Download or read book In Search of R B Bennett written by Peter B. Waite and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Canadian prime minister has a reputation as uncertain as that of R.B. Bennett (1870-1947). The Conservative party leader of the country during the worst years of the Great Depression, Bennett's fortune and ascension to the British House of Lords alienated him from the Canadian people during his lifetime, while his burial in England has kept him aloof from his country even in death. Writing a life of Bennett, who reportedly destroyed his correspondence every seven years, presents challenges for the biographer. Yet P.B. Waite shows that, while many details of Bennett's life may be unknown or disputed, his contributions to Canada are beyond doubt. Waite describes Bennett's bold initiatives, including his attempt to introduce unemployment insurance and the minimum wage, and the foundation of the Bank of Canada and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - achieved in the face of staunch opposition from banking and media magnates. He also studies Bennett's personal relationships and his lifelong bachelorhood, sifting through rumours and weighing conflicting opinions to shed new light on his life and personality. A remarkable study of a polarizing figure, In Search of R.B. Bennett uncovers the best and worst of the life and times of a pivotal Canadian leader.
Download or read book Bennett written by John Boyko and published by . This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised and updated version of his celebrated Bennett: The Rebel Who Challenged and Changed a Nation, Boyko looks at Bennett?s sometimes controversial and often misunderstood policies through a longer lens. He reveals that Bennett was less of an opportunistic politician attempting to curry popularity than a man who was following through on a life-long dedication to public service. Boyko argues that Bennett?s most notable achievements? unemployment insurance; minimum wage; fair-trade and anti-monopoly legislation; and the creation of the Bank of Canada and the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission? were consistent with the conservative economic and political beliefs he held throughout his life. He also explores the origins and hardening of those beliefs as he details Bennett?s birth into relative poverty in Hopewell Cape, New Brunswick, his stunning success as a corporate lawyer in Calgary, his years in politics, and his eventual retirement in England. Meticulously researched and brilliantly told, Bennett: The Rebel Who Challenged and Changed a Nation stands among other first-class biographies of this country?s political greats. --Publisher's description.
Download or read book Speech of Hon R B Bennett Leader of the Opposition on Fiscal Policy Delivered in the House of Commons on Tuesday June 11 1929 written by Richard Bedford Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book R B Bennett written by Ernest Watkins and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speech of R B Bennett Leader of the Opposition on the Budget Delivered in the House of Commons on Tuesday March 13 1928 written by Richard Bedford Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clinical Visual Optics written by Arthur George Bennett and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1989 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Majesty in Canada written by Colin Coates and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2006-02-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s accession to the throne, the Centre of Canadian Studies of the University of Edinburgh hosted its annual conference on the theme "Majesty in Canada". The essays that were presented at that conference reflect the wide-ranging recognitions of the different roles that monarchs and their representatives have played in Canada. The essays examine how Canadians have understood their ties to royalty and how the regal principle formed an important part of the national identity. Royal tours, vice-regal initiatives, representations of the sovereign’s power, and Canadian appeals to monarchical sentiments comprise the themes of these engaging essays, providing an up-to-date look at the historical and current personal influence of the Crown in Canada.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work written by Francis J. Turner and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of us, as Canadians, are touched throughout our lives by some aspect of social welfare, either as recipients, donors, or taxpayers. But despite the importance of the social network in our country, there has been no single source of information about this critical component of our society. Even professionals in the field of social work or social services have not had a comprehensive volume addressing the myriad features of this critical societal structure. The Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work fills this need. Over five hundred topics important to Canadian social work are covered, written by a highly diverse group of social workers covering all aspects of the field and all areas of the country. Practitioners, policy makers, academics, social advocates, researchers, students, and administrators present a rich overview of the complexity and diversity of social work and social welfare as it exists in Canada. The principal finding from this project underscores the long-held perception that there is a Canadian model of social work that is unique and stands as a useful model to other countries. The Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work will be an important source of information, both to Canadians and to interested groups around the world. The Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work is available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary.
Download or read book Rt Hon R B Bennett s Speeches Policies Etc written by Richard Bedford Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book R B Bennett written by Robert Saunders and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wretched of Canada written by Richard Bedford Bennett and published by [Toronto ; Buffalo] : University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These are the voices of the people who suffered most in the Great Depression of the 1930s - the prairie farmers, the unemployed workers, the old, the sick, and the very young. They lived in shacks, patched their clothes, and went to bed hungry. Their lives were bleak and still. Even the ordinary escape-hatches of the radio, the newspaper, and liquor were closed for many of them. Theirs was life at the bottom, a single-minded struggle for survival, monotonous and dreary. Yet they were a humble, proud, and God-fearing folk. Perhaps Canadians at that time had too much discipline and individualism, or too little political sophistication to fight out against a whole economic and social system. The editors have carefully culled 168 of the most interesting letters of the many thousands Prime Minister Bennett received during his term of office. The collection is unique in that it allows the poor to speak for themselves, bypassing the middle-class spokesmen - union leaders, social workers, radical politicians - who too often sketched the poor in their own image. These letters strip away the tawdry glamour and stupid nostalgia that somehow clouds the 1930s in retrospect. They reveal how bad the thirties were for some people in Canada: worse perhaps than most of the history texts and even the survivors remember. In a vivid and very personal way this collection gives both those who lived through the depression and those who know only the prosperity of the last few decades an insight into the human casualties of economic upheaval."--
Download or read book Five Years of R B Bennett written by Arch Dale and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scrum Wars written by Allan Levine and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1996-08-08 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of the scrum -- a beleaguered politican surrounded by jockeying reporters -- is central to our perception of Ottawa. The modern scrum began with the arrival of television, but even in Sir John A. Macdonald's day, a century earlier, reporters in the parliamentary press gallery had waited outside the prime minister's office, pen in hand, hoping for a quote for the next edition. The scrum represents the test of wills, the contest of wits, and the battle for control that have characterized the relationship between Canadian prime ministers and journalists for more than 125 years. Scrum Wars chronicles this relationship. It is an anecdotal as well as analytical account, showing how earlier prime ministers like Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Wilfrid Laurier were able to exercise control over what was written about their administrators, while more recent leaders like John Diefenbaker, Joe Clark, John Turner, and Brian Mulroney often found themselves at the mercy of intense media scrutiny and comment.
Download or read book The Wretched of Canada written by L. M. Grayson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book R B Bennett written by Ernest Watkins and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 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 1916 with total page 1252 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 1928 with total page 1518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
