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Literary scholar Stephanie L. Hawkins explains that, “as one of the world’s most widely recognized distributors of global images, National Geographic has filled an important role in what Arjun Appadurai has termed the global mediascape” by…

Acquired in honour of Dr Robert Foster

The boys' dormitory of the Catholic mission at Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories.

Rita Martin was invented in 1938 as a corporate character for Robin Hood flour, which by the time of this book’s publication was milled in Calgary, Moose Jaw, Saskatoon, and Humberstone, Ontario. With a name equally pronounceable in English and…

As immigration to the Prairies exploded in the first decade of the twentieth century, railway companies like the CPR, CNR, and Grand Trunk Pacific competed to bring prospective farmers to Western Canada. This brochure, cleverly shaped like a…