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Tutorial Outline

This tutorial has more than 180 files organized into 14 chapters. It is recommended that the student read through the entire tutorial by starting on the INTRODUCTION and following the material in the order that it is presented. The student can also select chapters for review by simply clicking on the image like the one found at the top of this page. This image is found at the start of each new chapter.

Every chapter has three kinds of links. There are links that follow a paragraph and are preceded by a red dot or a yellow dot. The red dot signifies a mandatory link containing text that is integral to the tutorial. The yellow dot represents a link to an external site and it is optional. If you choose to view the external site, return to this tutorial by simply clicking on your brower's BACK button. There are underlined links found within the paragraph (below, these links are marked by a —). These links provide additional, or more detailed, information.

The outline, below, represents the chapters and units as they will appear if you follow the tutorial from beginning to end. Each chapter corresponds to the breaks in the burgundy line along the left. To review specific units in the tutorial, access the material using the chapter image found on the first page of each chapter, or use the outline below. Please note that from this list, only the main chapters (grey dots) will open the accompanying timeline.

 

 

 

 

Introduction (introbody.html)
The Climate and Physical Landscape (landscape.html)
Images of the West (imagewest.html)
Rupert's Land (rupert.html)
John Palliser, Henry Youle Hind and Simon Dawson (palliser.html)
Palliser's Triangle (triangle.html)
Prairie Climate (climate.html)
The West: A Note on Terminology (termin.html)

 

 

 

Bison Economy (bisoneconomy.html)
Earliest Known Residents (earliest.html)
Distinctive Lifestyles (distinctive.html)
The Story Behind the Bones (storybones.html)
Example of a Butchering Analysis from an Archaeological Site (butcher.html)
How to Make a Stone Tool: Flintknapping (stonetool.html)
Weapons and Other Tools Used in Pre-European Contact Times (weapons.html)
Communal Bison Drives (bisondrives.html)
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Interpretive Centre http://www.head-smashed-in.com/
The Bison in Mythology and Religious Ritual (mythology.html)
Legend of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (Legend.html)
Aboriginal Lands in Southern Alberta at the Time of European Contact (aborlands.html)
Identifying Southern Alberta's Indigenous Peoples in Pre-Contact Times (identify.html)
The First Contact with Europeans (firstcontact.html)
Anthony Henday (henday.html)
The Horse (horse.html)
Bison Hunting Techniques (bisonhunt.html)
Disastrous Consequences (disaster.html)

 

 

 

Kootisaw: Calgary before 1875 (kootisaw.html)
Alberta's First Nations: A Note on Terminology (nativeterm.html)
Bison Hunting in Fish Creek Park (fishcreek.html)
Nosehill Park (nosehill.html)
Identifying Southern Alberta's Indigenous Peoples in Pre-Contact Times (precontact.html)
Missionaries: Precursors to Settlement (Missions.html)
Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site: "The Early Trading Posts" http://parkscanada.pch.gc.ca/parks/alberta/Rocky_mountain_house/english/post_e.htm
Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site: "Aboriginal Peoples and The Fur Trade" http://parkscanada.pch.gc.ca/parks/alberta/Rocky_mountain_house/english/natives_e.htm
Albert Lacombe (lacombe.html)
Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Oblates.html)
Wesleyan Methodists (Methodist.html)
Anglicans (Anglican.html)
John McDougall (mcdougall.html)
"Apron-string sovereignty" Alberta Report http://www.albertareport.com/23arcopy/23a45cpy/2345ar02.htm
Constantine Scollen (scollen.html)

 

 

 

Fort Calgary: 1875-1894 (Ft1875.html)
The "Sandstone City" - Calgary's First Development (sandstone.html)
The National Policy and Historical Interpretations (natpolicy.html)
Treaty 7 (treaty7.html)
Calgary's Closest Neighbours (Aboriginal Peoples and Calgary) (aborcalgary.html)
James Farquharson Macleod (macleod.html)
Issapo'mahkikaaw (Crowfoot) (crowfoot.html)
Mi'ki ai'stowa (Red Crow) (redcrow.html)
Articles of Treaty 7 http://www.treaty7.org/info/treaty7.htm
Treaty 7 Tribal Council Home Page http://www.treaty7.org
The North-West Mounted Police (nwmp.html)
Whisky Trade (whisky.html)
Law and Order (laworder.html)
Folk Heroes (folkheroes.html)
The Police in the Development of Calgary and Southern Alberta (police.html)
The Canadian Pacific Railway (cpr.html)
The CPR and the Development of Calgary (cprcalgary.html)
Immigration and Settlement (immsettlement.html)
Promotional Campaigns (promcampaigns.html)
Dominion Land Policy (dominion.html)
The CPR as a Symbol (cprsymbol.html)

 

 

 

Ranching (ranch.html)
Security and Market (security.html)
Development of Calgary and Southern Alberta (develop.html)
Decline of Power (declinepower.html)

 

 

 

Agriculture
Irrigation (agriculture.html)
Sources of Frustration (frustration.html)
Solutions to the Problems of Dryland Farming (dryland.html)
World War II and its Consequences (ww2conseq.html)
The Farmer as Folk Hero (farmerfolk.html)

 

 

 

