Download or read book The Little Giant George Dawson written by Joyce Barkhouse and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1989-06-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Mercer Dawson (1849?1901) defied health circumstances to become one of Canada's most exceptional geologists and explorers, particularly in the Yukon.
Download or read book George Dawson written by Joyce C. Barkhouse and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Dawson written by Joyce Barkhouse and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1989-06-30 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exceptional man, George Mercer Dawson (1849-1901) a tiny hunchback, may have contributed more than any other person to early knowledge of the geology, biology and ethnology of Canada’s Northwest. Possessed of a brilliant mind, boundless enthusiasm, an insatiable thirst for knowledge, and a great love of the land, he made some of the most epic exploratory journeys in Canadian history. His maps and reports remain invaluable reference sources. Both Dawson City and Dawson Creek are named in his honour. This book tells the story of some of his life experiences and adventures.
Download or read book George Mercer Dawson written by William Chalmers and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dawson worked for the International Boundary Commission and the Geological Survey of Canada. He surveyed the 49th parallel, vast tracts of land in British Columbias Interior, and many rivers in the Yukon. He knew the value of the Klondike gold fields ten years before the rush of 1898.
Download or read book Clash of the Little Giants written by Arne K. Lang and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-09-02 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1890s, when boxing rivaled the popularity of baseball, George Dixon and Terry McGovern were among its most famous practitioners. Their paths first crossed in 1900 in what is widely considered the most significant featherweight bout in history. Both men were fighters who died young under distressing circumstances. Both were products of a burgeoning industrial society and a cult of masculinity, at a time when prizefighting's adherents and opponents were in a constant tug-of-war. This book tells the full story, with a fascinating cast of characters including imperious manager/promoter Tom O'Rourke, World Welterweight Champion Barbados Joe Walcott, and Tammany Hall bigwig Timothy "Big Tim" Sullivan, whose invisible hand made New York the epicenter of boxing in the 1890s.
Download or read book 50 Roadside Panoramas in the Canadian Rockies written by Dave Birrell and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A drive through the mountains is always a pleasant experience. Travellers will be able to make the most of their road trips through the Canadian Rockies by keeping Dave Birrell's new pictorial guidebook handy in their glove compartments. Birrell delivers 50 magnificent mountain panoramas taken from highway viewpoints in the Rockies. Interesting historical tidbits accompany the panorama photos, helping the reader identify peaks by name. Read the fascinating stories associated with geographical features such as valleys, lakes and passes and meet some of the individuals who shaped the early history and exploration of the Rockies.
Download or read book Yukon written by Melody Webb and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering vast distances in time and space, Yukon: The Last Frontier begins with the early Russian fur trade on the Aleutian Islands and closes with what Melody Webb calls 'the technological frontier'. Colourful and impeccably researched, her history of the Yukon Basin of Canada and Alaska shows how much and how little has changed there in the last two centuries. Successive waves of traders, trappers, miners, explorers, soldiers, missionaries, settlers, steamboat pilots, road builders, and aviators have come to the Yukon, bringing economic and social changes, but the immense land 'remains virtually untouched by permanent intrusions.'
Download or read book A Name for Himself written by Joyce Barkhouse and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1990-06-30 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Twelve months in any place, my friend, is quite a weary whileAnd seems more like a century when lived on Sable Isle ..." So wrote Thomas Raddall at the age of eighteen, not dreaming that many years later Sable Island – that "hell on earth" – would provide a romantic background for one of his greatest novels, The Nymph and the Lamp. Traumatized by the horror of the great Halifax Explosion of 1917, followed in a few months by the death of his father in battle overseas, Tom was forced to leave school at the age of fourteen. This brief account of his life tells of his early adventures and of how he became one of Canada’s most renowned storytellers.
