Artifacts from the CCFCS collections

Artifacts from the CCFCS collections
Author: Philip V. R. Tilney
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 70
Release: 1973-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1772823155

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This sampling of artifacts from the collections of the Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies represents twenty-three traditional societies. Not exhaustive, it is a combination of photographs and general remarks to illustrate which types of artifacts have particular relevance to the contemporary Canadian folk culture complex.

Algonquins

Algonquins
Author: Daniel Clément
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822949

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First published in French in Recherches amérindiennes au Québec in 1993, this collection of essays aims to provide a better understanding of the Algonquin people. The nine contributors to the book deal with topics ranging from prehistory, historical narratives, social organization and land use to mythology and legends, beliefs, material culture and the conditions of contemporary life. A thematic bibliography completes the volume.

Sheguiandah Site

Sheguiandah Site
Author: Patrick J. Julig
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772821551

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First excavated in the early 1950s, the Sheguiandah site had remained enigmatic for half a century. This volume details controversial early claims that the site had been occupied before the last Ice Age, then covers more recent studies of the geological and botanical history of the area – including new evidence that the site was uninhabited until after the retreat of the glaciers.

Clifton Royal

Clifton Royal
Author: Judith Baxter
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1772824151

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Through diaries and other records, this new book provides a fascinating look at farming life in nineteenth-century New Brunswick. Journal entries cover the years 1870 to 1879; shop records begin in 1864 and include detailed client lists.

Micmac texts

Micmac texts
Author: Albert D. DeBlois
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822817

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This collection of Micmac texts includes an oral history of the arrival of the first Europeans on the shores of Cape Breton, a ghost story and a tale of the hero Gluscap.

More than words

More than words
Author: John Willis
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1772824372

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More Than Words features the work of more than twenty scholars from Canada and abroad on post-related topics. Drawing on recent trends in social and cultural history, these new essays address the history and importance of the post from such perspectives as infrastructure, technology, nation-building and interpersonal communications.

Acaoohkiwina and Acimowina

Acaoohkiwina and Acimowina
Author: Robert A. Brightman
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822779

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Narratives from different genres of Rock Cree oral literature in northwestern Manitoba, together with interpretive and comparative commentary are presented.

Passion for the Past

Passion for the Past
Author: James Vallière Wright
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772821578

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A Passion for the Past celebrates the late archaeologist James F. Pendergast. The book includes twenty-two essays on subjects ranging from archaeological ethnicity to Native perspectives on archaeology, and features several texts on the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, a subject dear to Pendergast’s heart.

Under the northern lights

Under the northern lights
Author: Nelma Sillanpaa
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1772824070

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What was it like for young immigrant girls growing up in the lumber camps and mining towns of northern Ontario in the 1920s? How did teenagers in Canada cope with the Great Depression of the “Dirty Thirties”? What did young women on the home front do during World War II while their menfolk were overseas with the Canadian Forces? This autobiography shows us what ordinary life has been like for many women in Canada over the last 75 years, and it illuminates a largely unknown chapter of Canada’s diverse multicultural heritage.

Revelations

Revelations
Author: Robert B. Klymasz
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1772823694

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In recognition of the year 2000 and its significance for the Christian world, religion provides the common thread that binds together the book’s variety of subject matter, concerns and methodologies. This compilation of eleven papers focuses on politics, museums, religion and war; reports and surveys; as well as research based on the collections.