Extractions: Canadian History Collection Wallace and Madeline Chung Doukhobor Collection Howay-Reid Collection Thomas Murray ... A.J.T. Taylor Wallace and Madeline Chung Dr. Wallace Chung assembled an extensive research collection of more than 25,000 items on the exploration of the Pacific Northwest, the Chinese experience in North America and British Columbia, and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company including its trans-Pacific and coastwise shipping lines. Dr. Chung is an expert collector and includes manuscript material and realia as well as the expected printed material in his collecting lexicon. A small portion of the collection is exhibited in the Chung Room in the Main Library. Website: http://www.library.ubc.ca/chung/main.html Inventory: http://chung.library.ubc.ca/chung/index.cfm Doukhobor Collection A collection of materials on the sects origins in Europe and Russia, its religion and philosophy, migration from Russia and settlement in Canada and subsequent developments. Inventory: Howay-Reid Collection The private libraries of British Columbia Judge Frederic William Howay (1867-1943) and Dr. Robie Lewis Reid (1866-1945) formed the nucleus of Rare Books and Special Collections when they were donated in 1943 and 1945, respectively. The emphasis of the collection is on the history of British Columbia in its printed form. Other subjects covered include the history of the Pacific Northwest (including Alaska, Washington, and Oregon), and the history of the Prairie Provinces, the fur trade, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Maritime Provinces. The Collection is strong in first and later editions of important voyages and travel accounts and complete runs of major journals. It also includes samples of early printing of Western Canada, selected works from modern private presses of Western Canada, pamphlets, photographs, and rare ephemera. See also: HowayReid Canadian Literature Collection under Canadian Literature, Howay-Reid Map Collection.
Lecture #3 For A Course In Canadian Economic Development In the 1960s those writing Canadian history abandoned both the staples orientation of the building of the railways was not a major cause of the great http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~echist/lec3.htm
Extractions: This lecture builds on Topic I, Part C in the printed Guide. Please read that material first. CLICK HERE for the PowerPoint/Real Audio presentation of this lecture. Much of the preceding lecture was concerned with "theory". Here we will look at "history". Induction Deduction "History" is necessarily something we "make" or invent. Since writing history is never a "once-and-for all" activity, the past is continuously reinvented. Economic history is a specialized branch of general history. Until the 1950s the methods used in writing economic history were the same as those used in writing political, constitutional, or general history, although economic historians may have tended to make greater use of theory (deductive methods) than other historians who relied more on inductive approaches. father of modern documentary history rigorous scrutiny, analysis and verification of the evidence
