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Unit 1—The Big Picture: Perspectives on Heritage Research and the Public

Moody, Jessica. “Heritage and History.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research, edited by Emma Waterton and Steve Watson, 113–29. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillian, 2015.
Seixas, Peter. “History and Heritage: What’s the Difference?” Canadian Issues (Fall 2014): 12–16.
Unruh, Leanne. “Dialogical Curating: Towards Aboriginal Self-Representation in Museums.” Curator The Museum Journal 58, no. 1 (January 2015): 77–89.
Harris, Leslie M. “Imperfect Archives and the Historical Imagination.” The Public Historian 36, no. 1 (February 2014): 77–80.
Mullally, Sasha. “Democratizing the Past? Canada’s History on the World Wide Web.” In Settling and Unsettling Memories: Essays in Canadian Public History, edited by Nicole Neatby and Peter Hodgins, 235–64. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza, Seville, Spain. Judy Larmour.

Unit 2—Planning Heritage Research and Finding and Accessing Documentary Sources

Kean, Hilda. “London Stories. Personal Lives, Public History.” In The Public History Reader, edited by Hilda Keen and Paul Martin, 173–92. London and New York: Routledge, 2013.
Vintoniv, Khrystyna. “The Ukrainian Documentary Heritage in Canadian Virtual Space: Digital Exhibitions, Encyclopedias and Databases,” European Researcher 59, no. 9 (2013): 2278–83.
Alves, Daniel. “Introduction: Digital Methods and Tools for Historical Research.” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 8, 1 (2014): 1–12.

Unit 3—Documentary Sources: Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Text Records and Secondary Published Sources

Rael, Patrick. “How to Read a Primary Source.” In Reading, Writing, and Researching for History: A Guide for College Students. Bowdoin College, 2004.
“R. N. W. M. Police. Canmore Alta., Crime Report.” GR1966.0166/995, Attorney General Department, Alberta Provincial Police, General Administration Files, Correspondence, May 19–21, 1909. Provincial Archives of Alberta.
Diary of Fred Seibert, Diary number 14118, DLS, 11-23 May, 1914. Provincial Archives of Alberta.
Fred Seibert to [Edouard Deville] Edmonton, Dec. 6th, 1914 (letter), 1985.0034/1559, Department of Energy and Natural Resources, Bureau of Surveying and Mapping. Provincial Archives of Alberta.
Mitchell, Elizabeth. “Going to the Country” (excerpt). In Western Canada before the War: Impressions of Early Twentieth Century Prairie Communities (1915), 13–18. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1981.
Cameron, Agnes Deans. “Chapter V: Ninety Miles of Rapids.” In The New North: An Account of a Woman’s 1908 Journey through Canada to the Arctic. 1909.

Please scroll down to begin reading at Chapter V.
Diary of Robert Henry Robertson. Glenbow Archives M 9145: Page 21.
Diary of Robert Henry Robertson. Glenbow Archives M 9145: Page 22.
Diary of Robert Henry Robertson. Glenbow Archives M 9145: Page 23.
Letters of Dr. Mary Percy Jackson, Archives Society of Alberta, Alberta InWord: July 21, 1929. Page 1.
Letters of Dr. Mary Percy Jackson, Archives Society of Alberta, Alberta InWord: July 21, 1929. Page 2.
Letters of Dr. Mary Percy Jackson, Archives Society of Alberta, Alberta InWord: November 21, 1929. Page 1.
Letters of Dr. Mary Percy Jackson, Archives Society of Alberta, Alberta InWord: November 21, 1929. Page 2.
Letters of Dr. Mary Percy Jackson, Archives Society of Alberta, Alberta InWord: February 25, 1930. Page 1.
Letters of Dr. Mary Percy Jackson, Archives Society of Alberta, Alberta InWord: February 25, 1930. Page 2.
Forget, Amedee Emmanuel. “Chapter 28 An Ordinance Respecting Fences, [Assented to November 21, 1903].” Ordinances of the North-west Territories Passed in the Second Session of the Fifth Legislative Assembly. Regina, 1903.
Front Page. The Sedgewick Sentinel, March 17, 1910.

