Download or read book I Remember Laurier written by Harold Remus and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Remember Laurier is the story—actually, thirty-seven stories—of the little university that could, told by some of those who devoted themselves to transforming the school from its modest beginnings into a superb small liberal arts college, and in turn to the university whose growth, diversification, research, and partnerships characterize it today. Although the stories are diverse in content, viewpoint, and tone, readers will note a number of unifying themes, one being nostalgia for a small university where faculty, staff, and students were close and new initiatives were readily approved and easily implemented. Here too are reflections, sometimes bemused and sprinkled with humour, on professors, administrators, and students, the “Laurier Experience,” and significant events such as “WLU” becoming “WLU” (Waterloo Lutheran University was renamed Wilfrid Laurier University in 1973). Evident throughout is the pride of the contributors in the development of the university to its current status and in having played a role. In the photo album at the back of the book readers will find vintage prints of the authors and of many others mentioned in the book. More photos will soon be available on the website of the Wilfrid Laurier Retirees’ Association: http://www.wlu.ca/retirees.
Download or read book What the Oceans Remember written by Sonja Boon and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Sonja Boon’s heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than thirty years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. Boon’s family history spans five continents: Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, South America, and North America. Despite her complex and multi-layered background, she has often omitted her full heritage, replying “I’m Dutch-Canadian” to anyone who asks about her identity. An invitation to join a family tree project inspired a journey to the heart of the histories that have shaped her identity. It was an opportunity to answer the two questions that have dogged her over the years: Where does she belong? And who does she belong to? Boon’s archival research—in Suriname, the Netherlands, the UK, and Canada—brings her opportunities to reflect on the possibilities and limitations of the archives themselves, the tangliness of oceanic migration, histories, the meaning of legacy, music, love, freedom, memory, ruin, and imagination. Ultimately, she reflected on the relevance of our past to understanding our present. Deeply informed by archival research and current scholarship, but written as a reflective and intimate memoir, What the Oceans Remember addresses current issues in migration, identity, belonging, and history through an interrogation of race, ethnicity, gender, archives and memory. More importantly, it addresses the relevance of our past to understanding our present. It shows the multiplicity of identities and origins that can shape the way we understand our histories and our own selves.
Download or read book House of Commons Debates Official Report written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Official Report of Debates House of Commons written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Official Report of the Debates of the House of Commons written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada written by Canada. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
Download or read book Official Report of Debates House of Commons written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Wilfrid Laurier written by Peter McArthur and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sir Wilfrid Laurier" by Peter McArthur offers readers an insightful biography of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, a prominent figure in Canadian history. McArthur's narrative skillfully portrays the life and achievements of Laurier, shedding light on his contributions to the political landscape of Canada. This book is an informative and educational read for those interested in Canadian history and the political leaders who have shaped the nation's development. It offers a comprehensive perspective on Laurier's leadership and legacy.
Download or read book Debates of the Senate Official Report Hansard written by Canada. Parliament. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Debates of the Senate written by Canada. Parliament. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empire Ascendant written by Cees Heere and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1902, the British government concluded a defensive alliance with Japan, a state that had surprised much of the world with its sudden rise to prominence. For the next two decades, the Anglo-Japanese alliance would hold the balance of power in East Asia, shielding Japan as it cemented its regional position, and allowing Britain to concentrate on meeting the German challenge in Europe. Yet it was also a relationship shaped by its contradictions. Empire Ascendant examines how officials and commentators across the British imperial system wrestled with the implications of Japan's unique status as an Asian power in an international order dominated by European colonial empires. On the settlement frontiers of Australasia and North America, white colonial elites formulated their own responses to the growth of Japan's power, charged by the twinned forces of colonial nationalism and racial anxiety, as they designed immigration laws to exclude Japanese migrants, developed autonomous military and naval forces, and pressed Britain to rally behind their vision of a 'white empire'. Yet at the same time, the alliance legitimised Japan's participation in great-power diplomacy, and worked to counteract racist notions of a 'yellow peril'. By the late 1900s, Japan stood at the centre of a series of escalating inter-imperial disputes over foreign policy, defence, migration, and ultimately, over the future of the British imperial system itself. This account weaves together studies of diplomacy, strategy, and imperial relations to pose searching questions about how Japan's entry into the 'family of civilised nations' shaped, and was shaped by, ideologies of race.
Download or read book Debates of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada written by Canada. Parliament. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Red Wine of Youth written by Arthur Stringer and published by Greenwood-Heinemann Publishing. This book was released on 1921 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Year on the Farm written by Brian J. Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian J. Smith lived as a child on a dairy farm near Ingersoll, Ontario with his family and grandmother in 1966-67. This lifestyle was very different from the suburbs that he was used to. In "My Year on the Farm" he recalls the daily adventures and experiences of living the rural life in that special year. The book is also a tribute to his industrious grandmother, Isabella Wilson, who managed the farm. "My Year on the Farm" explores the roots of his ancestry through his grandmother. Her example has been a great inspiration for Brian.
Download or read book Dictionary of Louisiana French written by Albert Valdman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 2218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western prairie. Data were collected during interviews from at least five persons in each of twenty-four areas in these regions. In addition to the data collected from fieldwork, the dictionary contains material compiled from existing lexical inventories, from texts published after 1930, and from archival recordings. The new authoritative resource, the DLF not only contains the largest number of words and expressions but also provides the most complete information available for each entry. Entries include the word in the conventional French spelling, the pronunciation (including attested variants), the part of speech classification, the English equivalent, and the word's use in common phrases. The DLF features a wealth of illustrative examples derived from fieldwork and textual sources and identification of the parish where the entry was collected or the source from which it was compiled. An English-to-Louisiana French index enables readers to find out how particular notions would be expressed in la Louisiane.
Download or read book Rough and Plenty written by Raymond A. Rogers and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a commercial fisher in Nova Scotia in the early 1990s, Raymond Rogers experienced the collapse of Canada’s East Coast fishery first-hand. Afterward, while preparing to leave the province to find work elsewhere, Rogers noticed a lone gravestone across the road from his home in Shelburne County that commemorates the life of Donald McDonald, a crofter from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, who “departed this life” in 1881. Rogers wondered if there might be a connection between the necessity of his own departure, and McDonald’s lonely presence on the nearby Atlantic shore, linking them as members of local communities that were displaced in the name of “economic progress.” In Rough and Plenty: A Memorial, Rogers explores the parallel processes of dispossession suffered by nineteenth-century Scottish crofters expelled from their ancestral lands during the Highland Clearances, and by the marginalization of coastal fishing communities in Nova Scotia. The book aims to memorialize local ways of life that were destroyed by the forces of industrial production, as well as to convey the experience of dislocation using first-hand narratives, recent and historical. The author makes the case that in a world where capital abhors all communities but itself, remembering becomes a form of advocacy that can challenge dominant structures.
