Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History

The increasing interest of the public in Canada's historic heritage is reflected in the growing number of museums, restorations, commemorations and similar developments sponsored by all levels of government and various private interests. In the federal sphere, responsibility for the selection, management and development of sites of national historic importance rests with the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. He is advised by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, an independent body composed of members from each province, which considers all proposals for commemoration and which recommends to the Minister those persons, places and events which are of sufficient importance to the country as a whole to merit recognition on a national level. The management and development of those sites which the Minister has declared to be of national historic importance are carried out by the National Historic Sites Service (formerly Canadian Historic Sites Division).

The obvious results of the Service's work take the form of National Historic Parks and Sites and involve the staff in architectural restoration and preservation, museums and displays, plaques, period furnishings and pamphlets. Historical and archaeological research play a key role in all of this, for they provide the base of knowledge which enables the Service to develop in a meaningful fashion those sites which have relevance to national history. To date, our work has concentrated on the broad aspects of communication with the general public in the form of site interpretation and we have been unable to give sufficient consideration to communication at the professional level in the form of published research reports. We recognize, however, the obligation of the historian and the archaeologist to make known the results of their work and it is to discharge this obligation that the present series of occasional papers has been inaugurated.

It is hoped that these papers will receive the critical and helpful attention of those working elsewhere in similar and related fields and will serve as a stimulus to further research in the anthropology and history of Canada.

1 (HTML) (PDF)		Foreword by J. A. MacDonald Archaeological Investigations of the National Historic Sites Service, 1962-1966 by John H. Rick A Classification System for Glass Beads for the Use of Field Archaeologists by Kenneth E. and Martha Ann Kidd The Roma Settlement at Burdenell Point, Prince Edward Island by Margaret Coleman
2 (HTML) (PDF)		Archaeological Research at the Fortress of Louisbourg, 1961-1965 by Edward McM. Larrabee A "Rescue Excavation" at the Princess Half-bastion, Fortress of Louisbourg by Bruce W. Fry An Archaeological Study of Clay Pipes from the King's Bastion, Fortress of Louisbourg by Iain C. Walker
3 (HTML) (PDF)		Comparison of the Faunal Remains from French and British Refuse Pits at Fort Michilimackinac: A Study in Changing Subsistence Patters by Charles E. Cleland The French in Gaspé, 1534 to 1760 by David Lee The Armstrong Mound on Rainy River by Walter A. Kenyon
4 (HTML) (PDF)		A Brief History of Lower Fort Garry by Dale Miquelon The Big House, Lower Fort Garry by George C. Ingram Industrial and Agricultural Activities at Lower Fort Garry by George C. Ingram The Sixth Regiment of Foot at Lower Fort Garry by William R. Morrison The Second Battalion, Quebec Rifles, at Lower Fort Garry by William R. Morrison
5 (HTML) (PDF)		Excavation at Lower Fort Garry, 1965-1967: A General Description of Excavations and Preliminary Discussions by James V. Chism
6 (HTML) (PDF)		A History of Rocky Mountain House by Hugh A. Dempsey The Excavation and Historical Identification of Rocky Mountain House by William C. Noble
7 (HTML) (PDF)		Archaeological Explorations at Signal Hill, Newfoundland, 1965-1966 by Edward B. Jelks
8 (HTML) (PDF)		The Canals of Canada by John P. Heisler
9 (HTML) (PDF)		The Canadian Lighthouse by Edward F. Bush Table Glass Excavated at Fort Amherst, Prince Edward Island by Paul McNally Halifax Waterfront Buildings: An Historical Report by Susan Buggey
10 (HTML) (PDF)		The Architectural Heritage of the Rideau Corridor by Barbara A. Humphreys Glassware Excavated at Fort Gaspereau, New Brunswick by Jane E. Harris Commissioners of the Yukon, 1897-1918 by Edward F. Bush
11 (HTML) (PDF)		The Battle of Queenston Heights by Carol Whitfield A History of Fort George, Upper Canada by Robert S. Allen The Battle of Châteauguay by Victor J. H. Suthren
12 (HTML) (PDF)		Lime Preparation at 18th-Century Louisbourg by Charles S. Lindsay Louisbourg Guardhouses by Charles S. Lindsay A Survey of Louisbourg Gunflints by T. M. Hamilton and Bruce W. Fry
13 (HTML) (PDF)		All that Glitters: A Memorial to Ottawa's Capitol Theatre and its Predecessors by Hilary Russell Glassware Excavated at Beaubassin, Nova Scotia by Jane E. Harris Sir Sam Hughes (1853-1921) by Carol Whitfield
14 (HTML) (PDF)		The British Indian Department and the Frontier in North America, 1755-1830 by Robert S. Allen The B.C. Mills Prefabricated System: The Emergence of Ready-made Buildings in Western Canada by G. E. Mills and D. W. Holdsworth
15 (HTML) (PDF)		A History of Martello Towers in the Defence of British North America, 1796-1871 by Ivan J. Saunders Report of the 1972 Archaeological Excavations of the Market Shoal Tower, Kingston, Ontario by Donald A. Harris
16 (HTML) (PDF)		The Battle of the Restigouche by Judith Beattie and Bernard Pothier Table Glass from the Wreck of the Machault by Paul McNally The Western European Coarse Earthenwares from the Wreck of the Machault by K. J. Barton The Cochrane Ranch by William Naftel
17 (HTML) (PDF)		The Halifax Citadel, 1825-60: A Narrative and Structural History by John Joseph Greenough
18 (HTML) (PDF)		A Campaign of Amateurs: The Siege of Louisbourg, 1745 by Raymond F. Baker The Construction and Occupation of the Barracks of the King's Bastion at Louisbourg by Blaine Adams
19 (HTML) (PDF)		Yukon Transportation: A History by Gordon Bennett
20 (HTML) (PDF)		A History of Fort Langley, 1827-96 by Mary K. Cullen Ranch Houses of the Alberta Foothills by L. G. Thomas
21 (HTML) (PDF)		The First Contingent: The North-West Mounted Police, 1873-74 by Philip Goldring Whisky, Horses and Death: The Cypress Hills Massacre and its Sequel by Philip Goldring The Dawson Daily News: Journalism in the Klondike by Edward F. Bush
22 (HTML) (PDF)		Spode/Copeland Transfer-Printed Patterns Found at 20 Hudson's Bay Company Sites by Lynne Sussman
23 (HTML) (PDF)		Blockhouses in Canada, 1749-1841: A Comparative Report and Catalogue by Richard J. Young Gaspé, 1760-1867 by David Lee
24 (HTML) (PDF)		Second Empire Style in Canadian Architecture by Christina Cameron and Janet Wright
25 (HTML) (PDF)		Gothic Revival in Canadian Architecture by Mathilde Brosseau
26 (HTML) (PDF)		Grubstake to Grocery Store: Supplying the Klondike, 1897-1907 by Margaret Archibald St. Anderew's Presbyterian Church, Lake Bennett, British Columbia by Margaret Carter The Old Fort Point Site: Fort Wedderburn II? by Karlis Karklins Analysis of Animal Remains from the Old Fort Point Site, Northern Alberta by Anne Meachem Rick

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En français ce numéro s'intitule Lieux historiques canadiens: Cahiers d'archéologie et d'histoire.

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