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Book Hidden in Plain Sight

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cora J. Voyageur
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2005-08-20
  • ISBN : 1442690909
  • Pages : 489 pages

Download or read book Hidden in Plain Sight written by Cora J. Voyageur and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-08-20 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Aboriginal people in Canada taught in schools and depicted in the media tends to focus on Aboriginal displacement from native lands and the consequent social and cultural disruptions they have endured. Collectively, they are portrayed as passive victims of European colonization and government policy, and, even when well intentioned, these depictions are demeaning and do little to truly represent the role Aboriginal peoples have played in Canadian life. Hidden in Plain Sight adds another dimension to the story, showing the extraordinary contributions Aboriginal peoples have made - and continue to make - to the Canadian experience. From treaties to contemporary arts and literatures, Aboriginal peoples have helped to define Canada and have worked to secure a place of their own making in Canadian culture. For this volume, editors David R. Newhouse, Cora J. Voyageur, and Daniel J.K. Beavon have brought together leading scholars and other impassioned voices, and together, they give full treatment to the Aboriginal contribution to Canada's intellectual, political, economic, social, historic, and cultural landscapes. Included are profiles of several leading figures such as actor Chief Dan George, artist Norval Morrisseau, author Tomson Highway, activist Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, and politician Phil Fontaine, among others. Canada simply would not be what it is today without these contributions. The first of two volumes, Hidden in Plain Sight is key to understanding and appreciating Canadian society and will be essential reading for generations to come.

Book The Potters  View of Canada

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  • Author : Elizabeth Collard
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN : 9780773504219
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book The Potters View of Canada written by Elizabeth Collard and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1983 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to be devoted exclusively to potters' view of Canada. Interest in nineteenth-century earthenware decorated with Canadian scenes has grown enormously in recent years. These ceramic pictures have caught the attention of museums and private collectors alike and have become notable features of the rapidly widening interest in Canadiana.

Book The Feel of the City

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  • Author : Nicolas Kenny
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2014-01-01
  • ISBN : 1442615818
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book The Feel of the City written by Nicolas Kenny and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the twentieth century, the modern metropolis was a riot of sensation. City dwellers lived in an environment filled with smoky factories, crowded homes, and lively thoroughfares. Sights, sounds, and smells flooded their senses, while changing conceptions of health and decorum forced many to rethink their most banal gestures, from the way they negotiated speeding traffic to the use they made of public washrooms. The Feel of the City exposes the sensory experiences of city-dwellers in Montreal and Brussels at the turn of the century and the ways in which these shaped the social and cultural significance of urban space. Using the experiences of municipal officials, urban planners, hygienists, workers, writers, artists, and ordinary citizens, Nicolas Kenny explores the implications of the senses for our understanding of modernity.

Book Bookseller   Stationer

Download or read book Bookseller Stationer written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canadian Bookseller and Stationers  Journal

Download or read book Canadian Bookseller and Stationers Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Out of the Studio

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  • Author : John Osborne
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2022-09-09
  • ISBN : 0228013321
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book Out of the Studio written by John Osborne and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography, one of the most influential inventions of the nineteenth century, has been shaped by Canadian innovators. Among them are two Quebec men who have flown beneath the radar in studies of the history of photography: the Smeaton brothers. Out of the Studio documents the life, oeuvre, and achievement of Charles Smeaton and his younger brother, John. Launched by the opening of their “photographic gallery” in 1861, they developed a reputation in Quebec for images of contemporaneous people, places, and events taken in challenging outdoor settings. Smeaton pictures of the aftermath of the Great Fire of Quebec in 1866 helped bring an understanding of the disaster to an international audience; images featuring the gold mining industry were displayed at the Exposition universelle in Paris the following year. When Charles travelled to Europe in 1866, he accomplished a feat previously thought impossible, taking the first successful photographs in the Roman catacombs. John moved to Montreal in 1869, where he worked for newspapers and developed techniques for the direct transfer of photographs into print without the necessity of intermediary engravings. Out of the Studio is the first comprehensive biographical study detailing the innovation and imagination of the Smeaton brothers and their legacy of images across two continents.

Book Pearson s Magazine

Download or read book Pearson s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 49, no. 9 (Sept. 1922) accompanied by a separately paged section entitled ERA: electronic reactions of Abrams.

