print email comment close The Canadian West: Anticipation, Contact, Accommodation URL: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/05/0529/052901_e.html Description: This exhibition sheds light on Canada's westward expansion, from the 18th-century search for a Northwest Passage to the social protest movements of the early 1900s. Illustrations of over 200 artifacts and primary sources relating to such topics as the fur trade, immigration, railroads, and the First Nations (aboriginal peoples) demonstrate the dramatic and often catastrophic impact of European arrival and settlement. Also available in French. From the Library and Archives Canada. Author: Murray, Jeffrey S.; Stingel, Janine; Van Bavel, Irene Publisher: National Archives of Canada Library of Congress Subject Headings: Canada, Western -- History LII Database Information: Record 6465 created by Douglas Smith on 11/14/2001 Last modification on 07/30/2008 Last review by Charlotte Bagby on 11/25/2007 Charlotte Bagby on 09/09/2006 Published: 11/14/2001   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/6465