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CANADA’S HISTORY
EST. 1920
AS
THE BEAVER
INSIDE DE-NAMING BRITISH COLUMBIA
GOLD
RUSH
RESISTANCE
AS
PROSPECTORS
FLOOD
THE KLONDIKE,
CHIEF ISAAC
LEADS HIS PEOPLE
TO
SAFETY
THE RAINMAKER
SAVIOUR OR CON MAN?
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CONTENTS
FEATURES
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Reconsidering
the Gold Rush
When prospectors stampeded into
the Klondike, Chief Isaac guided the
Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people through a
time of turmoil.
by Charlotte Gray
28
The Rainmaker
With a mix of chemistry and bravado,
a peddler of pluviculture convinced
farmers in Alberta that he could coax
water from the sky.
by Alan MacEachern
36
Creature
Comforters
We salute some famous — and
some not-so-famous — animals from
Canada’s past.
by Nancy Payne
44
De-naming
British Columbia
Canada’s westernmost province owes
its alias to a colonial power and a
murderous American fur trader. It’s
time for a conversation about the
name British Columbia.
by Ry Moran
20
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CONTRIBUTORS
Charlotte Gray,
CM, wrote
“Reconsidering the Gold
Rush.” She is the author of
eleven non-fiction bestsell-
ers of Canadian history and
biography, including
Sisters in the Wilder-
ness, The Promise of Canada,
and
Murdered
Midas.
A former chair of Canada’s National
History Society and winner of the Pierre Ber-
ton Award, she recently won a Library and
Archives Foundation Scholar Award. Gray
lives in Ottawa and is an adjunct professor
of history at Carleton University.
Alan MacEachern
is the
author of “The Rainmaker.”
He is a professor of his-
tory at Western University
and, in 2020-21, the L.M.
Montgomery Institute Visiting Scholar at
the University of Prince Edward Island.
He teaches and researches the environ-
mental and climate history of Canada.
McGill-Queen’s University Press recently
published his
The Miramichi Fire: A History
and will soon publish his and Edward Mac-
Donald’s
The Summer Trade: A History of
Tourism on Prince Edward Island.
CANADASHISTORY.CA
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AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2021
Vol 101:4
DEPARTMENTS
10
Letters
Fine fakes. Drawing
conclusions. Inspired reading.
11
Currents
Forever changed.
Facing the past. Straightlaced
fashion show. Royals at the rodeo.
Lost opportunities. Quebec historian
remembered. Searching for residential
school victims.
19
Trading Post
A brass mould
11
was used to recycle lead into shot for
firearms.
52
Books
Excerpt from
The
Diary of Dukesang Wong.
Reviews:
Threshold experiences. Rebuilding
societies. Happy medium. More
books: Spree killer, oil icon, principled
protestors, dangerous cargo.
60
Destinations
A sacred
60
Alberta landscape hosts ancient
Indigenous rock art. At the museums:
Prairie women, Niagara power station,
letters to mother.
64
Roots
What’s with the public’s
fascination with celebrity genealogy?
65
Annual Report
Celebrating
the success of 2020–21. Plus our
annual honour roll of donors.
74
Album
People hold fishing nets
44
74
at a shanty in Wiarton, Ontario.
Nancy Payne
is the author
of “Creature Comforters.”
Growing up on a farm in
central Ontario, Payne had
a succession of sickly barn
cats as pets, mostly named Tiger or Rascal.
She now has a perfectly healthy cat named
Nellie after a certain complicated Canadi-
an suffragist. Payne is a contributing editor
to this magazine and the editor of
Kayak:
Canada’s History Magazine for Kids,
which
is also published by Canada’s National
History Society.
Ry Moran,
Red River
Métis, wrote “De-naming
British Columbia.” Moran
is the associate university
librarian–reconciliation at
the University of Victoria and was the found-
ing director of the National Centre for Truth
and Reconciliation at the University of Mani-
toba. Prior to this, he served with the Truth
and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
as director of statement gathering and of
the National Research Centre. He is deeply
passionate about truth, reconciliation, and
the integrity of the historical record.
Coming up in
Canada’s History
The Beaver Returns
We return to our roots with the first
annual special supplement of
The Beaver.
AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2021
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