Frontier Town to Modern City: Calgary 1895-1946 (calgary1895.html)
Chart: Population of Calgary: 1884-1995 (popchart1.html)
Chart: Ethnic Origins of Calgary's Population: 1901-1961 (ethnicorigins.html)
Economy (frontierecon.html)
Freddie C. Lowes (lowes.html)
Southern Alberta During World War II (worldwar2.html)
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (ww2british.html)
Irrigating Southern Alberta http://collections.ic.gc.ca/arctic/prairie/irrchpt1.htm
Social and Cultural Developments (frontiersoc.html)
Prohibition (Prohibition.html)
The Reform Movement and Suffrage (suffrage.html)
Chart: Major Religious Affiliations of Calgary's Population: 1901-1961 (religiousaff.html)
Bob Edwards (edwards.html)
A.C. Leighton (leighton.html)
Glenbow: Modern / Western Canadian Art http://www.glenbow.org/arthtm/modwest.htm
Politics (frontierpoli.html)
Wesley Fletcher Orr (orr.html)
Andrew Davidson (davidson.html)
United Farmers of Alberta (ufa.html)
Henry Wise Wood (wood.html)
William Aberhart's Social Credit Party (wasoccr.html)
Historical Interpretations of Social Credit's Success in Alberta (hisocred.html)
Prime Minister R.B. Bennett (bennett.html)

 

 

 

Calgary in Transition: 1947-1970 (calgary1947.html)
Chart: Population of Calgary: 1884-1995 (popchart2.html)
Economy (1947econ.html)
Social and Cultural Developments (1947soc.html)
Eric L. Harvie (harvie.html)
Maxwell Bates (bates.html)
W.O. Mitchell (mitchell.html)
Politics (1947poli.html)
Don Mackay (mackay.html)
Ernest Manning (manning.html)

 

 

 

Calgary as a Commercial and Tourism Centre: 1971-1991 (calgary1971.html)
Chart: Population of Calgary: 1884-1995 (popchart3.html)
Economy (1971econ.html)
Atco (atco.html)
Chart: Building Permits Issued in Calgary: 1907-1968 (permits.html)
Social and Cultural Developments (1971soc.html)
Aritha van Herk (vanherk.html)
Nicole Markotic (markotic.html)
Suzette Mayr (mayr.html)
Rajinderpal S. Pal (pal.html)
W.P. Kinsella (kinsella.html)
Grant MacEwan (macewan.html)
Hugh Dempsey (dempsey.html)

Politics (1971poli.html)
Peter Lougheed's Progressive Conservative Party (lougheed.html)
Ralph Klein (klein.html)

 

 

 

The Oil and Gas Frontier: 1913-Present (oil.html)
Map: Oil Beneath the Field's Gas Wells (oilgas.html)
The Turner Valley Oil Era: 1913-1946 (turnervalley.html)
William Steward Herron (herron.html)
Post-Leduc Oil and Gas Exploration and Development (leduc.html)
Chart: Alberta's Population (albertapop.html)
Pipelines (pipelines.html)
The Energy Crisis and Constitutional Debates Between Alberta and the Federal Government (energycrisis.html)

 

 

 

Economic Diversification: Tourism (tourism.html)
Park System (parksys.html)
Film and Television Productions (movie.html)
Celebrated Ranches (celebranches.html)
Calgary Exhibition and Stampede (stampede.html)
Calgary's Western Image (calgaryimage.html)
Alberta Dinosaurs (dino.html)
Brian Cooley: Dinosaur Model Maker (cooley.html)
Dinosaur Provincial Park (dinopark.html)
Badlands (badlands.html)

 

 

 

Ethnicity: A Province of Immigrants: The Face of Prejudice (race.html)
Chart: Alberta's Changing Population (albertapop2.html)
The "Ethnic Pecking Order" (pecking.html)
Mormon Settlement (mormon.html)
Calgary's German Community (german.html)
Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites (douk.html)
Japanese Settlement (japan.html)
Japanese Timeline (japantime.html)
Black Immigrants (black.html)
Calgary's Chinese Community (chinese.html)
The National Association of Canada and the Ku Klux Klan (kuklux.html)
The Jewish Community (jewish.html)
Ethnic Relations During World War II (ww2ethnic.html)
The Peopling of Canada: 1891-1921 canada1891/index.html
The Peopling of Canada: 1946-1976 canada1946/index.html

 

 

 

Labour (labour.html)
Working Conditions (labourconditions.html)
Coal Fields / Coal Mining (coalmines.html)
Coal Mining in Lethbridge http://collections.ic.gc.ca/arctic/prairie/michpt1.htm
Early Union Organisation (labourunion.html)
Knights of Labour (knights.html)
Labour Agitation in the Inter-War Period (labouragitation.html)
On-to-Ottawa Trek (onottawa.html)
Labour Since 1935 (labour1935.html)

 

 

 

Women (women.html)
Herstory: An Exhibition http://library.usask.ca/herstory/index.html
Women's Experiences in the Pre-World War I Period (womenexp.html)
The Reform Movement and Suffrage (reformsuf.html)
Chart: Calgary's Gender Imbalance: 1891-1971 (gender.html)
Prostitution (prostitution.html)
Louise Crummy McKinney (mckinney.html)
Henrietta Muir Edwards (edwards.html)
Alice Jamieson (jamieson.html)
Historical Debates: Suffrage and Reform (womendebate.html)
Women in the 1920s (women20.html)
Amelia Turner (turner.html)
Nellie McClung (mcclung.html)
The "Persons" Case http://library.usask.ca/herstory/person.html
The Social Credit Era: 1935-1971 (womensocialcredit.html)
Edith Rogers (rogers.html)
Time of Change: The 1960s to the Present (women60.html)
Royal Commission on the Status of Women (royalcom.html)


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