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Protestant agricultural Zions for the western Indian
(Canadian Church Historical Society, 1972-09) Pannekoek, Frits, 1949-
Three evangelical Protestant denominations, the Anglicans, Methodists and Presbyterians established missions in the Canadian West from 1820 to 1870. Their success was marginal, with no missionary achieving the ultimate goal of self-sufficient and predominantly agricultural communities. Their existence was never more than fragile. Agriculture was retarded, only in a few cases spontaneous, and always ancillary to hunting and "tripping".
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The Rev. James Evans and the social antagonisms of the fur trade society, 1840-1846
(Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1974) Pannekoek, Frits, 1949-
In 1839 the Hudson's Bay Company invited four Methodist missionaries, James Evans, William Mason, Robert T. Rundle and George Barnley, to educate the heathen in Rupert's Land. By 1848 only Mason remained, and in 1854 he defected to the Church Missionary Society. Evans stormed out of the West accused of most "unmethodistical and unclerical" intercourse with three Indian maidens. George Barnley left because of a quarrel with Chief Factor Miles over the use of the Company's mess for tea parties. Only Robert T. Rundle departed under more auspicious circumstances; he broke his arm. Yet even he was engaged in a continuing battle with Fort Edmonton's Chief Factor over the Cree translation of the Seventh Commandment.
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The Anglican Church and the disintegration of Red River society, 1818-1870
(McLellan and Stewart Limited, 1976) Pannekoek, Frits, 1949-
In 1821 Red River was desolate, destitute and barbarous. The uncompromising struggle of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company for control of the British North American Fur trade bred ruthlessness and violence. Honourable men became dishonourable and death and whiskey became common. The miseries of the climate compounded those of violence. Grasshoppers more than once destroyed the crops, the buffalo hunt frequently failed, and floods sometimes prevented early spring planting.
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University of Calgary Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections; A Guide to the Collections
(The University of Calgary Libraries, Special Collections Division, 1976) Ingles, Ernest B.; Special Collections; Information Resources; University of Calgary
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A probe into the demographic structure of nineteenth century Red River
(University of Alberta Press, 1976) Pannekoek, Frits, 1949-
To the casual observer in 1830 Red River appeared a picturesque rural backwater dotted with church steeples and numerous windmills. The impression would not have been inaccurate. By 1830 the settlement had recovered from the violent struggle between the British and Canadian fur companies and the accompanying desolation, barbarity, and destitution. But the golden decade of the half sedentary, half nomadic life (built around the extended family and the neighborhood) that had become Red River by 1830 lasted only a few years. By 1840 the settlement was faced with a crisis of the land that caused the breakdown and disintegration of the extended family and consequently Red River. Until the rush of Ontarians in the later nineteenth century killed the Red River dream forever, the settlement writhed in a confused agony seeking to perpetuate its myth of that impossible half nomadic, half sedentary existence. The 1849 free trade crisis, the unrest of the 1850s, and the Riel affair were all products of this breakdown. This is not to deny that they were a result as well of the Company's attempt to fossilize its monopoly, and Ontario's effort to extend its empire westward.
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The Margaret P. Hess Collection
(The University of Calgary Libraries, Special Collections Division, 1977) Ingles, Ernest B.; Special Collections; Information Resources; University of Calgary
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Irish Decorative Bookbindings at The University of Calgary
(Amphora, 1977) Carnie, Robert H.; Special Collections; Information Resources; University of Calgary
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Canadian Authors Manuscripts; A Guide to the Collections
(The University of Calgary Libraries, Special Collections Division, 1978) Ingles, Ernest B.; Tener, Jean F.; Special Collections; Information Resources; University of Calgary
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CODOC: a Canadian Cooperative Computerized Scheme for Published Government Documents
(Canadian Journal of Information Science, 1978-05) Westell, Mary E.; Ready, William
The objective of a union file of government documents has been achieved in Ontario. A recent CODOC meeting established a new organizational structure that will ensure the future of the union system, while allowing individual members maximum flexibility in their own operations.
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Some comments on the social origins of the Riel Protest of 1869
(Winnipeg: Pemmican Publications, 1979) Pannekoek, Frits, 1949-
The English-speaking folk of Red River looked with excitement and hope on the debates that surrounded the confederation of the eastern provinces. The Protestant Canadians, arriving in vocal and visible numbers in the 1860s to farm along the Assiniboine and to trade in the small village of Winnipeg, provided ample evidence of the vigour that the new connection would bring. All were anxious that union be effected quickly and quietly. Even the Protestant English speaking mixed-bloods looked to Canada to pull Red River out of its morass of pettiness and squalor. When it became clear that Canada had secured the chartered land of the Hudson's Bay Company, most were ready, indeed anxious, to welcome the Canadian Governor, no matter how obnoxious he might be. (Metis)
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'Corruption' at Moose
(Canada's National History Society, 1979) Pannekoek, Frits, 1949-
On the cold, desolate, wind-swept shore of Hudson Bay, winters were long and there was nothing but brandy and talk to relieve the boredom of the endless ice and the interminable meals of salt geese and dried pease. Tempers grew shorter as the winter lengthened and the new recruits succumbed to the bottle and inevitable melancholia. Rebellions brewed and violence was too often the order of the day. Only a few found life even tolerable. These few lived a careful compromise between the heavily regulated life of the Company fort and the freedom offered by the camps of the 'Home Guard' Indians? those Indians who lived near the fort year-round and provided local food supplies to the Company.