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Editorial Page. The Sedgewick Sentinel, March 17, 1910.

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Sample Page. The Sedgewick Sentinel, March 24, 1910.

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Statistics Canada. “Wages and Hours of Labour by Selected Trades in Selected Cities of Canada, 1927.”
Statistics Canada. “Average Wages per Hour for Specified Occupations in Certain Cities, 1945."
Langille, Edward. “The Trials of Lillian Burke.” Material Culture Review 76, (Fall 2012)/Revue de la culture matérielle 76 (automne 2012): 73–81.

Unit 4—Documentary Sources: Examining Pictorial Records

Jordanova, Ludmilla. “Approaching Visual Materials.” In Research Methods for History, edited by Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire, 30–47. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
Carter, John E. “The Trained Eye: Photographs and Historical Context.” Public Historian 15, no. 1 (1993): 55–66.
Tinkler, Penny. “Studying Found Photographs.” In Using Photographs in Social and Historical Research, 33–60. Los Angeles, London: SAGE, 2013.
Sandweiss, Martha. “Image and Artifact: The Photograph as Evidence in the Digital Age.” The Journal of American History 94, no. 1 (June 2007): 193–202.
Brégent-Heald, Dominique. “All Aboard! Travel Films, Railroads, and the North American West, 1897–1910.” American Review of Canadian Studies 45, no. 1 (2015): 8–25.
Myers, Patricia. The Iconography of Cookbooks: A Cultural Window. Athabasca University, 2008.

"Cameramen filming at Native scene at Fort Macleod, Alberta.", 1920, (CU1107603) by Unknown. Courtesy of Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.

Unit 5—Oral History: Research Method and Documentary Source

Raleigh Yow, Valerie. “Interviewing Techniques and Strategies.” In The Oral History Reader. 3rd ed., edited by Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson, 153–78. London: Routledge, 2016.
Culture, Multiculturalism and Status of Women, Government of Alberta. Oral History: Heritage Note Series, 2020.

Read sections “Types of Interview” through to the end of “Tips and Examples for Framing Questions,” pp. 13–16.
Davis, Julie. “My Oral History Roots.” The Oral History Review 29, no. 2 (Summer/Fall, 2002): 17–19.
Portelli, Alessandro. “What Makes Oral History Different.” In The Oral History Reader, edited by Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson, 63–74. London: Routledge, 2003.
Calliou, Brian. “Methodology for Recording Oral Histories in the Aboriginal Community.” In The Canadian Oral History Reader, edited by Kristina R Llewellyn, Alexander Freund, and Nolan Reilly, 25–52. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016.
Chew, Ron. “The Rise of Oral History in Museums.” Museum News (November/December, 2002): 31–37.
Rudin, Ronald. “Voices of Kouchibouguac.” Oral History Forum/Forum d’histoire orale 30 (2010): 1–2.
Toosi, Fereshteh. “Up the Creek! A Site-Specific Oral History Project.” Oral History Forum/Forum d’histoire orale 30 (2010): 1–3.

