Research Catalog

Title

Ancient Canada / Robert McGhee ; illustrations, Gilles Archambault ; photographs, Harry Foster.

Author

McGhee, Robert.

Publication

[Hull, Quebec] : Canadian Museum of Civilization ; [Canada] : Libre expression, c1989.

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Details

Additional Authors

Canadian Museum of Civilization

Description

175 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.

Summary

Fourteen reconstructions of peoples, events and landscapes based on archaeological excavations carried on across Canada. The places discussed range from the coast of Labrador to the northern Yukon, and from Vancouver Island to the islands of the arctic archipelago.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Canada
• Indians of North America > Canada > Antiquities
• Paleo-Indians > Canada
• Inuit > Canada
• Inuit > Canada > Antiquities
• Canada > Antiquities
• Canada > History > To 1763 (New France)

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Published simultaneously in French under title: Le Canada au temps des envahisseurs.
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. In the beginning -- 2. The first inhabitants -- 3. People of the glacier's edge -- 4. The burial-mound builders -- 5. The first arctic explorers -- 6. Buffalo hunters -- 7. Builders of the serpent mound -- 8. Invaders from the North -- 9. Arctic whalers -- 10. Artists on the Badlands -- 11. The people of Hochelaga -- 12. Builders of plank houses -- 13. Farmers of the Great Lakes -- 14. The defence of Kitwanga -- 15. Beluga hunters -- 16. A remarkable past.

ISBN

0660107953

LCCN

cn^89096292^

OCLC

• 1100365637
• SCSB-12795277

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library