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Book MacKenzie Papineau Battalion

Download or read book MacKenzie Papineau Battalion written by Victor Howard and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1987-06-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the 50th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War, this is the story of the Canadians who went to fight in that epic conflict.

Book Hello Canada

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  • Author : Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of the International Brigade (Canada)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1937
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 46 pages

Download or read book Hello Canada written by Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of the International Brigade (Canada) and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mackenzie Papineau Battalion

Download or read book The Mackenzie Papineau Battalion written by Victor Hoar and published by Carleton University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mac Pap

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  • Author : Ronald Liversedge
  • Publisher : New Star Books
  • Release : 2013-09-05
  • ISBN : 1554200784
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Mac Pap written by Ronald Liversedge and published by New Star Books. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ron Liversedge could hardly wait for the call from the International Brigades. A veteran of the Great War, Canada's Great Depression, and scores of battles for social justice, he wanted to get to Spain to fight against Franco's attack on the young Spanish republic. It was the spring of 1937; Liversedge was nearly 40. The call came on May Day. Liversedge left Vancouver, on a clandestine journey through late depression North America, to a ship spiriting his fellow fighters to Europe, to an immediate brush with death when he is torpedoed by a fascist submarine, to rudimentary training of the international volunteers in Spain. Ill prepared and ill equipped, Liversedge in the Mackenzie Papineau battalion are thrown into withering front line action at Fuentes de Ebro and a grinding succession of battles, steadily beaten back by the fascist onslaught, to the final exodus from Barcelona. Liversedge's memoir of those two years, written in the 1960's, is a riveting, soldier's-eye account of life and death at the front, of the fascinating panoply of characters drawn to the Spanish struggle, of the ravages of the war on Spain and its people, and of the reasons that drove thousands of Canadians to volunteer. After almost half a century, Ronald Liversedge's illuminating account, richly annotated and illustrated, appears for the first time.

Book Hello Canada  Canada s Mackenzie Papineau Battalion  1837 1937

Download or read book Hello Canada Canada s Mackenzie Papineau Battalion 1837 1937 written by Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Renegades

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  • Author : Michael Petrou
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2008-03-01
  • ISBN : 0774858281
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Renegades written by Michael Petrou and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1936 and 1939, almost 1,700 Canadians defied their government and volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War. They left behind punishing lives in Canadian relief camps, mines, and urban flophouses to confront fascism in a country few knew much about. Michael Petrou has drawn on recently declassified archival material, interviewed surviving Canadian veterans, and visited the battlefields of Spain to write the definitive account of Canadians in the Spanish Civil War. Renegades is an intimate and unflinching story of idealism and courage, duplicity and defeat.

Book Fighting for Democracy

Download or read book Fighting for Democracy written by Jim Higgins and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Higgins defied Canadian law to fight for democracy in the Spanish Civil War. On return, he was branded a communist, hounded by the RCMP, and welcomed by Lincoln Battalion comrades when he sought refuge in New York. Jim was born in London in 1907, schooled in Manchester and Bristol, and sailed to Canada at twenty-one. During the Great Depression, employers blacklisted him for union organizing, the RCMP added him to their radical files for relief camp “agitating,” and he was jailed briefly when the Regina Riot ended the On-To-Ottawa Trek. By 1937, he was with the International Brigades in Spain; a machine gunner in the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion—the Mac-Paps. Forty years later, he was found by Manuel Alvarez, a boy whose life he’d saved during the bombing of Corbera d’Ebre. Manuel’s 1980 book, The Tall Soldier (El Soldado Alto), paid tribute. The RCMP saw Jim Higgins as a radical, people whose lives he saved saw him as a hero, and for one of his actions in Spain he was described as “extraordinarily brave.” Jim Higgins saw himself as an anti-fascist, a social democrat, and an independent thinker. Readers will form their own opinions.

Book The Mackenzie Papineau Battalion in Spain

Download or read book The Mackenzie Papineau Battalion in Spain written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hello Canada

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  • Author : Friends of the Mackenzie Papineau Battalion
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1937
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 46 pages

Download or read book Hello Canada written by Friends of the Mackenzie Papineau Battalion and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canadian Volunteers

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  • Author : William Beeching
  • Publisher : [Regina] : Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Canadian Volunteers written by William Beeching and published by [Regina] : Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina. This book was released on 1989 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 40,000 women and men from many countries went to Spain in 1936 to join the Spanish Republican army. About 1,440 Canadians formed part of the International Brigade. This document presents an account of the participation of Canadian volunteers in the Spanish civil war.

Book Seeing Red

Download or read book Seeing Red written by Trisha Turner and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canada and the Civil War in Spain

Download or read book Canada and the Civil War in Spain written by John A. Munro and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canada s Mackenzie Papineau Battalion

Download or read book Canada s Mackenzie Papineau Battalion written by A. E. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Chance to Fight Hitler

Download or read book A Chance to Fight Hitler written by David Goutor and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 1936, as Franco’s armies stormed toward Madrid, Stalin famously termed the defence of Spain “the common cause of all advanced and progressive mankind.” As a German emigrant to Winnipeg, Hans Ibing recognized the importance of the Spanish Civil War to the struggle against worldwide fascism in a way that most people in Canada did not—joining the International Brigades in their fight to defend the Spanish Republic was his “chance to fight Hitler.” Drawing on interviews, Ibing’s personal papers, and archival material, David Goutor recounts the powerful story of an ordinary man’s response to extraordinary times.

Book Canadian Responses to the MacKenzie Papineau Battalion  1936 1939

Download or read book Canadian Responses to the MacKenzie Papineau Battalion 1936 1939 written by Martin Henry Peter Lobigs and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canada In The World

Download or read book Canada In The World written by Tyler A. Shipley and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-25T00:00:00Z with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and empirically rich introduction to Canada’s engagements in the world since confederation, this book charts a unique path by locating Canada’s colonial foundations at the heart of the analysis. Canada in the World begins by arguing that the colonial relations with Indigenous peoples represent the first example of foreign policy, and demonstrates how these relations became a foundational and existential element of the new state. Colonialism—the project to establish settler capitalism in North America and the ideological assumption that Europeans were more advanced and thus deserved to conquer the Indigenous people—says Shipley, lives at the very heart of Canada. Through a close examination of Canadian foreign policy, from crushing an Indigenous rebellion in El Salvador, “peacekeeping” missions in the Congo and Somalia, and Cold War interventions in Vietnam and Indonesia, to Canadian participation in the War on Terror, Canada in the World finds that this colonial heart has dictated Canada’s actions in the world since the beginning. Highlighting the continuities across more than 150 years of history, Shipley demonstrates that Canadian policy and behaviour in the world is deep-rooted, and argues that changing this requires rethinking the fundamental nature of Canada itself.