Unit 6—Material Culture: Artifact-Based Research and Source of Evidence

Dennis, Flora. “Material Culture and Sound: A Sixteenth-Century Handbell.” In Writing Material Culture History, 151–55. London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Stecher, Anne de. “Souvenir Art, Collectible Craft, Cultural Heritage: The Wendat (Huron) of Wendake, Quebec.” In Craft, Community and the Material Culture of Place and Politics, 19th– 20th Century, edited by Janice Helland, Beverly Lemire, and Alena Buis, 37–57. Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2014.
Brodie, Antonia. “Marking and Memory: An Embroidered Sheet in the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.” TEXTILE 14, no. 2 (2016): 160–75.
Martin, Ann Smart. “Lustrous Things: Luminosity and Reflection before the Light Bulb.” In Writing Material Culture History, 157–63. London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Brooks, Bradley C. “The Historic House Furnishings Plan: Process and Product.” In Interpreting Historic House Museums, edited by Jessica Foy Donnelly, 128–43. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2002.
Cole, Catherine C. “Eaton’s Winnipeg and Toronto Catalogues Compared.” Before E-commerce: A History of Canadian Mail-Order Catalogues. Virtual Museum of Canada exhibit, produced by the Canadian Museum of Civilization in 2004.
Baas, Christopher, and Darrin Rubino. “The Most Successful Press in This or Any Other Country: The Material Culture of 19th-Century Beater Hay Presses in the Mid-Ohio Valley.” Material Culture 45, no. 1 (2013): 1–20.

Unit 7—Material Culture: Archaeological Resources and Heritage Research

Deetz, James. “Recalling Things Forgotten: Archaeology and the American Artifact.” In In Small Things Forgotten: The Archaeology of Early American Life, 2–25, 165–67. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1977.
Little, Barbara J. “What Is Our Evidence?” In Historical Archaeology: Why the Past Matters, 59–64, 179, 193–98. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2007.
Sawatzky, Roland. “Blumenhof Village and the Archaeology of Social Difference.” Journal of Mennonite Studies 34 (2016): 13–38.
Symonds, James. “Historical Archaeology and the Recent Urban Past.” International Journal of Heritage Studies 10, no. 1 (March, 2004): 33–48.

Unit 8—Architectural Heritage Resources: Documenting, Researching, and Interpreting Buildings

Kalman, Harold. “The Opening of the West.” Excerpt from A Concise History of Canadian Architecture, 338–68. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2000.

To access page 338 of the text, enter the number 349 into the page-finder box at the bottom of the page. Read to the end of the section entitled “The Opening of the West” on page 368.
Ricketts, Shannon, Leslie Maitland, and Jacqueline Hucker. Excerpts from “Architecture in the Twentieth Century.” In A Guide to Canadian Architectural Styles. 2nd ed., 113–15, 117–21. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2004.
Weir, Scott. “The Picturesque Gothic Villa Comes to Town: The Emergence of Toronto’s Bay-and-Gable House Type.” Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada 41, no. 1 (2016): 57–76.
City of Calgary. How to Research Building History.
McMaster University Library. Fire Insurance Plan Legends.
Victoria’s Chinatown, Bird’s-Eye Map, 1889.
Stephen Avenue Heritage Area Society. Stephen Avenue and Area Historical Walking Tour. Alberta Community Development: Historic Sites Service, 1995.
Hohol’, Demjan. Excerpt from “Later Changes (1930-1945).” The Grekul House: A Land Use and Structural History, 135–39, 156–57. Alberta Culture Historic Sites Service, Occasional Paper No. 14, March 1985.

Unit 9—The Resources of Place: Researching and Interpreting Landscapes

Bocking, Stephen, and Barbara Znamirowski. “Stories of People, Land, and Water: Using Spatial Technologies to Explore Regional Environmental History.” In Historical GIS Research in Canada, edited by Jennifer Bonnell and Marcel Fortin, 83–108. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2014.

To download the PDF of the required reading, click on the Read Free tab and select Chapter 5.
Buggey, Susan. “Indigenous Cultural Landscapes.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2008, updated 2015.
Nardi, Sarah de. “Senses of Place, Senses of the Past: Making Experiential Maps as Part of Community Heritage Fieldwork.” Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage 1, (February 2014): 5–22.
Clerk, Nathalie. “Historic Gardens.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2011, updated 2015.
Stewart, John Jay. Rev. by Deanna J. Kerrigan. “Historic Landscapes and Gardens: Procedures for Restoration.” History News Technical Leaflet # 199. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1974, 1997.
O’Neill, Anne. “The Gardens of 18th-Century Louisbourg.” Journal of Garden History 3, (July/September 1983): 176–78.
Jacques, David. “Evolution of Principles for the Conservation of Gardens and Designed Landscapes.” In Gardens and Landscapes in Historic Building Conservation. 1st ed., edited by Marion Harney, 55–65. Chichester, UK: John Wiley and Sons, 2014.

