Alberta Gambling Research Institute
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The Alberta Gambling Research Institute is a consortium of the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, and the University of Lethbridge. Its primary purpose is to support and promote research into gambling in the Province of Alberta.
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Item Open Access The compleat gamester : or, instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess, 2nd ed.(Printed for Henry Brome, 1680)The is thought to be the first English book devoted entirely to games and sports and was published anonymously and later ascribed to Charles Cotton.Item Open Access Lottery for building a prison, for the Town and District of Montreal([Town and District of Montreal?], 1784)Example of an early lottery ticket printed in eighteenth century Montreal.Item Open Access God's revenge against gambling : exemplified in the miserable lives and untimely deaths of a number of persons of both sexes, who had sacrificed their health, wealth, and honor at gaming tables, 2nd ed.(Lost Cause Press (Reprint), 1812) Weems, M. L. (Mason L.)Originally published: 1812. Reprinted by Lost Cause Press: 1978.Item Open Access Gambling superstitions(no publisher (no date), 1872)Article that appeared in the Cornhill Magazine (1872). Also available in the Literature of Folklore No. 695:13.Item Open Access The gambling games of the Chinese in America : fan t'an, the game of repeatedly spreading out, and pak kop piu or, the game of white pigeon ticket(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1891) Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929This item provides a ethnographic description of one of the best known and most popular gambling games among the Chinese labourers in America.Item Open Access A history of English lotteries : now for the first time written(Leadenhall Press, 1893) Ashton, JohnHistory of the English lottery from 1569 to 1893.Item Open Access Betting and gambling, 2nd ed.(James Nisbet, 1894) Churchill, SetonThis book was written in the nineteenth century and attempts to be "the means of helping any to take the right side in contending against one of the greatest evils of this age". It includes chapters on The History and Nature of Gambling; Evil Effects of Gambling; Games and Gambling; Spread of Gambling Among the Working Classes; Horse-Racing; Bookmakers and Tipsters; Commerce and Gambling; Monte Carlo, and; Remedies.Item Open Access Sharps and flats : a complete revelation of the secrets of cheating at games of chance and skill(Longmans, Green, and Company, 1894) Maskelyne, John NevilThis book was published in nineteeth century London, England and details strategies for cheating at gambling gambles. Included are sections on Marked Cards, Reflectors, Holdouts, Manipulation, Collusion, Conspiracy, Dice, Poker, Roulette, and the Game of Faro.Item Open Access Sermon on lotteries(1899) Adams, Henry FrancesThis item is a four page sermon on lotteries prepared by Henry Fracis Adams, Pastor of the First Baptist Church, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.Item Open Access Lottery evil in the province of Quebec(J. Lovell, 1899) Grose, John A.Item Open Access Why is it wrong to gamble? An address delivered before the Ministerial Association of Toronto, by Ven. Archdeacon Cody, D. D., Rector of St. Paul's Church, Toronto(The Moral and Social Reform Council of Canada, 1900) Cody, D.D.Item Open Access Light come, light go : gambling, gamesters, wagers, the turf(Macmillan, 1909) Nevill, RalphThis book details gambling in 19th Century Europe with particular emphasis given to England, France, Germany and Monaco. Included are descriptions of well-known gamblers and gambling events of the period.Item Open Access The anti-racetrack gambling campaign : the course pursued by Hon. A. B. Aylesworth, Minister of Justice(The Moral and Social Reform Council of Canada, 1910) Raney, W. E. (William Edgar), 1859-1933; Shearer, J. G. (John G.), 1859-1925Summary of the efforts by advocates of the Moral and Social Reform Council to amend the Criminal Code making the business of race-track gambling unlawful.Item Open Access The business of race track gambling : a report(Social Service Council of Canada, 1917) Raney, W. E. (William Edgar), 1859-1933This report primarily discusses how Canadian race tracks have propered since the enactment of the 1910 Dominion legislation. Since 1910 the form of gambling known as the pari-mutuel system has displaced the form of gambling known as bookmaking on all, or nearly all, the principal race tracks of Canada.Item Open Access Further flaying of racing under W. E. Raney's lash(Toronto Evening Telegram, 1917-02) Toronto Evening TelegramThis item reprints a series of Toronto newspaper articles relating to the critical comments delivered by W. E. Raney in February 1917 relating to legalized race track gambling in Canada.Item Open Access Argument of Mr. John M. Godfrey on an investigation conducted by Dr. Rutherford, the commissioner appointed by the Dominion Government to investigate racing and race-track gambling(No publisher, 1920) Godfrey, John M. (John Milton), 1871-1943Item Open Access In the reign of Rothstein(The Vanguard Press, 1929-01) Clarke, Donald HendersonIn the Reign of Rothstein is a memoir of reporter Donald Henderson Clarke’s relationship with notorious criminal underworld figure Arnold Rothstein. It was written in the months after Rothstein's death.Item Open Access Games and gamesters of the Restoration(George Routledge and Sons, 1930) Cotton, Charles; Lucas, TheophilusContents: The compleat gamester / Charles Cotton, 1674; Lives of the gamesters / Theophilus Lucas, 1714.Item Open Access Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association : the MacKenzie Collection, a study of West African carved gambling chips(American Anthropological Association, 1940) Seigel, MorrisNote: 'Supplement to American Anthropologist, Volume 42, No. 4, Part 2' [from title page]; Note: Alternative title from book spine; The artistic products of African natives are becoming increasingly better known to anthropologists and contemporary artists. It is chiefly through the efforts of field ethnologists, however, that interest in primitive creative work is flourishing at the present time. Although the formal principles of primitive art received close scrutiny and analysis, too little attention was directed towards those facets of art which reveal, upon further examination, far-reaching social and cultural connections. This study is, in a sense, an attempt to indicate some of these lacunae by means of a demonstration of the genuinely functional nature of primitive art objects.