Book Expo Sixty Seven

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  • Author : Rhona Richman Kenneally
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 0802097081
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Expo Sixty Seven written by Rhona Richman Kenneally and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expo 67, the world's fair held in Montreal during the summer of 1967, brought architecture, art, design, and technology together into a glittering modern package. Heralding the ideal city of the future to its visitors, the Expo site was perceived by critics as a laboratory for urban and architectural design as well as for cultural exchange, intended to enhance global understanding and international cooperation. This collection of essays brings new critical perspectives to Expo 67, an event that left behind a significant material and imaginative legacy. The contributors to this volume reflect a variety of interdisciplinary approaches and address Expo 67 across a broad spectrum ranging from architecture and film to more ephemeral markers such as postcards, menus, pavilion displays, or the uniforms of the hostesses employed on the site. Collectively, the essays explore issues of nationalism, the interplay of tradition and modernity, twentieth-century discourse about urban experience, and the enduring impact of Expo 67's technological experimentation. Expo 67: Not Just a Souvenir is a compelling examination of a world's fair that had a profound impact locally, nationally, and internationally.

Book European Fans in the 17th and 18th Centuries

Download or read book European Fans in the 17th and 18th Centuries written by Miriam Volmert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 17th and 18th century Europe, folding fans were important, socially-coded fashion accessories. In the course of the 18th century, painted and printed fan leaves displayed an increasing variety of visual motifs and artistic subject matter, while many of them also addressed contemporary political and social topics. This book studies the visual and material diversity of fans from an interdisciplinary perspective. The individual essays analyze fans in the context of the fine and applied arts, discussing the role of fans in cultures of communication and examining them as souvenir objects and vehicles for political and social messages.

Book Souvenirs from the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria

Download or read book Souvenirs from the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria written by Richard and Susan Wales and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A flavour of this book ... This small disk is called Carmichael’s Amulet and it commemorates the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria by the dates 1837 and 1897. These are the dates of her 60 years reign. To the right can be seen a mould that is carved from wood. It seems to have been professionally made in a large block that is well finished and furnished with a hook for hanging up. The mould may have produced butter pats or terrines for a Victorian celebration. As well as the Diamond Jubilee dates it commemorates the Record Reign that Queen Victoria had achieved in 1896 after being monarch for longer than George III. These images were taken by the authors as this book was being written and so they do not appear in the text which summarises an enormous variety of Diamond Jubilee souvenirs. Inside you will find a unique view of Victoriana that was made to celebrate one event at the height of the powers of the British Empire. The souvenirs will give you a glimpse into Victorian creative ingenuity as well as the thinking and beliefs of people in 1897.

Book The American Stationer

Download or read book The American Stationer written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Montreal and Quebec City Colourguide

Download or read book Montreal and Quebec City Colourguide written by Susan Hargrove and published by Formac Publishing Company Limited. This book was released on 2008-04-16 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 4th edition of this in-depth guide to Montreal and Quebec City.

Book Geyer s Stationer

Download or read book Geyer s Stationer written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec

Download or read book Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec written by Brian Young and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History has often ignored the influence in modern Quebec of family dynasties, patriarchy, seigneurial land, and traditional institutions. Following the ascent of four generations from two families through eighteenth-century New France to the onset of the First World War, Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec compares the French Catholic Taschereaus and the Anglican and English-speaking McCords. Consulting private, institutional, and legal archives, Brian Young studies eight family patriarchs. Working as merchants or colonial administrators in the first generation, they became seigneurial proprietors, officeholders, and prelates. The heads of both families used marriage arrangements, land stewardship, and judgeships to position their heirs. Young shows how patriarchy was a central force in both domestic and public life, as well as the ways in which Taschereau and McCord family strategies extended into the marrow of Quebec society through moral authority, influence on national identities, and their positions within senior offices in religious, judicial, and university institutions. Through courthouses, cemeteries, belfries, and their own chapels and neoclassical estates, they created encompassing cultural landscapes. Later generations used museums, archives, historian collaborators, photography, and modern print to elevate family achievement to the status of heroic national narratives. Sagas of the monied and entrepreneurial, nationalist imperatives to protect a vulnerable people, and skepticism about the lasting power of great families and historical institutions have relegated the influence of the Taschereaus and McCords to obscurity. Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec resuscitates the central role these elite families played in English and French Quebec.

Book Industrial Canada

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1076 pages

Download or read book Industrial Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historical Sketch of the Mercantile Library  Philadelphia  and the 93d Annual Report

Download or read book Historical Sketch of the Mercantile Library Philadelphia and the 93d Annual Report written by Mercantile Library of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 39th report, 1862 contains the charter, by-laws, library rules, and list of subscribers and stockholders; the 42d, 1865 and 45th, 1868, List of members; the 46th, 1869, Amended charter; 77th, 1900, List of stockholders with addresses.

Book The Annual index of periodicals   photographs

Download or read book The Annual index of periodicals photographs written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: