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Febbles to Febbles—How to Play Submitted by Tom Long The game is based on the fun family card game 'Apples to Apples', and as my site is Fort Edmonton Park (FEP), I call it 'Fepples to Fepples.' I created the cards using a MS Word template for creating playing cards and inserted my own Title, Image, and Text for each card (this then doubles in helping interpreters learn about the tangibles, like a flash card). There are 'Intangible' cards (Blue) and 'Tangible' cards (green). Intangibles are themes and concepts, preferably universal ideas. Tangibles are artifacts, buildings, activities, vehicles, and personae. Every player has a hand of 5 tangibles and draws back up to 5 whenever they play a card. Once per turn, one of the players is a judge and does not play his or her tangibles. Instead, he turns over an Intangible card. Each player must then choose which of their five tangibles that best fits the theme or idea. That is, if they wanted to communicate this theme to the visitor, what tangible at their disposal would do the job best. The judge takes each card face down and shuffles them so he doesn't know who played which card. Then he chooses the tangible he thinks best fits the theme. I have also played where interpreters do not 'hide' their submission and have a chance to give a short interpretation of how their tangible fits the theme. Even if you don't do this right off, it can be fun to do the anonymous round first -‐ then give the players the chance to justify their choices and see if the judge changes his mind! Another variation of the game is to switch the cards. Each player holds a hand of 5 intangibles, and the judge turns over a tangible. Each interpreter must then decide which of their themes they can connect to that tangible! The winner of a round, chosen by the judge, takes the Intangible card as her reward. She keeps it in front of her and the first player to a certain number of Intangibles (Depending on how long you have to play) is the winner.
Updated and used by NAI with permission, November 2013
Why are we here?
…historically, individually, presently. Why here? Why now? Why then?
Why do we play?
The growth of leisure time has meant and means that Canadians have more time than ever to spend on things that aren’t work or sleep.
Marriage
Mawwiage is a sacwed institution.
Who are we?
…ethnically, communally, religiously, politically? Who are our visitors? What aspects of their own experience make them who they are?
Sense of Place
What is unique to Edmonton? What do we think is unique? What makes this place special and how do we find out?
Travel
The traversing of distances can come in many lengths and from more than one impetus. The Earl of Southesk travelled to escape his elancholy, while Agnes Deans Cameron wanted to learn and write.
Where are we going?
The future beckons and we run to meet it. But how does a city evolve? How do citizens? How did we get here and from here, where?
Commerce
The transfer of goods from producers to consumers.
Crossroads
Literally, a junction where roads meet. Figuratively a nexus of just about anything.
Updated and used by NAI with permission, November 2013
Updated and used by NAI with permission, November 2013
Updated and used by NAI with permission, November 2013
Updated and used by NAI with permission, November 2013
Rowand House
Clerks’ Quarters
This impressive residence was built in ~1842 for John Rowand, Chief Factor of the HBC’s Saskatchewan District. It housed his domestic servants, guests, wife Louise, and daughters as well as guests. In addition it served as office space for clerks and storage space for Company goods.
So called because this building, during the 1840s, contained the sleeping quarters for the company’s clerks, gentlemen visitors, a gentlemen’s mess, a great hall, the Chief Trader’s office and quarters, a kitchen, and the cook’s quarters.
Trade Store
Ice House
Trade took place here between the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) and Aboriginal traders. This building includes a trade room, trade store, warehouse and a loft for fur storage.
Boat Shed
8 to 10 York boats were built every year at Edmonton House as their service life was short due to the harsh conditions of river travel.
With a sod roof and a deep pit filled with layers of river ice and straw, such structures preserved meat brought in by hunters or traded by Aboriginals, throughout the year.
Blacksmith Shop
Carpentry, boat building and ironwork were all essential trades in the daily regimen of the fur trade. Repairs to traps, guns and axes, making nails, hardware for buildings and boats, tools and garden implements all required the skills of the smith.
Mens’ Quarters
These units were shared by the working men of the post, as well as by the women and the families of those who had been allowed to enter into a ‘country marriage’ with either an Aboriginal or mixed-‐blood woman.
Gentlemen’s Stable
The personal horses of Company gentlemen, and sick or foaling horses were kept secure in this area. Horses might be used for draft (work), bison-‐hunting, or the recreational races favoured by HBC employees.
Carpentry Shop
(Image courtesy of ftedmontonpark.ca) Carpentry, boat building and ironwork were all essential trades in the daily regimen of the fur trade. The carpenter oversaw the construction of all Fort buildings, most furniture, and also aided the boat builder.
Updated and used by NAI with permission, November 2013
Updated and used by NAI with permission, November 2013
Tanning a hide
The processing of an animal hide could include stripping it from the carcass, washing, stretching, braining, scraping, and smoking it – depending on what you intend to use it for.
Travelling by stage or wagon
Get ready to be jostled and shaken by early suspension, eaten by mosquitoes, have your lungs clogged by dust – and possibly enjoy the heck out of it!
Voting
Exercise your franchise…if you’ve got it!
Cooking
The creation of food from scratch is not a lost art, but the simple tools available before the 1930s make this a general adventure in mixing, kneading, flavouring, cooking, and eating!
Shopping
Whether purchasing luxury goods for conspicuous consumption or necessaries for survival, you might just enjoy yourself.
Patrolling
Whether a Mountie on the trail, an EPF Constable on the beat, or even a Canadian ‘Tommy’ in No-‐Man’s-‐Land, nothing shall keep you from your appointed rounds.
Gardening
Whether you are growing pretty flowers, delicious (or otherwise) vegetables, or herbs with medicinal or other qualities, you are engaged in one of the most universal and age-‐old activities of humanity.
Singing
Way down by the street How sweet it would seem Once more just to dream in the moonlight
Buying / trading fur
“For today’s fashionable gentleman, Western fur is the fur to have, and nothing else will do!” -‐ Northern Light: The Edmonton Journey