Unit 10—Putting It All Together: A Case Study in Heritage Research

Babcock, Douglas. “Structural History.” In The Factor’s House, Fort Dunvegan: A Structural History. Prepared for Alberta Culture, Historic Sites Service, unpublished report, 1985, 11–28, 47–49.
Larmour, Judy. “Sources.” In The Hudson’s Bay Company’s Factor’s House, Dunvegan: A Material History, 1877–1900. Prepared for Alberta Culture, Historic Sites Service, unpublished report, 1987, 25–33.
Larmour, Judy. “Emile Grouard, Artist Bishop of the North: The Altar Paintings and Decoration of the Sanctuary in St. Charles Church, Dunvegan.” Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada/Société pour l’étude de l’architecture au Canada Bulletin 17, no. 4 (December/décembre, 1992): 105–09.
Smith, Brian, Mary Margaret Smith, and Kathleen M. Neary. “GlQp-6: Discussion and Evaluation.” In Archaeological Investigations, Dunvegan, Alberta: Hudson’s Bay Company 1877 Factor’s House (GlQp-8) and St. Charles Mission Roman Catholic Church (GlQp-6) Permit 89-20. Prepared for the Fort Dunvegan Historical Society and Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism, Archaeological Survey and Ethnology, Provincial Museum of Alberta, 1991, 84–85.
Athabasca University. Heritage Research and Historic Dunvegan, Alberta. Athabasca University, 2008. Unless otherwise noted, photos are courtesy of the Government of Alberta.

Peeling Back the Layers: Revealing the Structural History of the Factor’s House: The Factor’s House, Exterior.

Peeling Back the Layers: Revealing the Structural History of the Factor’s House: The Factor’s House, Interior.

Furnishing the Factor’s House: The Curator and Artifact-Specific Research.

Furnishing the Factor’s House: Seeking Original and Historic Items.

Furnishing the Factor’s House: Prototypes and Reproduction.

Furnishing the Factor's House: Working with Ghosts.

Furnishing the Factor’s House: Currently Manufactured Items.

Furnishing the Factor’s House: Taking the Measure of the Building.

Furnishing the Factor’s House: Acquisition Is Always Ongoing.

Interpreting the Site for Visitors: Putting a Tour Script Together.

Interpreting the Site for Visitors: Reading the Visitor.

Interpreting the Site for Visitors: Issues of Identity—Past and Present.

Interpreting the Site for Visitors: Welcome to the Factor's House!

Assignment 1: Analyzing Visual Images

Milk Makes Muscle. Produced by the Alberta Department of Agriculture. 1920s. Film courtesy Provincial Archives of Alberta.

Assignment 2: Learning to Listen

Excerpt from Sister Salvatrice Liota, 27 May 1998.

Interviewed by James Morrison. Sister Salvatrice Liota. Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, 98.05.27SL. (Duration 0:12:24 minutes. MP3 sound format audio file).
Excerpt from Agnes Potts, July 2, 2006.

Interviewed by Steven Schwinghamer. Agnes Ugolini Potts. Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, 06.07.02AP. (Duration 0:10:47 minutes. MP3 sound format audio file).

Assignment 3: Documenting and Researching Heritage Buildings

Alberta Municipal Heritage website
Alberta Municipal Heritage Partnership Program. Identifying Historic Places: Part 2—Heritage Survey Field Guide.
Alberta Municipal Heritage Partnership Program. Identifying Historic Places: Part 3—Heritage Survey Codes.