Canadian Prairies (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael K. Lewis.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Prior to the construction of bridges, the most common and safest method to cross the rivers in the Canadian prairies was to be ferried a crossed, due to the severe and dangerous currents within the rivers. These ferries were locally manufactured to no standard plan, with the knowledge that the ferries would have a limited useful...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily L. Haines.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From the early nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century, the settlement that would become the Canadian city of Edmonton, Alberta, was composed primarily of an historical era Indigenous people called the Métis. Despite their history and enduring presence in Edmonton, the Métis are positioned as peripheral in narratives of Edmonton’s development from historical and archaeological...