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Hall, David

Dr.  David Hall

(Emeritus Professor)

Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1973
M.A. University of Toronto, 1966
B.A.(Hons.)  University of Alberta at Calgary, 1965


david.hall@ualberta.ca

 

Expertise & Research Interests

  Western Canada Since 1870; political history

 

Teaching

HIST 290 - Introduction to History as a Discipline

HIST 370 -  Survey of Canadian History

HIST 372/366  - Canadian West since 1870

HIST 377/363 - Canadian External Relations

HIST 378/278/360/260 - Canada before Confederation

HIST 379/279/361/261 - Canada since Confederation

HIST 378 - Canada From Confederation to World War I

HIST 464 - Western Canada

HIST 466  - Western Canada since 1870

HIST 492/469 - Political and Constitutional History of Canada since Confederation

HIST 474 - Canada 1867-1914

HIST 475 - Twentieth-Century Canada

HIST 477 - Canadian External Relations

HIST 501 - Honours Essay

HIST 502 - Directed Study (Honours)

HIST 513 - Canadian Honours Comprehensive

History 498--participation 1981, 1982, 1984, 1986

Participation in Ukrainian 499--lectures on Ukrainian settlement in Canada , 1984-1987

Participated, 1978-79, in pilot project in cooperation with members of Department of English to test materials for improving student essays.

 

Selected Publications

Books/Monographs:

 

Clifford Sifton, vol. 2, A Lonely Eminence, 1900-1929, University of British Columbia Press, 1985, 437 pp.

 

Clifford Sifton, vol. I, The Young Napoleon, 1861-1900, University of British Columbia Press, 1981, 361 pp.

 

Clifford Sifton, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1976, 64 pp.

 

Refereed Articles:

 

New Dictionary of National Biography, “Clifford Sifton” (2000 words)

 

Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. XV, articles on: Sir James Lougheed (4000 words), co-author with D.B. Smith; Clifford Sifton (5000 words); R.G. Brett (2500 words); G.H.V. Bulyea (1000 words); A.L. Sifton (4000 words).

 

"The Construction Workers' Strike on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 1879," Labour/Le Travail, 36 (Autumn 1995), 11-36.

 

“The Pole-Star of Duty': A.M. Burgess and the Department of the Interior," in Prairie Forum, 16:1, Spring 1991, (pp.21-40).

 

"Project 2005: a Centennial History of Alberta ," Alberta , vol. 1 no. 2, 1989, 70-74.

"Room to Spare," Horizon Canada , vol. 7, no. 76, 1986, pp. 1801-1807.

 

"'A Serene Atmosphere'? Treaty 1 Revisited," Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. IV no. 2, Fall 1984, pp. 321-58.

 

"The Manitoba Grain Act: an 'Agrarian Magna Charta'?", Prairie Forum, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring 1979, pp. 105-20.

 

"T.O. Davis and Federal Politics in Saskatchewan , 1896," Saskatchewan History, XXX, Spring 1977, pp. 56-62.

 

"The Half-Breed Claims Commission," Alberta History, XXV no. 2, Spring 1977, pp. 1-8.

 

"Clifford Sifton and Canadian Indian Administration, 1896-1905," Prairie Forum, vol. 2 no. 2, November 1977, pp. 127-51.

 

"'The Spirit of Confederation': Ralph Heintzman, Professor Creighton, and the Bicultural Compact Theory," Journal of Canadian Studies, IX no. 4, November 1974, pp. 24-43.

 

"A Divergence of Principle: Clifford Sifton, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the North-West Autonomy Bills, 1905," Laurentian University Review/Revue de l'Université Laurentienne, VII no. 1, November 1974, pp. 3-24.