Lougheed House offered the perfect venue to launch Doris MacKinnon‘s newest book, Metis Pioneers as it was the home of one of the two women whose lives are described in the book: Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed. Both Isabella and the second woman in the study, Marie Rose Delorme Smith, were born in 1861. They experienced […]
Category: Events
Dr. Colleen Skidmore—author of Searching for Mary Schäffer: Women Wilderness Photography—gave a talk about the subject of her new book at the University of Alberta’s Mountain Festival on December 7, 2017. The event was hosted by Dr. PearlAnn Reichwein, author of the award-winning Climber’s Paradise. Mary Schäffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, […]
Co-Editor Shirley A. McDonald and contributor Jennifer Koshan, along with MLA Dr. David Swann, organized an event to honour the many faceless/invisible/unrecognized workers whose labour puts food on our tables. A celebration of Farm Workers’ Day and the launching of Farm Workers in Western Canada: Injustices and Activism in Calgary on August 21 exceeded their expectations. Even before the […]