A century ago Canada West magazine beat the drums for immigrants to fill the vast unbroken prairie. But those drums beat louder in some places than others.
Madeline Knickerbocker's presentation “Ilhtsel t’áméx te’í:lé kw’els ílh stl’ítl’qelh”: Stó:lō Weavers and Settler Anthropology in the 1960s” from the Beyond 150: Telling Our Stories Twitter Conference held in August 2017.
In this lesson students will research immigrant experiences in early Canada and then compare their “Terra” experiences to those of real life immigrants.
Book Review: Historian Warren Elofson compares late nineteenth-century cattle frontiers in Western Canada and northern Australia. There are many physical similarities between the regions, but Elofson goes beyond discussions of the environment to produce a social history including the raucous culture that develops when there is gender imbalance.
