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Book Canadian Geographical Journal

Download or read book Canadian Geographical Journal written by Lawrence Johnstone Burpee and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes for 1930-Dec. 1930 include section "Amongst the new books."

Book Canadian Geographical Journal

Download or read book Canadian Geographical Journal written by Lawrence Johnstone Burpee and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1930-Dec. 1930 include section "Amongst the new books."

Book Death So Noble

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan F. Vance
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2011-11-01
  • ISBN : 0774842318
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Death So Noble written by Jonathan F. Vance and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Canada's collective memory of the First World War through the 1920s and 1930s. It is a cultural history, considering art, music, and literature. Thematically organized into such subjects as the symbolism of the soldier, the implications of war memory for Canadian nationalism, and the idea of a just war, the book draws on military records, memoirs, war memorials, newspaper reports, fiction, popular songs, and films. It takes an unorthodox view of the Canadian war experience as a cultural and philosophical force rather than as a political and military event.

Book Canadian Geographical Journal 1935 1937

Download or read book Canadian Geographical Journal 1935 1937 written by Lawrence J.; ed Burpee and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains some volumes between vol. 11, no. 6, December 1935 and vol. 14, no. 4, April 1937.

Book On the Front Line of Life

Download or read book On the Front Line of Life written by Stephen Leacock and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last years of his life, Leacock wrote informal essays blending humour with a conversational style about topics like education, literature, economics, Canada's place in the world, and the joys and sorrows of his life. These passionate, personal essays convey the message that only the human spirit can bring social justice, peace, and progress.-These essays reveal a personal Leacock, conveying the message that only the human spirit can bring social justice, peace, and progress.

Book Vimy

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  • Author : Tim Cook
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2017-03-07
  • ISBN : 0735233179
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book Vimy written by Tim Cook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the 2018 JW Dafoe Book Prize Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018 Runner-up for the 2018 Templer Medal Book Prize Finalist for the 2018 Ottawa Book Awards A bold new telling of the defining battle of the Great War, and how it came to signify and solidify Canada’s national identity Why does Vimy matter? How did a four-day battle at the midpoint of the Great War, a clash that had little strategic impact on the larger Allied war effort, become elevated to a national symbol of Canadian identity? Tim Cook, Canada’s foremost military historian and a Charles Taylor Prize winner, examines the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the way the memory of it has evolved over 100 years. The operation that began April 9, 1917, was the first time the four divisions of the Canadian Corps fought together. More than 10,000 Canadian soldiers were killed or injured over four days—twice the casualty rate of the Dieppe Raid in August 1942. The Corps’ victory solidified its reputation among allies and opponents as an elite fighting force. In the wars’ aftermath, Vimy was chosen as the site for the country’s strikingly beautiful monument to mark Canadian sacrifice and service. Over time, the legend of Vimy took on new meaning, with some calling it the “birth of the nation.” The remarkable story of Vimy is a layered skein of facts, myths, wishful thinking, and conflicting narratives. Award-winning writer Tim Cook explores why the battle continues to resonate with Canadians a century later. He has uncovered fresh material and photographs from official archives and private collections across Canada and from around the world. On the 100th anniversary of the event, and as Canada celebrates 150 years as a country, Vimy is a fitting tribute to those who fought the country’s defining battle. It is also a stirring account of Canadian identity and memory, told by a masterful storyteller.

Book The New Labrador Papers of Captain George Cartwright

Download or read book The New Labrador Papers of Captain George Cartwright written by George Cartwright and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008-06-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain George Cartwright (1739-1819), an English merchant who spent time in Labrador between 1770 and 1786, is best known for the fascinating account of his experiences provided in his Journal of Transactions and Events during a Residence of nearly Sixteen Years on the Coast of Labrador (1792). In recent years more of his papers have been discovered and stand alongside his journal as important source material for the early colonial period in the Atlantic region. Transcribed from original documents and extensively annotated by Marianne Stopp, the new papers deal with practical matters such as how to build a house in a sub-arctic climate, the best methods of sealing, trapping, and salmon fishing, as well as merchant rivalries and trade with Aboriginal groups. Cartwright's papers are of value for what they tell us about early methods and materials; Stopp's detailed introduction provides a history of Cartwright's Labrador and discusses these new papers with respect to early architecture, ethnohistory, material culture, and Inuit studies.

