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The journal of Father Léon Doucet presents a rare account of the changes that occurred in what is today Saskatchewan and Alberta in the last half of the nineteenth century. These changes included the spread of devastating disease epidemics, the decline of bison populations, the end of the fur trade economy, the establishment of Canadian sovereignty, the signing of treaties, the creation of First Nations reserves, and the transformation of the landscape into an agricultural west. A keen observer, Doucet recorded significant ethnographic, geographic, genealogical, faunal, floral, and meteorological details and events.

This book is a fibre artist's dream! It makes it easy to dye your own fabric and yarn with plants you will find in your own back yard.

Author: Carol Snyder

In 1899, the Counterfeit Circulation Company Limited is formed to forge Canadian $2.00 notes in Boston, Massachusetts and transport them to Nova Scotia for distribution. In Halifax, Laura Davis begins her litany to her daughters to never marry an Englishman, as a result of her husband Lewis' complicity in the counterfeiting scheme and his affair with another woman. Drawn into the illegal enterprise by his financial and marital difficulties, Lewis William Davis finds himself as the principal of the Boston group formed to print the 1897 Canadian banknotes. Using the daily notes of United States Secret Service agent Owen Owen, which were uncovered by the popular television show Ancestors in the Attic, as well as newspaper accounts of that time period, "Never Marry an Englishman" tells the story of Lewis William Davis' attempt to become richer from his counterfeiting skills and of agent Owen Owen's attempt to capture him.

Author: Rob Milson

This beautiful collection of 5" x7" unfinished pastel portrait sketches by Nicholas de Grandmaison give colourful insight into the famous Canadian artist's creative process. Nicholas de Grandmaison lived most of his life in Calgary and Banff, and his work remains a permanent part of Canadian art history.

"Old Strathcona: Edmonton's Southside Roots" by Monto is an extensively researched chronological history of southside Edmonton, once the separate city of Strathcona, from its start as a scattering of Metis/Indian pioneer cabins in the 1870s to a bustling commercial/industrial/residential section of the City of Edmonton prior to the downturn of the 1930s. Bound together with "Metis Strathcona" by Lawrence, a ground-breaking essay on the roots of Strathcona, which delineates the Metis identity of many of its earliest pioneers and the Metis pioneers' connection with the area's Papaschase First Nations, which was subsequently thoroughly dispossessed.

Author: Tom Monto

Fort George and Buckingham House and the early fur trade on the North Saskatchewan River, 1792 to 1800.

Through meticulous research and careful historiographical analysis, historians Douglas Babcock and Michael Payne paint a vivid portrait of a foundational period of social and economic interaction in Alberta s early fur trade history. While the British Crown claimed ownership and control through a charter granted to the Hudson s Bay Company over a vast territory known as Rupert s Land, in reality it was the Indigenous nations of the continent who held uncontested sovereign dominion over their ancestral lands. It wasn t until 1869 that these territories were absorbed into Canada after which treaties were fashioned, and western provinces established.

Author: Douglas R. Babcock with Michael Payne

After the terrible poison gas attack in the Ypres Salient in April 1915, Canadian medical officer John McCrae made a plea to his nation in his poem, "In Flanders Fields", to hold the torch from fallen hands and take up Our Quarrel with the Foe.

Inspired by McCrae's words, author Ian Edwards, a historian with The Loyal Edmonton Regiment Military Museum, dives into the early story of the Edmonton area Canadian Militia and its preparation to stop the aggression of the Central Powers of Europe. He follows the new Edmonton units, cavalry and infantry, as they came together as comrades within their own unique battalions or regiments of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Edwards reveals their difficulties and successes with recruiting volunteers, mastering command and control, and adapting to new tactical skills, weapons, uniforms, and equipment. Most Edmonton region units were only to be broken up in England, parcelled out as replacements for the fallen Albertans. While other units supplied timber or laid rail lines to permit Allied Powers advances, medics from Edmonton collected and dressed the wounded soldiers of the infantry at the front line.

The Canadian Corps suffered atrocious losses at Ypres, the Somme, Vimy, Passchendaele, and the highly successful but costly Final 100 Days Offensive in 1918. The Alberta units, with high proportions of Northern and Central Albertans, had triumphs and failures. The gallantry of individual soldiers and unit battle honours paints the picture of their heroism while taking up the quarrel in the First World War.

Author: Ian Edwards

These oversized binders will fit most standard and oversize preservers. The archival binders are completely covered in a durable buckram material with an acid and lignin-free white lining.

These lanyards have a metal lobster clip, quick release clip and break-away clasp. Available in green, blue, pink or orange.

Pen-touch metallic ink pens are great archival quality pens. They are chemically stable, waterproof, and fade resistant.

They permanently adherence to most surfaces, and they write on glass, wood, porcelain, plastic, paper and metal.

These pens are not to be used on original documents or photos.

Pen-touch metallic ink pens are great archival quality pens. They are chemically stable, waterproof, and fade resistant.

They permanently adherence to most surfaces, and they write on glass, wood, porcelain, plastic, paper and metal.  

These pens are not to be used on original documents or photos.

These envelopes are buffered with 3% calcium carbonate to help counteract migrant acidity. Perfect for storing nitrate and acetate negatives and newspaper clippings. Cellulose fibres such as cotton, flax, linen and jute, as well as plant-based specimens, can be stored in buffered material.

These envelopes are buffered with 3% calcium carbonate to help counteract migrant acidity. Perfect for storing nitrate and acetate negatives and newspaper clippings. Cellulose fibres such as cotton, flax, linen and jute, as well plant-based specimens, can be stored in buffered material.

These envelopes are lignin free with an approximate pH of 7.0 and a high alpha cellulose content. Perfect for storing any prints and color negatives. Any artifacts that contain animal proteins are best stored in unbuffered material.

These envelopes are lignin free with an approximate pH of 7.0 and a high alpha cellulose content. Perfect for storing any prints and color negatives. Any artifacts that contain animal proteins are best stored in unbuffered material.

These envelopes are buffered with 3% calcium carbonate to help counteract migrant acidity. Perfect for storing nitrate and acetate negatives and newspaper clippings. Cellulose fibers such as cotton, flax, linen and jute, as well plant-based specimens, can be stored in buffered material.

These envelopes are buffered with 3% calcium carbonate to help counteract migrant acidity. Perfect for storing nitrate and acetate negatives and newspaper clippings. Cellulose fibers such as cotton, flax, linen and jute, as well plant-based specimens, can be stored in buffered material.

These envelopes are lignin free with an approximate pH of 7.0 and a high alpha cellulose content. Perfect for storing any prints and color negatives. Any artifacts that contain animal proteins are best stored in unbuffered material.

These envelopes are lignin free with an approximate pH of 7.0 and a high alpha cellulose content. Perfect for storing any prints and color negatives. Any artifacts that contain animal proteins are best stored in unbuffered material.

These envelopes are buffered with 3% calcium carbonate to help counteract migrant acidity. Perfect for storing nitrate and acetate negatives and newspaper clippings. Cellulose fibers such as cotton, flax, linen and jute, as well plant-based specimens, can be stored in buffered material.