Download or read book The Canada Year Book written by Canada. Dominion Bureau of Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Train Beyond the Mountains written by Rick Antonson and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating journey blending memoir, history, and biography that takes the reader on one of the world's most famous trains and tells of carving the dramatic route it follows, while pondering other international railways through the eyes of travellers past and present. Rick Antonson has ridden trains in more than thirty-five countries—but almost everything he thinks he knows about train travel changes when he boards the Rocky Mountaineer with his ten-year-old grandson, Riley. As they wind over trestles and through tunnels, each mile of track uncovers stories of dynamite and discovery, surveyors and schemers, explorers and visionaries, and the people who helped to build Canada against the odds of geography and politics. Surrounded by a wild landscape that sparks imagination, fellow passengers recount train travels in other countries, get nostalgic for the era of steam locomotives, and consider life’s unfinished journeys. Peppered with spirited dialogue, heartrending vignettes, and intriguing anecdotes, Train Beyond the Mountains is a travelogue with urgency: to make your travel dreams happen now. As one passenger muses, "The mistake we make is that we think we have time."
Download or read book Will to Power written by David Mulhall and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of British Columbia's most famous missionary, Father A.G. Morice, OMI, casts new lights on his motives and actions. Extraordinarily vain and egotistical, Morice was obsessed with gaining power and recognition as a missionary, explorer, and Indian expert. With his native intelligence and boundless energy and determination, he built a veritable kingdom for himself in northern B.C. However, his rebellious and erratic behaviour finally led to a conflict with his superiors, as David Mulhall points out in this fascinating account of a very atypical Oblate missionary.
Download or read book In Good Hands written by Ellen Easton McLeod and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999-12-20 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian Handicrafts Guild broadened the definition of art and the artist in Canada. Linking decorative arts with home arts and handicrafts, the Guild consistently showed them together at annual exhibitions at the art gallery in Montreal and formed a permanent collection documenting old and contemporary crafts. The Guild women combined creativity and philanthropy, voluntarism and an entrepreneurial spirit, education and concern with quality, in a movement that provided income and recognition to craftspeople and a craft legacy to Canada. In Good Hands is alive with the interplay between art and social history, and the issues this dialogue raised at the time and those we bring to it now constantly overlap. It deals with noblesse oblige and the era's patronizing attitude to cultural difference, but shows how the Guild consciously fostered an inclusive national feeling by exhibiting and selling crafts of all Canadians on an equal footing. It also draws a much broader perspective of women's roles in shaping our culture than has been the norm in Canadian art history.
Download or read book The Unexplained written by Kit Pearson and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2008 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unexplained is an anthology of eighteen shivery short stories and true tales by some of Canada's top authors. Among the talented contributors are: Kit Pearson, Karleen Bradford, Janet Lunn, Brian Doyle, Monica Hughes, Paul Yee, Tim Wynne- Jones, Jean Little and Lucy Maud Montgomery. Compiled and edited by Janet Lunn, this is a wonderfully eerie collection of short stories and anecdotes about strange and unexplained phenomena. Perfect for a sleepover or sitting around a campfire in the dark.
Download or read book Growing Up in the Oil Patch written by John Schmidt and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1989-06-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing Up in the Oil Patch chronicles the adventures and achievements of some of the most colourful, ambitious people of their time: statesmen, scoundrels, visionaries and developers. Participants all in the growing oil patch! The author presents a highly readable, informative and entertaining account of the early years in the development of Canada’s gas and oil industry. Based upon five years of research, interviews, and his fortuitous discovery of a rare, historically important scribbler, John Schmidt traces the paths of two enterprising American-born drillers, "Frosty" Martin and "Tiny" Phillips, whose drive and ingenuity were encouraged by British and Canadian promoters and financiers. Their entrepreneurial spirit took them initially to Leamington, Ontario, and ultimately into the heart of the oil patch in Western Canada.
Download or read book No Ordinary Man written by Lois Winslow-Spragge and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1993-06-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Mercer Dawson, famed geologist, includes the surveying of the Yukon and being head of the Geological Survey of Canada among his incredible legacies.
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Download or read book Naming Canada written by Alan Rayburn and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how some of Canada's most unusual place names came to be. Seventy-six essays, including fifteen new to this edition, updated to include changes, corrections, and new names to the year 2000.
