Beginning of Print Culture in Athabasca Country

Patricia Demers, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies and the Comparative Literature program at the University of Alberta, teaches and researches in the area of women's writing-from the early modern period to the present. Always an educator, writer, deep thinker, and conversationalist extraordinaire, Naomi McIlwraith teaches secondary English, Social Studies, and Aboriginal Studies. Dorothy Thunder is a Cree Instructor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.

• Introduction; Precarious Pyramid: The Economics & Politics of the CPP; The Quebec Pension Plan; Institutional Arrangements & Lessons for Alberta; Checking Out of the Hotel California: The Desirability of an Alberta Pension Plan; Alberta Opting Out of the Canada Pension Plan: Can it be done? Should it be done?; An Alberta Pension Plan: What Have We Learned?

"This volume contains a facsimile of a prayer book written in Cree syllabics by Father Emile Grouard and originally printed in 1883.... The syllabics are translated both into Cree and English, and include discussions of the problems encountered by the priest in preparing the book." Alberta History, Autumn 2010