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2009 Publications

Painting the Past with a Broad Brush: Papers in Honour of James Valliere Wright

For over 50 years, J. V. Wright was a ground-breaking leader and inspiring mentor for the Canadian archaeological profession.

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Profit and Ambition: The Canadian Fur Trade, 1779–1821

Re-live the heroic days of the Canadian fur trade, a period of a little more than forty years when a group of Montréal traders pushed the limits of European exploration and commerce west from Lake Winnipeg to the Pacific Ocean and north to the Arctic.

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Charlottetown: A History

Charlottetown is a unique community. It’s the smallest provincial capital in Canada, but it’s also one of the oldest. For more than a century, it was the only city on a predominantly rural Prince Edward Island.

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Family Origin Histories. The Whaling Indians. West Coast Legends and Stories. Part 11 of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka Texts.

The “family histories” of the Nuu-chah-nulth of Canada’s West Coast tell about the origins of tribal families. This Mercury publication of the Canadian Museum of Civilization presents 18 of these histories, each belonging to a family that had the exclusive right to tell it in a public ceremony.

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