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Book Pictures Of Canadian Life

Download or read book Pictures Of Canadian Life written by J. Ewing Ritchie and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lunching one day in Toronto with one of the aldermen of that thriving city (I may as well frankly state that we had turtle-soup on the occasion), he remarked that he had been in London the previous summer, and that he was perfectly astonished at the idea Englishmen seemed to have about Canada. He was particularly indignant at the way in which it was coolly assumed that the Canadians were a barbarous people, planted in a wilderness, ignorant of civilization, deficient in manners and customs a well-meaning people, of whom in the course of ages something might be made, but at present in a very nebulous and unsatisfactory state. It seems my worthy friend had gone to hear a popular Q.C. a gentleman of Liberal proclivities, very anxious to write M. after his name deliver a lecture to the young men of the Christian Association in Exeter Hall on Canada. Never was a man more mortified in all his life than was the alderman in question. All the time the lecture was being delivered, he said, he held down his head in shame. „I felt,‟ said he, rising to a climax, „as if I must squirm!‟ What „squirming‟ implies the writer candidly admits that he has no idea. Of course, it means something very bad. All he can say is, that it is his hope and prayer that in the following pages he may set no Canadian squirming. He went out to see the nakedness, or the reverse, of the land, to ask the emigrants how they were getting on, to judge for himself whether it was worth any Englishman‟s while to leave home and friends to cross the Atlantic and plant himself on the vast extent of prairie stretching between Winnipeg and the Rocky Mountains. What he heard and saw is contained in the following pages, originally published in the Christian World, and now reproduced as a small contribution to a question which rises in importance with the increase of population and the growing difficulty of getting a living at home.

Book Pictures of Canadian Life  A Record of Actual Experiences

Download or read book Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences written by J. Ewing Ritchie and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Pictures of Canadian Life: A Record of Actual Experiences" by J. Ewing Ritchie. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book Destinations of a Lifetime

Download or read book Destinations of a Lifetime written by National Geographic Society (U.S.) and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Plan where, when, and how to plot your adventure with National Geographic's worldwide network of travel experts and insider tips from locals"--Cover.

Book The Official Picture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carol Payne
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2013-06-01
  • ISBN : 0773588949
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book The Official Picture written by Carol Payne and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mandated to foster a sense of national cohesion The National Film Board of Canada's Still Photography Division was the country's official photographer during the mid-twentieth century. Like the Farm Security Administration and other agencies in the US, the NFB used photographs to serve the nation. Division photographers shot everything from official state functions to images of the routine events of daily life, producing some of the most dynamic photographs of the time, seen by millions of Canadians - and international audiences - in newspapers, magazines, exhibitions, and filmstrips. In The Official Picture, Carol Payne argues that the Still Photography Division played a significant role in Canadian nation-building during WWII and the two decades that followed. Payne examines key images, themes, and periods in the Division's history - including the depiction of women munitions workers, landscape photography in the 1950s and 60s, and portraits of Canadians during the Centennial in 1967 - to demonstrate how abstract concepts of nationhood and citizenship, as well as attitudes toward gender, class, linguistic identity, and conceptions of race were reproduced in photographs. The Official Picture looks closely at the work of many Division photographers from staff members Chris Lund and Gar Lunney during the 1940s and 1950s to the expressive documentary photography of Michel Lambeth, Michael Semak, and Pierre Gaudard, in the 1960s and after. The Division also produced a substantial body of Northern imagery documenting Inuit and Native peoples. Payne details how Inuit groups have turned to the archive in recent years in an effort to reaffirm their own cultural identity. For decades, the Still Photography Division served as the country's image bank, producing a government-endorsed "official picture" of Canada. A rich archival study, The Official Picture brings the hisotry of the Division, long overshadowed by the Board's cinematic divisions, to light.

Book Canadian Moving Picture Digest

Download or read book Canadian Moving Picture Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book I Am Canada

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  • Author : Heather Patterson
  • Publisher : Scholastic Canada
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 144316304X
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book I Am Canada written by Heather Patterson and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2017 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful picture book featuring artwork by Canada's finest illustrators -- a true-north tribute to our nation and its children, from coast to coast to coast! Simple text describes the ample space available to our children in this country, and the freedom they have to grow and dream and share. With artwork from 13 of Canada's finest illustrators, each page is a celebration and a reminder of the infinite variety of our home and native land. Heather Patterson's free verse poem I Am Canada, originally published in 1996, gets new life in this beautiful, illustrated hardcover timed to celebrate both Canada's 150th year and Scholastic Canada's 60th anniversary.

Book Life s Real Romance  A Picture from Life from 1838 to 1883

Download or read book Life s Real Romance A Picture from Life from 1838 to 1883 written by Arthur N Howard and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Book The Athenaeum

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Silk Buckingham
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 820 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Agricultural and Industrial Progress in Canada

Download or read book Agricultural and Industrial Progress in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book LIFE

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1944-07-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1944-07-03 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Book Canada and Its Provinces

Download or read book Canada and Its Provinces written by Adam Shortt and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early Cinema and the  National

Download or read book Early Cinema and the National written by Richard Abel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-17 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on “how motion pictures in the first two decades of the 20th century constructed ‘communities of nationality’ . . . recommended.” —Choice While many studies have been written on national cinemas, Early Cinema and the “National” is the first anthology to focus on the concept of national film culture from a wide methodological spectrum of interests, including not only visual and narrative forms, but also international geopolitics, exhibition and marketing practices, and pressing linkages to national imageries. The essays in this richly illustrated landmark anthology are devoted to reconsidering the nation as a framing category for writing cinema history. Many of the 34 contributors show that concepts of a national identity played a role in establishing the parameters of cinema’s early development, from technological change to discourses of stardom, from emerging genres to intertitling practices. Yet, as others attest, national meanings could often become knotty in other contexts, when concepts of nationhood were contested in relation to colonial/imperial histories and regional configurations. Early Cinema and the “National” takes stock of a formative moment in cinema history, tracing the beginnings of the process whereby nations learned to imagine themselves through moving images.

Book Canada and it s Provinces

Download or read book Canada and it s Provinces written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tall Tales Long Lenses

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  • Author : John E. Marriott
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9781894768054
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Tall Tales Long Lenses written by John E. Marriott and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Literary World

Download or read book The Literary World written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canada and Its Provinces  Missions  arts and letters

Download or read book Canada and Its Provinces Missions arts and letters written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spectator

Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 2288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: