Volume One
Acknowledgements
Introduction
13001 Years Ago: Human Beginnings in Alberta
John W Ives
The Day the Dry Snow Fell: The Record of a 7, 627-year-old Disaster
Alwynne B. Beaudoin and Gerald A. Oetelaar
Buffalo and Dogs: The Prehistoric Lifeways of Aboriginal People on the Alberta Plains, 1004-1005
Trevor Peck and J. Rod Vickers
The Never-Ending Journey of Anthony Henday
Eldon Yellowhorn
"With Tears, Shrieks and Howlings of Despair": The Smallpox Expidemic of 1781-1782
Ted Binnema
Fatal Quarrels and Fur Trade Rivalries: A Year of Living Dangerously on the North Saskatchewan 1806-7
Gerhard J. Ens
"Economy Must Now Be the Order of the Day": George Simpson and the Reorganization of the Fur Trade to 1826
Heather Devine
"On the Edge of the Great Transformation 1857-58
Frits Pannekoek
&1879: A Year of Violence and Change
Hugh A. Dempsey
"A Better Life with Honour": Treaty 6 (1876) and Treaty 7 (1877) with Alberta First Nations
Sarah Carter and Walter Hildebrandt
Too Many Sacred People: Alberta and the 1885 North-West Rebellion
Bill Waiser
1899 and the Political Economy of Canada?s North-West: Treaty 8 as Compact to
Share and Peacefully Co-Exist
Brain Calliou
1904-1905: Alberta Proclaimed
David Hall
Contributors
Volume Two
The Dance of the Grizzly Bear: Boom to Bust, 1912-13
David C. Jones
Enthusiasm to Embattled: 1916 and the Great War
Duff Crerar
1919: "A year of Extraordinary Delight"
David Bright
From Idealism to Pragmatism: 1923 in Alberta
Bradford J. Rennie
1929: "Things Are Seldom What They Seem"
Donald B. Smith
1935: The Social Credit Revolution
Alvin Finkel
1945: Ghosts and Dreams
Patricia Myers
1947: The Making of Modern Alberta
David Breen
1951-Celebrating Together, Celebrating Apart: Albertans and their Golden Jubilee
Frances Swyripa
1967: Embracing the Future . . . At Arm?s Length
Max Foran
Alberta?s Quiet Revolution: 1973 and the Early Lougheed Years
James H. Marsh
1980: Duel of the Decade
Tammy Nemeth
1986: The Bloom Comes Off the Wild Rose Province
Herb Emery
1996-Two Albertas: Rural and Urban Trajectories
Roger Epp
Looking Back on Alberta History: Reflections in a Rear-View Mirror
Michael Payne, Donald Wetherell, and Catherine Cavanaugh
Contributors
Index