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Book A View of the Birdtail

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  • Author : Marion W. Abra
  • Publisher : [s.l.] : History Committee of the Municipality of Birtle
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book A View of the Birdtail written by Marion W. Abra and published by [s.l.] : History Committee of the Municipality of Birtle. This book was released on 1974 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Way of the Bachelor

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  • Author : Alison R. Marshall
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2011-02-17
  • ISBN : 0774819170
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book The Way of the Bachelor written by Alison R. Marshall and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of early Japanese and Chinese settlers in British Columbia have come to define the Asian experience in Canada. Yet many men travelled beyond British Columbia to settle in small Prairie towns and cities. Chinese bachelors opened the region's first laundries and Chinese cafes. They maintained ties to the Old World and negotiated a place in the new by fostering a vibrant homosocial culture based on friendship, everyday religious practices, the example of Sun Yat-sen, and the sharing of food. This exploration of the intersection of gender and migration in rural Canada, in particular, offers new takes on the Chinese quest for identity in North America in general. With a preface by the Honourable Inky Mark, former Member of Parliament for Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette.

Book Walk Towards the Gallows

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  • Author : Tom Mitchell
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2004-02-11
  • ISBN : 1442692146
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Walk Towards the Gallows written by Tom Mitchell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-02-11 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 5 July 1899 Hilda Blake, a 21-year-old maidservant in Brandon, Manitoba, who had come to Canada from England ten years earlier as an orphan immigrant, shot and killed her mistress. Two days after Christmas she was hanged, one of the few women in Canadian history to die for her crime. Blake unintentionally left a remarkable documentary record, ranging from Poorhouse records, courts dockets of custody and criminal cases in which she was the central figure, popular, journalistic, and professional assessments of her character, and a poem, 'My Downfall', that she penned in Brandon Gaol while awaiting execution. To explain why Hilda bought a gun and why she fired it, Kramer and Mitchell employee both historical and literary techniques. The result is a richly textured story of late Victorian social, cultural, and political life. This remarkable book - part mystery, part historical detective story - uncovers Hilda Blake's life, from her origins in Norfolk, England, to her tragic death. It also examines the lives of other principals in the story: successful Brandon businessman Robert Lane and his wife Mary, the murdered woman; Lane's business partner, Alexander McIlvride; Police Chief James Kircaldy; A.P. Stewart and his wife, Letitia Singer Stewart, the family for whom the 12-year-old orphaned Hilda first worked as a domestic servant; Rev. C.C. McLaurin, the Baptist minister who knew Hilda and counselled the condemned woman in her final days; social purity activist Dr Amelia Yeomans, who petitioned for clemency; Governor-General Minto, who urged the Laurier government to stay the execution, even Clifford Sifton, the MP from Brandon, federal minister of Immigration, and the most powerful western Liberal in the Laurier cabinet, for whom the case was a potential minefield. As the authors write, 'We tell a story because only a story can expose the real workings of a culture, and only a story can express our protest against time.'

Book Curling Capital

Download or read book Curling Capital written by Morris Mott and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 1989-01-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major themes in this volume are the rise of Winnipeg to world curling prominence in the nineteenth century and the persistence of that prominence in the twentieth.

Book Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Download or read book Dictionary of Canadian Biography written by Ramsay Cook and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1966 with total page 1330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internet version contains all the information in the 14 volume print and CD-ROM versions; fully searchable by keyword or by browsing the name index.

Book Senate Documents

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  • Author : United States Senate
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1859
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1100 pages

Download or read book Senate Documents written by United States Senate and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reports of Explorations and Surveys  to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean  Made Under the Direction of the Secretary of War  in  1853 56

Download or read book Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean Made Under the Direction of the Secretary of War in 1853 56 written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bird Tail

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  • Author : Genevieve McBride
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 248 pages

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Book Valley of the Birdtail

Download or read book Valley of the Birdtail written by Andrew Stobo Sniderman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner – 2023 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize Winner – 2023 John W. Dafoe Book Prize Winner – 2023 High Plains Book Award for Indigenous Writer Winner – 2022 Manitoba Historical Society Margaret McWilliams Book Award for Local History Finalist – 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Finalist – Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Nominated – 2023 Forest of Reading Evergreen Shortlisted – 2023 Quebec Writers’ Federation Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction and Concordia University First Book Prize Finalist – Canadian Law and Society Association Book Prize Longlisted – 2023-2024 First Nations Communities Read A heart-rending true story about racism and reconciliation Divided by a beautiful valley and 150 years of racism, the town of Rossburn and the Waywayseecappo Indian reserve have been neighbours nearly as long as Canada has been a country. Their story reflects much of what has gone wrong in relations between Indigenous Peoples and non-Indigenous Canadians. It also offers, in the end, an uncommon measure of hope. Valley of the Birdtail is about how two communities became separate and unequal—and what it means for the rest of us. In Rossburn, once settled by Ukrainian immigrants who fled poverty and persecution, family income is near the national average and more than a third of adults have graduated from university. In Waywayseecappo, the average family lives below the national poverty line and less than a third of adults have graduated from high school, with many haunted by their time in residential schools. This book follows multiple generations of two families, one white and one Indigenous, and weaves their lives into the larger story of Canada. It is a story of villains and heroes, irony and idealism, racism and reconciliation. Valley of the Birdtail has the ambition to change the way we think about our past and show a path to a better future.

Book Subject Catalog

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  • Author : Library of Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1028 pages

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Book Schools in the West

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  • Author : Nancy M. Sheehan
  • Publisher : Calgary : Detselig Enterprises
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Schools in the West written by Nancy M. Sheehan and published by Calgary : Detselig Enterprises. This book was released on 1986 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Idiot s Guide to T ai Chi and Qigong

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to T ai Chi and Qigong written by Bill Douglas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yours"re no idiot, of course. You know that Trs"ai Chi and QiGong are ancient Chinese practices known to lower stress; slow aging; boost the immune system; help with asthma, arthritis, and migraines; and heal a host of chronic health problems. But when it comes to signing up for a Trs"ai Chi or QiGong class, you feel tied to the sofa. Let The Complete Idiotrs"s Guidereg; to Trs"ai Chi and QiGong, Second Edition, untie your bonds by giving you step-by-step ways to use Trs"ai Chi and QiGong to boost your health and work and expand your life in many ways. In this updated and revised Complete Idiotrs"s Guidereg;, you get: Simple definitions and explanations of Trs"ai Chi jargon and philosophy. Useful tips on bringing the soothing calm of Trs"ai Chi into your daily life to enhance your work and relationships. Important warnings on what can block the full effect of Trs"ai Chi-including a vastly improved instructional chapter. Practical applications for kids, adults, seniors, and people with special physical concerns. An expanded health and medical research reference section and listings of Trs"ai Chi and QiGong contacts throughout the world.

Book Papers Read Before the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba

Download or read book Papers Read Before the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba written by Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publication

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  • Author : Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 566 pages

Download or read book Publication written by Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Town Halls of Canada

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  • Author : Marc de Caraffe
  • Publisher : National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Environment Canada--Parks
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Town Halls of Canada written by Marc de Caraffe and published by National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Environment Canada--Parks. This book was released on 1987 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il s'agit d'une étude des premiers hôtels de ville canadiens, de leur relation avec la conception architecturale et l'histoire du canada.

Book Geographical Names of Manitoba

Download or read book Geographical Names of Manitoba written by Manitoba. Manitoba Conservation and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains approximately twelve thousand entries with information on the history & origin of Manitoba geographical names, for both populated areas and natural features. Entries include a National Topographic System map reference to indicate the approximate location.