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Gwendolyn Poole Molnar’s recollections offer us a rare look into the life of a child growing up in Pilley’s Island in the first decades of the twentieth century, before roads, electricity, and telephones connected the island community to its Newfoundland neighbours....
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2009-08-21
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“In this book, Professor D.N. Sprague tells why the Métis did not receive the land that was supposed to be theirs under the Manitoba Act.... Sprague offers many examples of the methods used, such as legislation justifying the sale of the land allotted to Métis children...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-08-10
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In 1949, Margaret Norquay moved with her new husband, a minister with the United Church of Canada, to Mayerthorpe, in northern Alberta, a village in the centre of what was in those days a pioneer hinterland. Broad Is the Way is a collection of stories from their seven...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-08-03
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Life Writing
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Victoria’s Chinatown is Canada’s oldest Chinese neighbourhood and has a lineage unbroken since 1858. With large-format colour photos and photocollages, Robert Amos and Kileasa Wong take you behind the doors of the 29 private clubs that make up the Chinese Consolidated...
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Touchwood Editions
Parution :
2009-08-01
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This lively guide to Quebec history tells the fascinating story of the settlement of the St. Lawrence River Valley over nearly 500 years. But it also tells of the Montreal and Quebec-based explorers and traders who travelled, mapped, and inhabited most of North America,...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2009-07-01
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At the turn of the nineteenth century, Saskatchewan was one of the fastest growing provinces in the country. In the early 1900s, it revolutionized the Canadian political landscape and gave rise to socialist governments that continue to influence Canadian politics today....
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2008-11-01
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In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the Public Service...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2008-09-13
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The Ryan's Commander capsized off Spillars Cove, near Bonavista, on September 19, 2004. In the tragic wreck, two brothers were lost: Dave and Joe “June” Ryan. A federal report concluded that vessel design was one of the factors causing the capsizing.The family of the...
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2008-09-03
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You think you’ve heard everything about Newfoundland and Labrador, but…
Have you had a meal of padre?
Have you ever seen a shalandi?
Have you heard of basket soup?
Would you find the term dry dough offensive?
You’ve tried figgy duff, but have you eaten cod...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2008-04-15
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The West was a lawless domain when Jerry Potts was born into the Upper Missouri fur trade in 1838.The son of a Scottish father and a Blood mother, he was given the name Bear Child by his Blood tribe for his bravery and tenacity while he was still a teen. In 1874, when...
Editeur :
Heritage House
Parution :
2008-02-05
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Diamond Jenness was one of the most outstanding Canadian anthropologists of the early twentieth century. His books, The Indians of Canada and People of the Twilight, are classics. Now, details about the private life of this dedicated scholar are revealed in his own...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
2008-01-01
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My Parents: Memoirs of New World Icelanders is a collection of essays written by second-generation Icelandic immigrants in North America, describing the lives of their parents. Originally collected in 1956 by Dr. Finnbogi Gumundsson, the first Chair of Icelandic at the...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2007-05-01
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In the nineteenth century, the Newfoundland government, under constant pressure from fish merchants, began installing lighthouses in some of the more treacherous places around the island.
In the 1950s, Cabot Island boasted a large lighthouse, with a steady, brilliant...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2007-02-14
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Marius Barbeau (1883-1969) played a vital role in shaping Canadian culture in the twentieth century. Rooted in the premise that his cultural work – in anthropology, fine arts, music, film, folklore studies, fiction, historiography – cannot be read uni-dimensionally, the...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
2007-01-01
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More Than Words features the work of more than twenty scholars from Canada and abroad on post-related topics. Drawing on recent trends in social and cultural history, these new essays address the history and importance of the post from such perspectives as...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
2007-01-01
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This volume presents the 1845 field journal of pioneering geologist Sir William Edmond Logan, written on an expedition up the Ottawa River. The journal is sprinkled with fascinating stories of daily life during the expedition, supplemented with Logan’s sketches. An...
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Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
2007-01-01
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The waters off the east coast of Canada have seen their share of accidents and disasters during the twentieth century. In Newfoundland alone, countless lives have been swallowed up by the angry seas of the North Atlantic or have fallen victim to the devastating effects...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2006-06-28
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The Social Sciences in Canada is about the background and history of the Social Science Federation of Canada in honour of its fifty years of national activity. There can be little doubt that during the last fifty years the federation, and its predecessors, have had a...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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This book is the first collection of scholarly essays to treat the topic of antisemitism in Canada, a complete history of which has yet to be written. Eleven leading thinkers in the field examine antisemitism in Canada, from the colonial era to the present day, in...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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The Faces of Reason traces the history of philosophy in English Canada from 1850 to 1950, examining the major English-Canadian philosophers in detail adn setting them in the context of the main currents of Canadian thought. The book concludes with a brief survey of the...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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