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The Rev. Griffiths Owen Corbett and the Red River Civil War of 1869-70
(University of Toronto Press, 1979-06) Pannekoek, Frits, 1949-
G.F.G. Stanley and W.L. Morton have offered two contradictory and well documented interpretations of the first Riel resistance. Professor Stanley places the resistance within the framework of the frontier thesis. To him it was a 'manifestation ... of the problem of the frontier, namely the clash between primitive and civilized peoples. In all parts of the world, in South Africa, New Zealand and North America, the penetration of white settlement into territories inhabited by native peoples had led to friction and wars; Canadian expansion into the North-West led to a similar result. Here both half-breed population and Indian tribes rose in arms against Canadian intrusion and the imposition of an alien civilization.' Professor Morton disagrees with Stanley. For him 'what the Metis chiefly feared in 1869 was not the entrance of the agricultural frontier of Ontario into Red River - and they would have welcomed that of Quebec - but the sudden influx of immigrants of English speech and Protestant faith.'
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The Eighteenth Century Book-Trade in the British Isles; An Exhibition of Books, Bindings and Manuscripts
(The University of Calgary Libraries, Special Collections Division, 1980) Carnie, Robert H.; Steele, Apollonia; Special Collections; Information Resources; University of Calgary
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The Dr. Lawrence A. Sparrow Memorial Donation of Edward S. Curtis' THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN
(1980) Roseneder, Jan; Special Collections; Information Resources; University of Calgary
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The historiography of the Red River Settlement, 1830-1868
(Canadian Plains Research Center, 1981) Pannekoek, Frits, 1949-
In the many studies of the Red River Settlement written since 1856, the prime factors affecting the Settlement have been variously conceived as economic, geographic or political. In contrast to the traditional historical studies exploring these external influences, recent writings have dealt with the internal dynamics of the community as the source of development and change. Dans les nombreuses etudes realisees depuis 1856 sur la colonie de la Riviere Rouge, les facteurs primordiaux affectant cette colonie ont ete percu comme etant d'ordre economique, geographique ou politique. Par opposition avec les etudes historiques traditionnelles explorant ces influences externes, de recentes etudes ont traite de la dynamique interne de la communaute comme etant la source de developpement et de changement.
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Insidious sources and the historical interpretation of the Pre-1870 West
(Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1981) Pannekoek, Frits, 1949-
There has been a noticeable absence of the Anglican church, or its documents, in the mainstream of Canadian historical writing on the pre-1870 west. This does not mean that the Church of England has not been the subject of exhaustive research; it has been, by church historians or historians of missionary endeavours like T.C.B. Boon, Arthur Thompson, Vera Fast, Katherine Pettipas, and Frank Peake. Rather it means that those historians struggling with the broader social and economic history of the pre-1870 west, who set the general direction of western Canadian historiography, have ignored not only the Church of England and its contributions, but more important the archives of its various missionary societies and one diocese. A brief examination of the various mainstream authors who have set the interpretation of the pre-1870 west will illustrate these points.
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Extravaganza! Fantasy Scenes and Costumes from 100 Years of Variety Theatre, 1850-1950
(University of Calgary Librairies, Special Collections Division, 1981) McCoy, Philip; Special Collections; Information Resources; University of Calgary
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On -transform
(1981-01-01) Nasim, C.
Using a combination of infinite order linear differential operators and integral operators, the inversion of K-transform is established. Inversion procedures for Laplace transform and Potential transform are derived as special cases.
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The Coutts Collection: A Selected Descriptive Bibliography
(The University of Calgary Libraries, Special Collections Division, 1982) Ryder, Carolyn; Banks, Joyce; Roseneder, Jan; Special Collections; Information Resources; University of Calgary
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Inversion of the Poisson-Hankel transform
(1982-01-01) Nasim, C.
The Poisson-Hankel transform is defined as an integral transform of the initial temperature function, with the kernel as the source solution of the generalized heat equation. In this paper a technique involving integral and differential operators has been used to effect the inversion of the Poisson-Hankel transform.