Mercury Series

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Pier 21

Between 1928 and 1971, nearly one million immigrants landed in Canada at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During those years, it was one of the main ocean immigration facilities in Canada, including when ...

Around and About Marius Barbeau

Marius Barbeau (1883?969) played a vital role in shaping Canadian culture in the twentieth century. Around and About Marius Barbeau: Modelling Twentieth-Century Culture extends discussion about Barbeau ...

Crafting New Traditions

Edited by Melanie Egan, Alan C. Elder & Jean Johnson
Categories: Art
Series: Mercury Series

Crafting New Traditions: Canadian Innovators and Influences brings together the work of 11 historians and craftspeople to address the two questions of ?ho has influenced the recent history of Canadian ...

Through Darkening Spectacles

By (author) Diamond Jenness & Stuart E. Jenness
Categories: History
Series: Mercury Series

Diamond Jenness was one of the most outstanding Canadian anthropologists of the early twentieth century. Now, details about the private life of this dedicated scholar are revealed in his own words augmented ...

Subsistence and Culture in the Western Canadian Arctic

By (author) Matthew W. Betts
Categories: Social Science
Series: Mercury Series

The Siglit, or Mackenzie Inuit, the ancestors of the modern Inuvialuit, were, at the time of Euroamerican contact, the most populous and complex Inuit society in the Canadian Arctic. Through innovative ...