Download or read book Celebrating Canada written by Mathew Hayday and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holidays are a key to helping us understand the transformation of national, regional, community and ethnic identities. In Celebrating Canada, Matthew Hayday and Raymond Blake situate Canada in an international context as they examine the history and evolution of our national and provincial holidays and annual celebrations. The contributors to this volume examine such holidays as Dominion Day, Victoria Day, Quebec’s Fête Nationale and Canadian Thanksgiving, among many others. They also examine how Canadians celebrate the national days of other countries (like the Fourth of July) and how Dominion Day was observed in the United Kingdom. Drawing heavily on primary source research, and theories of nationalism, identities and invented traditions, the essays in this collection deepen our understanding of how these holidays have influenced the evolution of Canadian identities.
Download or read book Making Public Pasts written by Alan Gordon and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It conscripts historical events in a bid to guide shared memories into a coherent narrative that helps individuals negotiate their place in broader collective identities." "The contest over public memories involves an exclusiveness that packages "other" according to the ideological preferences of the dominant cultures. Gordon shows that in Montreal ethnic, class, and gender voices strove to stake their own claims to legitimacy."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book World Days written by Zoltan Szucs and published by Szűcs Zoltán. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of World Days and International Action Days. List and descriptions of world days. Indicating the date, name and description of the day. "This list includes World Days and International Days of Action, ie annual, global or multi-country celebrations and awareness-raising days proclaimed by various international organizations on a current topic: eg UN Thematic Awareness Days, Trade Day Days and other one-day events. , events of international significance. "
Download or read book The International Holiday Festival Primer written by David DeRocco and published by Full Blast Productions. This book was released on 1996 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Holiday & Festival Primer is a two book series of reproducible low level ESL/EFL/Literacy reading and discussion texts. The books are designed to help people learn about holy days and cultural festivals celebrated on this planet. These books are a very good tool to help promote cultural awareness and cultural understanding! 17 important holy days, at least one from each major religion, are explained. The rest of the essays are about cultural festivals, world-wide observances, national holidays, regional holidays and more.
Download or read book The Cur D Ars written by Francis Trochu and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Self culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Quebec For Dummies written by Éric Bédard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grasp the unique history of Quebec? Easy. Packing in equal parts fun and facts, History of Quebec For Dummies is an engaging and entertaining guide to the history of Canada's second-largest province, covering the conflicts, cultures, ideas, politics, and social changes that have shaped Quebec as we know it today. "My country isn't a country, it is winter!" sings the poet Gilles Vigneault . . . Indeed, Quebec is winter, snow, cold, and freezing winds. It is also the majestic river Saint-Laurent and its numerous confluences across America. It is vast, dense forests, countless lakes, magnificent landscapes of Saguenay, Charlevoix, Côte-Nord, or Gaspésie. Quebec is also the "old capital" perched on the Cape Diamond facing the sea. It is Montreal, the first French city of North America, the creative and innovative metropolis, junction for different cultures and heart of a nation yearning to belong to the world's history. History of Quebec For Dummies tells Quebec's fascinating story from the early fifteen hundreds to the present, highlighting the culture, language, and traditions of Canada's second-largest province. Serves as the ideal starting place to learn about Quebec Covers the latest, up-to-the-minute findings in historical research Explores the conflicts, cultures, ideas, politics, and social changes in Quebec Lifelong learners and history buffs looking for a fun-yet-factual introduction to the grand scope of Quebec history will find everything they need in History of Quebec For Dummies.
Download or read book NFB Kids written by Brian J. Low and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a society that exists solely in cinema — this book explores exactly that. Using a half-century of films from the archival collection of the National Film Board, NFB Kids: Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-1989 overcomes a long-standing impasse about what films may be credibly said to document. Here they document not “reality,” but social images preserved over time — the “NFB Society” — an evolving, cinematic representation of Canadian families, schools and communities. During the postwar era, this society-in-cinema underwent a profound change in its child rearing and schooling philosophies, embracing “modern” notions based upon principles espoused by the American mental hygiene movement. Soon after the introduction of these psychological principles into NFB homes in 1946 and schools in 1956, there was a subtle transformation in adult-child relations, which progressively, over time, narrowed the gulf of power between generations and diminished the socializing roles of the NFB parents and teachers. NFB Kids is a pioneering study within a new field of academic research — “cinema ethnography.” It adds to the growing body of knowledge about the function, and the considerable impact of, psychiatry and psychology in the post-war social reconstruction of Canadian society and social history. It will be of interest to academics over a broad spectrum of disciplines and to anyone thinking about the advancing arbitrary power of the cinematic state.
