada to 1867 by Michele Visser-Wikkerink and E. Leigh Syms. Recommended by Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth as a Manitoba Grade 5 Social Studies learning resource.

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"Ninstints" Village: A Case of Mistaken Identity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steven R. Acheson
BC Studies, no. 68, Winter, 1985, pp. 47-56
Looks at the socio-political status and organization of this village at the onset of European contact in 1787.
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Nipawi, on the Saskatchewan River, and its Historic Sites

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Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada ; 3rd series, section 2 ; vol. 38, 194
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Arthur S. Morton

This history deals primarily with the fur trade and the numerous posts in the "Nipawi", or Fort a la Corne and Nipawin areas along the Saskatchewan River from the 1750s to the 1790s. It contains historical and field research by Morton on the various French, Northwest Company, Independent, and Hudson's Bay Company posts found in this region of what is today Saskatchewan. Morton also discusses the war between the Cree and the original Atsina, or Gros Ventre, inhabitants of the area, as well as trade between First Nations and Europeans.

Historical note:

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The Nishga and the Fur Trade, 1834-1842

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
E. Palmer Patterson
Native Studies Review , vol. 6, no. 1, 1990, pp. 67-82
Explores Nishga-European contact from the perspective of land-based fur trade centred at Fort Simpson.
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The North West Company

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in History ; vol. VII
E-Books
Author/Creator
Gordon Charles Davidson
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Northern Exposure

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Chris Nikkei
The Beaver, vol. 90, no. 1, February/March 2010, p. 13
Description of two movies made in the early 1900s portraying the North, Nanook of the North and Romance of the Far Fur Country.
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Northwest Changes

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Kerri Martin]

Power point looks at how the conflict between the Hudson's Bay Company and the Northwest Company influenced events in the Red River Settlement which ultimately led to the Battle of Seven Oaks.

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Notes and Comments on Harmon’s Journal 1800-1820

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Author/Creator
George Bryce
D.W. Harmon
Transactions of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, no. 9, Series 1, December 13, 1883, p. [?]
Author of journal was employed in the fur trade by the North West Company.
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Notes on the Tinneh or Chepewyan Indians of British and Russian America

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Notes on the Dene or Chippewyan Indians of British and Russian America
Notes on the Tinneh or Chipewyan Indians of British and Russian America
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
William L. Hardisty
Strachan Jones
Bernard R. Ross
Includes three 19th century Hudson Bay Company employees' descriptive narratives about the Loucheux, Kutchin and eastern Dene Nations.
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