Missions & Missionaries

In-depth study of the collecting activities of two missionaries among the Tsimshian people.

Comments on the Queensland government providing more support to missions than any other government in Australia.

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Art History Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2006.

History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1991.

Analyzes housing in British Columbia and suggests that this became an area of conflict.

Book review of: Ft. Pontchartrain at Detroit by Timothy J. Kent.

Outlines status of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Fund.

Discusses economics of the fur trade and missionary activity.

Includes a preface signed: Joseph Caryl.

Chief Simon Pokagon discusses the colonization of North America and the ensuing wars.

Educational Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 1999.

Compares policies that oppressed Aboriginal women in Australia and Canada during the 19th and 20th centuries. Special Joint issue with Labour History, volume 71.

Focuses on the Kumivit, or Gabrielino, Indians and documents the resistance and responses of women to the new colonial order. The time period covered for this topic includes Toypurina’s revolt and Bartolomea’s bitter recollections of the destruction of her culture.

This out-of-print book was digitized according to a copyright agreement with the author. Ms. Pachano also requested that the original Epilogue not be digitized but has provided a revised 2011 Epilogue instead.

Focusing on Fort Alexander Indian Residential school examines how space applies to physical, biological, and cultural elimination of a group.

Book review of: Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History edited by A. Dirk Moses.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Ottawa, 2011.

Focuses on how Coast Tsimshian were viewed by missionaries, government officials and traders and geographical settings.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba/University of Winnipeg, 1998.

Relates the life of George Flett at the Okanase Reserve in Manitoba.

Reveals a presidential administration that was determined to implement its own plan regardless of opposition voicing to humanitarian concerns or logical arguments.

File contains a photocopy of M. Giraud's article "The Western Metis After the Insurrection," as published in Saskatchewan History Vol. IX No. 1 (winter 1956): pp. 1-15. He gives his impression of the lives of the Metis in the North-West Territories after 1885. He argues that many were destitute living on thin strips of crown land, and only a few had small farms, while others settled on reserves. Many got a title to land worth $240 (scrip), but most sold their title for less than it was worth and then spent the money foolishly.

A photo of the girl's dormitory of the old Anglican Mission school at La Ronge in August 1919. This school was destroyed by fire in March 1920 and a new one built. Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.

Integrated Studies project towards (M.A.)--Athabasca University, 2010.

Theology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Providence College and Seminary, 2000.

Looks at the men sent to spread the word west, Rev. Dr. Thomas Davidson and Rev. Thomas Baldwin.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2001.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Virginia, 2011.

Looks at how aboriginal people resisted the educational efforts of the Oblates and the sisters who taught at the Hobbema residential school.

Religion Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2000.

Arranged alphabetically by title of fonds. Includes date range of records within each, extent, types of media, biographical or administrative information, descriptions of scope and content, and related notes regarding access.

Booklet relating to the Haida people of northern coastal BC, describing various aspects of Haida culture such as daily subsistence, spirituality, shamanism, family life and legends.