Download or read book Annual Report on Labour Organization in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on Labour Organizations in Canada written by Canada. Department of Labour and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book written by Гапонів Алекс and published by Нова Книга. This book was released on with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Друге, оновлене, видання першого вітчизняного підручника з лінгвокраїнознавства англомовних регіонів складається з 14 розділів, кожний з яких присвячується окремій країні (Англія, Шотландія, Уельс, Північна Ірландія та Республіка Ірландія, США, Канада, Австралія, Нова Зеландія, острів Мен) або їх окремим адміністративним одиницям (Гаваї, Аляска, Тасманія), які з огляду на географічні, історичні, культурні та інші чинники мають яскраво виражені особливості. Підручник пропонує свіжий погляд на різні аспекти життя цих країн і наводить багато маловідомих у нашій країні фактів з різних аспектів духовної та матеріальної культури англомовних націй. Рекомендується для студентів фахових факультетів вищих навчальних закладів України, фахівців-лінгвістів, а також усіх тих, хто хоче поглибити свої знання з різних аспектів життя країн, мова яких вивчається.
Download or read book Strangers and Sojourners written by Arthur W. Thurner and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Thurner tells of the enormous struggle of the diverse immigrants who built and sustained energetic towns and communities, creating a lively civilization in what was essentially a forest wilderness. Their story is one of incredible economic success and grim tragedy in which mine workers daily risked their lives. By highlighting the roles women, African Americans, and Native Americans played in the growth of the Keweenaw community, Thurner details a neglected and ignored past. The history of Keweenaw Peninsula for the past one hundred and fifty years reflects contemporary American culture--a multicultural, pluralistic, democratic welfare state still undergoing evolution. Strangers and Sojourners, with its integration of social and economic history, for the first time tells the complete story of the people from the Keweenaw Peninsula's Baraga, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon counties.
Download or read book Founding Fathers written by Ronald Rudin and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based largely upon the archival documents left behind by the lay and ecclesiastical leaders who organized the celebrations of Champlain and Laval, Ronald Rudin's study describes the complicated process of staging these spectacles.
Download or read book Self Culture a Monthly Devoted to the Interests of the Home University League written by Edward Cornelius Toune and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Lakes at Ten Miles an Hour written by Thomas Shevory and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Lakes are a remarkable repository of millions of years of complex geological transformations and of a considerably shorter, crowded span of human history. Over the course of four summers, Thomas Shevory rode a bicycle along their shores, taking in the stories the lakes tell—of nature’s grandeur and decay, of economic might and squandered promise, of exploration, colonization, migration, and military adventure. This book is Shevory’s account of his travels, shored up by his exploration of the geological, environmental, historical, and cultural riches harbored by North America’s great inland seas. For Shevory, and his readers, his ride is an enlightening, unfailingly engaging course in the Great Lakes’ place in geological time and the nation’s history. Along the northern shore of Lake Huron, one encounters the scrubbed surfaces of the Canadian Shield, the oldest exposed rock in North America. Growing out of the crags of the Niagara Escarpment, which stretches from the western reaches of Lake Michigan to the spectacular waterfalls between Erie and Ontario, are the white cedars that are among the oldest trees east of the Mississippi. The lakes offer reminders of the fur trade that drew voyageurs to the interior, the disruption of Native American cultures, major battles of the War of 1812, the shipping and logging industries that built the Midwest, the natural splendors preserved and exploited, and the urban communities buoyed or buried by economic changes over time. Throughout The Great Lakes at Ten Miles an Hour, Shevory describes the engaging characters he encounters along the way and the surprising range of country and city landscapes, bustling and serene locales that he experiences, making us true companions on his ride.
Download or read book Roads to Confederation written by Jacqueline D. Krikorian and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recognition of Canada’s sesquicentennial, this two-volume set brings together previously published scholarship on Confederation into one collection. The editors sought to reproduce not only the "classic" studies about the people, ideas, and events associated with the passage of the British North America Act, 1867, but also scholarly works that capture the complexities of the Confederation project. This ambitious anthology challenges the notion that there exists one dominant narrative underpinning 1867, and includes research that focuses on Indigenous peoples. Seven articles written in French are translated for the first time for publication in this collection. In the first volume of this anthology, Roads to Confederation introduces readers to the competing approaches to the study of Confederation and provides material that considers the nature of the 1867 project from the perspective of peoples and communities who have been traditionally excluded from the literature. It also includes the definitive scholarship on the ideational underpinnings of the making of Canada as well as several leading articles that set out different ways to understand the nature and purpose of the 1867 agreement.
Download or read book The Social History of Ideas in Quebec 1760 1896 written by Yvan Lamonde and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first synthesis of the history of ideas over a century in Quebec.
