The Ladies, the Gwich'in, and the Rat

The Ladies, the Gwich'in, and the Rat
Title The Ladies, the Gwich'in, and the Rat PDF eBook
Author Clara Vyvyan
Publisher University of Alberta
Pages 366
Release 2015-01-02
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1772120901

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In 1926, two British women came from Cornwall to Edmonton and travelled through northern Alberta, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon by rail, sternwheeler, and canoe. For the women, it was a liberating experience, yet Vyvyan's narrative, supported by MacLaren and LaFramboise's insightful editorial work, reveals the imperialist attitudes underlying their travels.

Hospital and Haven

Hospital and Haven
Title Hospital and Haven PDF eBook
Author Mary F. Ehrlander
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 278
Release 2023-10
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1496237390

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Hospital and Haven tells the story of an Episcopal missionary couple who lived their entire married life, from 1910 to 1938, among the Gwich'in peoples of northern Alaska, devoting themselves to the peoples' physical, social, and spiritual well-being. The era was marked by great social disruption within Alaska Native communities and high disease and death rates, owing to the influx of non-Natives in the region, inadequate sanitation and hygiene, minimal law enforcement, and insufficient government funding for Alaska Native health care. Hospital and Haven reveals the sometimes contentious yet promising relationship between missionaries, Alaska Natives, other migrants, and Progressive Era medicine. St. Stephen's Mission stood at the center of community life and formed a bulwark against the forces that threatened the Native peoples' lifeways and lives. Dr. Grafton (Happy or Hap) Burke directed the Hudson Stuck Memorial Hospital, the only hospital to serve Alaska Natives within a several-hundred-mile radius. Clara Burke focused on orphaned, needy, and convalescing children, raising hundreds in St. Stephen's Mission Home. The Gwich'in in turn embraced and engaged in the church and hospital work, making them community institutions. Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe came to recognize the hospital and orphanage work at Fort Yukon as the church's most important work in Alaska.

Regenerations / Régénérations

Regenerations / Régénérations
Title Regenerations / Régénérations PDF eBook
Author Marie Carrière
Publisher University of Alberta
Pages 329
Release 2014-09-15
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1772120286

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Buttressed by a wealth of new, collaborative research methods and technologies, the contributors of this collection examine women's writing in Canada, past and present, with 11 essays in English and 5 in French. Regenerations was born out of the inaugural conference of the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory held at the Canadian Literature Centre, University of Alberta, and exemplifies the progress of radically interdisciplinary research, collaboration, and publishing efforts surrounding Canadian women's writing. Researchers and students interested in Canadian literature, Québec literature, women's writing, literary history, feminist theory, and digital humanities scholarship should definitely acquaint themselves with this work. Contributors: Nicole Brossard, Susan Brown, Marie Carrière, Patricia Demers, Louise Dennys, Cinda Gault, Lucie Hotte, Dean Irvine, Gary Kelly, Shauna Lancit, Mary McDonald-Rissanen, Lindsey McMaster, Mary-Jo Romaniuk, Julie Roy, Susan Rudy, Chantal Savoie, Maïté Snauwaert, Rosemary Sullivan, and Sheena Wilson.

Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis

Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis
Title Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis PDF eBook
Author Miriam Green Ellis
Publisher University of Alberta
Pages 297
Release 2013-01-10
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0888646267

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Looking at early twentieth-century westerners through the writings of an acerbic female agricultural journalist.

When Disease Came to this Country

When Disease Came to this Country
Title When Disease Came to this Country PDF eBook
Author Liza Piper
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 361
Release 2023-07-31
Genre History
ISBN 1009320874

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A revisionist history of epidemic disease as experienced by northern Indigenous peoples in present day Canada's Yukon and Northwest Territories between 1860 and 1940. Liza Piper connects the history of epidemics in northern North America to persistent health disparities arising from settler colonialism.

Pacific Northwest Quarterly

Pacific Northwest Quarterly
Title Pacific Northwest Quarterly PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 492
Release 1999
Genre Northwest, Pacific
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Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research
Title Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 492
Release 1999
Genre Alpine regions
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