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This lavish and unique five-volume photograph album records a hunting trip to the Canadian Rockies in 1916-17. Each photograph in the album is hand-tinted with watercolours and mounted on its own page. The album's large and heavy pages provide a…

This reader, employed as a textbook in Alberta schools in the 1920s (“Alberta School”), creatively approaches geography lessons through the accessible medium of food. The author, James Chamberlain, writes, “The natural connecting…

Chinaka addresses readers worrying about all-important examinations. His self-help pamphlet, How to Study and Pass Examinations, shows that exams are not straightforward--the brightest students may score the worst and the dullest may score best.…

Tobacco gets its own chapter in this reader, part of a series on “the great industries of the world.” This copy was once in the library at the Camrose Provincial Normal School. The book’s treatment of ethnicity and cultural…

A number of Cree gather on horseback, all wearing brimmed hats, at Hobbema during the Sun Dance.

A horse and rider, stuck in the soft mud of the riverbank in an attempt to ford the Salt River in the Northwest Territories. The photo captures the motion blur where the distressed horse is thrashing its head. This image is also represented among…

Hoofs, Claws and Antlers of the Rocky Mountains by the Camera documents a trip through the Rocky Mountains, with an emphasis on the animals encountered (and hunted) along the way. The publication provides a good example of an early use of the…