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Gerhard Ens, PhD University of Alberta

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Contact

Faculty of Arts - History, Classics, & Religion Dept
Email
gens@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-6383
Address
2.14 Tory (H.M.) Building
11211 Saskatchewan Drive NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2H4

Overview

Research

Research Interests:
  • Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Metis Society and Politics
  • The Fur Trade
  • The Missionary West - Oblates/Church Missionary Society
  • Ethnic Settlement


I am currently working on a multi-volume scholarly edition of the Edmonton House fur-trade journals. The first two volumes (1806-21; 1821-26) have been published.

Teaching

My Teaching interests include:

  • Canadian History
  • The Canadian and American Wests
  • Environmental History
  • Native History
  • Fur Trade History

My Fields of Graduate Supervision include:

  • Western Canada
  • Metis and Indigenous History
  • Fur Trade and Western Missions

Featured Publications

Hudson's Bay Company – Edmonton House Journals, Reports from the Saskatchewan District Including the Bow River Expedition, 1821-1826

Gerhard J. Ens, Ted Binnema (eds.)

2016 January;

From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Metis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to Twenty-first Centuries

Gerhard J. Ens, Joe Sawchuk

2015 January;

Edmonton House Journals and District Reports, 1806-1821

Gerhard J. Ens and Ted Binnema

2012 January;

A Son of the Fur Trade: The Memoirs of Johnny Grant

Gerhard J. Ens (editor)

2008 January;

From Rupert’s Land to Canada: Essays in Honour of John E. Foster

Gerhard J. Ens, Theodore Binnema, R.C. Macleod (editors)

2001 January;

Homeland to Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the nineteenth century

Gerhard J. Ens

1996 January;