Book The Welfare State in Canada

Download or read book The Welfare State in Canada written by Allan Moscovitch and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major reference work of its kind in the social welfare field in Canada, this volume is a selected bibliography of works on Canadian social welfare policy. The entries in Part One treat general aspects of the origins, development, organization, and administration of the welfare state in Canada; included is a section covering basic statistical sources. The entries in Part Two treat particular areas of policy such as unemployment, disabled persons, prisons, child and family welfare, health care, and day care. Also included are an introductory essay reviewing the literature on social welfare policy in Canada, a "User's Guide," several appendices on archival materials, and an extensive chronology of Canadian social welfare legislation both federal and provincial. The volume will increase the accessibility of literature on the welfare state and stimulate increased awareness and further research. It should be of wide interest to students, researchers, librarians, social welfare policy analysts and administrators, and social work practitioners.

Book Bibliographical Series

Download or read book Bibliographical Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Mile of Make Believe

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  • Author : Steve Penfold
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2016-09-23
  • ISBN : 1442630981
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book A Mile of Make Believe written by Steve Penfold and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mile of Make Believe examines the unique history of the Santa Claus parade in Canada. This volume focuses on the Eaton’s sponsored parades that occurred in Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg as well as the shorter-lived parades in Calgary and Edmonton. There is also a discussion of small town alternatives, organized by civic groups, service clubs, and chambers of commerce. By focusing on the pioneering effort of the Eaton’s department store Steve Penfold argues that the parade ultimately represented a paradoxical form of cultural power: it allowed Eaton’s to press its image onto public life while also reflecting the decline of the once powerful retailer. Penfold’s analysis reveals the "corporate fantastic" – a visual and narrative mix of meticulous organization and whimsical style– and its influence on parade traditions. Steve Penfold’s considerable analytical skills have produced a work that is simultaneously a cultural history, history of business and commentary on consumerism. Professional historians and the general public alike would be remiss if this wasn’t on their holiday wish list.

Book Canadian North

Download or read book Canadian North written by Georgetown University and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sessional Papers

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  • Author : Ontario. Legislative Assembly
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1939
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1042 pages

Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Ontario. Legislative Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book LATE CENOZOIC VERTEBRATES FROM THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST  A TRIBUTE TO ARTHUR H  HARRIS

Download or read book LATE CENOZOIC VERTEBRATES FROM THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST A TRIBUTE TO ARTHUR H HARRIS written by Gary S. Morgan and published by New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Canadian Historical Review

Download or read book The Canadian Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beardmore

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  • Author : Douglas Hunter
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2018-08-21
  • ISBN : 0773555358
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Beardmore written by Douglas Hunter and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a sensational acquisition: the contents of a Viking grave that prospector Eddy Dodd said he had found on his mining claim east of Lake Nipigon. The relics remained on display for two decades, challenging understandings of when and where Europeans first reached the Americas. In 1956 the discovery was exposed as an unquestionable hoax, tarnishing the reputation of the museum director, Charles Trick Currelly, who had acquired the relics and insisted on their authenticity. Drawing on an array of archival sources, Douglas Hunter reconstructs the notorious hoax and its many players. Beardmore unfolds like a detective story as the author sifts through the voluminous evidence and follows the efforts of two unlikely debunkers, high-school teacher Teddy Elliott and government geologist T.L. Tanton, who find themselves up against Currelly and his scholarly allies. Along the way, the controversy draws in a who’s who of international figures in archaeology, Scandinavian studies, and the museum world, including anthropologist Edmund Carpenter, whose mid-1950s crusade against the find’s authenticity finally convinced scholars and curators that the grave was a fraud. Shedding light on museum practices and the state of the historical and archaeological professions in the mid-twentieth century, Beardmore offers an unparalleled view inside a major museum scandal to show how power can be exercised across professional networks and hamper efforts to arrive at the truth.

Book The Visual Arts in Canada

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Foss
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 506 pages

Download or read book The Visual Arts in Canada written by Brian Foss and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the developments in Canadian art from the late nineteenth century to the present with new essays by the country's leading art historians. A comprehensive overview, this volume embraces painting, sculpture, photography, design, video, and conceptual and cross-disciplinary art, as well as studies of art institutions and historiography. Each chapter explores the richness and diversity of Canadian art; topics range from impressionist painting to the multimedia work of First Nations artists, and from the Group of Seven to contemporary video production. Newly commissioned, carefully edited, and with 185 full-colour illustrations, The Visual Arts in Canada will appeal to general readers and students alike. An extensive index, as well as an appendix that list galleries and artist-run centres across the country, make this the definitive resource for Canadian art from the past century. Throughout the twenty chapters, readers will recognize favourite artists and encounter new ones-all of whom play an integral role in the country's visual history.