A poem or piece of prose describing the life of a soldier. The narrator is made a soldier against his will, and notes that the only thing separating the soldiers are the different colours of the uniform and the commanding tyrant. It ends with a...
A sketch of a steamboat, possibly the Northcote, coming under Metis fire during the Northwest Resistance. The title is apparently erroneous as there was only one relief expedition to Battleford and it neither came under fire or involved river...
In this study an attempt is made to outline the most important ways in which the Canadian agricultural economy adjusted to changing patterns of domestic and export demand during the Second World War. At the end of a decade of depression, the...
Abstract:
Like most western towns and villages, the town of Rosetown grew out of the surrounding community. In most aspects of its life there was nothing unusual. It started late, mushroomed quickly and passed through the usual vicissitudes of...
Abstract
Agricultural development has not proceeded smoothly or regularly. Rather it has been characteritzed by varying rates of growth and by divergent characteristics of its development as exemplified by the periods of expansion, World War...
This study deals with the fur trade of the Province of Saskatchewan, and more particularly the northern part of the province, in the period since the Second World War. Great changes have occurred in the demand for, and supply of, furs during this...
To an uncommon degree the history of the Battlefords reflects the major forces which shaped Western Canadian development prior to World War I. In pre-white times the ford near the mouth of the Battle River was the tribal feuding grounds of Cree and...
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In the autumn of 1918 a deadly pandemic swept the world. The so-called "Spanish" influenza epidemic, and its most deadly side-effect, pneumonia, killed between 50 and 100 million people worldwide.
The epidemic created havoc in...
Alexander Campbell served as a sergeant with the 7th Fusiliers, a battalion of militia which was headquartered in London, Ontario. This unit was called into active service on 1 April 1885 and, within a week, had embarked on their journey west -- a...
Includes Dr. Michael Lavell's report on Louis Riel's sanity based on interviews with him in his Regina jail cell in November 1885. Also includes a letter from Sir John A. Macdonald to Dr. Lavell outlining the purpose of his commission. From Douglas...
It has been accepted in the historical discourse that a direct link existed between the participation of Aboriginal people in the Second World War and a new political consciousness of Aboriginal people in Canada generally, and Saskatchewan...
Correspondence re: a request for Evans to investigate pensions
paid to the RCMP, a partial list of RCMP pensioners showing discrepancies
in pensions paid, investigation of pensions paid to soldier settlers
of the Ruddell municipality, pensions...
"Letters Home is about becoming a fighter pilot, and not about fighting" - from preface. Letters Home includes corresondence between John E.Gardiner and his family from the years 1940-42, as well as his diary.
"this non-fictional story was written during the youthful 1944 ... written then on the eve of a journey to war in Europe ... written with a essimistic desperation that if I would not return, my buddies at Pennfield Ridge adn the people back home...
(Scope and content) "This book tells the stories of Indian veterans who fought in the First and Second World Wars and in Korea. these stories are told in the veterans own works." - from introductory remarks from G. Ahenakew
