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Finding Directions West - Readings that Locate and Dislocate Western Canadaas Past (Paperback)
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Finding Directions West - Readings that Locate and Dislocate Western Canadaas Past (Paperback)
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In the past, Western Canada was a place of new directions in human
thought and action, migrations of the mind and body, and personal
journeys. This book anthology brings together studies exploring the
way the west served as a place of constant movement between places
of spiritual, subsistence and aesthetic importance. The region, it
would seem, gained its very life in the movement of its people.
Finding Directions West: Readings that Locate and Dislocate Western
Canada's Past, showcases new Western Canadian research on the
places found and inhabited by indigenous people and newcomers, as
well as their strategies to situate themselves, move on to new
homes or change their environments to recreate the West in
profoundly different ways. These studies range from the way
indigenous people found representation in museum displays, to the
archival home newcomers found for themselves: how, for instance,
the LGBT community found a place, or not, in the historical record
itself. Other studies examine the means by which MA (c)tis
communities, finding the west transforming around them, turned to
grassroots narratives and historical preservation in order to
produce what is now appreciated as vernacular histories of
inestimable value. In another study, the issues confronted by the
Stoney Nakoda who found their home territory rapidly changing in
the treaty and reserve era is examined: how Stoney connections to
Indian agents and missionaries allowed them to pursue long-distance
subsistence strategies into the pioneer era. The anthology includes
an analysis of a lengthy travel diary of an English visitor to
Depression-era Alberta, revealing how she perceived the region in a
short government-sponsored inquiry. Other studies examine the ways
women, themselves newcomers in pioneering society, evaluated new
immigrants to the region and sought to extend, or not, the vote to
them; and the ways early suffrage activists in Alberta and England
by World War I developed key ideas when they cooperated in
publicity work in Western Canada. Finding Directions West also
includes a study on ranchers and how they initially sought to
circumscribe their practices around large landholdings in periods
of drought, to the architectural designs imported to places such as
the Banff Centre that defied the natural geography of the Rocky
Mountains. Too often, Western Canadian history is understood as a
fixed, precisely mapped and authoritatively documented place. This
anthology prompts readers to think differently about a region where
ideas, people and communities were in a constant but energetic
flux, and how newcomers converged into sometimes impermanent homes
or moved on to new experiences to leave a significant legacy for
the present-day.
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