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Iroquois in the West
Two centuries ago, many hundreds of Iroquois - principally from what is now Kahnawà:ke - left home without leaving behind their ways of life. Recruited to man the large canoes that transported trade goods and animal pelts from and to Montreal, some Iroquois soon returned, while others were enticed ever further west by the rapidly expanding fur trade. Recounting stories of Indigenous self-determination and self-sufficiency, Iroquois in the West tracks four clusters of travellers across time, place, and generations: a band that settled in Montana, another ranging across the American West, others opting for British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest, and a group in Alberta who were evicted whe...
Annual Report For...
"The National Museum of Canada, by W. H. Collins" (historical sketch of the museum): Annual report, 1926, p. 32-70.
Newfoundland Rhapsody
A new perspective on the cultural heritage of Newfoundland and Labrador told through the life of Frederick R. Emerson.
The Trajectories of Rural Life
Rural communities have been profoundly affected by recent political-economic, demographic and cultural change. In Canada, the impacts of these changes are all about us: in the absolute population declines in Saskatchewan and Newfoundland, in the crises of the east and west coast fisheries, in the farm crisis, in serious ecological problems, and in the reorientation of rural social services. There is a tendency to view these problems in stark terms: as part of a qualitatively new era in Canadian history triggered, perhaps, by the forces of "globalization" or "urbanization" or the rise of the "service sector economy." In important ways, however, the problems of rural Canada are not particularl...
Man of Mana, Marius Barbeau
"He was Canada's first French-speaking Rhodes Scholar (1907), a distinguished member and president of the American Folklore Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, winner of the Prix David for writing in French and English, founding secretary of the Canadian Historical Association and a charter member of the Canadian Geographical Society." "The biography also outlines the history of anthropology in Canada."--BOOK JACKET.
Annual Report
"The National Museum of Canada, by W. H. Collins" (historical sketch of the museum): Annual report, 1926, p. 32-70.
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Marius Barbeau's photographic collection
This catalogue features photographs of the Nass River and the Nishga people taken between 1900 and 1950. Most of the collection represents the ethnographic fieldwork done by Marius Barbeau between 1927 and 1929. Published in English.
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