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This study focuses on the economic and social impact of the pottery industry, both locally and nationally. Drawing on the rich primary sources of company records and catalogues, existing factory buildings and equipment, photographs and newspaper accounts, this book...
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Mercury-Mercure
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2001-01-01
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What did happen to the body of Thomas Scott? The disposal of the body of Canadian history’s most famous political victim is the starting point for historian J.M. Bumsted’s new look at some of the most fascinating events and personalities of Manitoba’s Red River...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2000-11-17
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Manitoba has been at the crossroads of many of the important debates and events in Canadian history. From the early fur trade to the Riel Rebellion to the Winnipeg General Strike, Manitobans have frequently played crucial roles in Canadian and sometimes world history....
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
1999-12-10
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In the snowy predawn of February 18, 1942, a convoy of three American ships zigzagged up the North Atlantic toward Newfoundland, heading for one of the worst disasters in naval history.
The ships were under radio silence to protect their position from the threat of...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
1999-08-26
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The Meta Incognita Project was initiated to cast new light on the Arctic voyages of Martin Frobisher and their significance for the histories of North America and Britain. Although the Elizabethan venture failed to discover a northwest passage to mines and precious...
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Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1999-01-01
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The Meta Incognita Project was initiated to cast new light on the Arctic voyages of Martin Frobisher and their significance for the histories of North America and Britain. Although the Elizabethan venture failed to discover a northwest passage to mines and precious...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1999-01-01
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This is a collection of true Newfoundland and Labrador stories about crime and punishment on land and sea. Included here are tales of murder, mutiny, and smuggling on the high seas, as well as riots, assaults, and frauds perpetrated in some of the strangest criminal...
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Flanker Press
Parution :
1997-07-01
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Diaries, a book of remedies and recipes, and descriptions of the house and possessions of Eliza Cox Carter illuminate the life and times of a woman who was simultaneously a sea captain’s wife, a New Brunswick homemaker, and an unlicensed healer. These writings recorded...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1997-01-01
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Separated from its origins in the Old World, east Christian iconography in Canada has come to enjoy a popular following from coast to coast. With its fourteen chapters the present volume documents this living tradition from a variety of perspectives to offer the first...
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Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1996-01-01
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The centenary of Doukhobor settlement in Canada (1899-1999) marks a unique chapter in the story of this country and its peoples. Twenty-six contributors from Canada, Russia, Japan and the United States offer important insights into the legacy of the Doukhobors with...
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Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1995-01-01
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Religious ceremonies were an inseparable part of Aboriginal traditional life, reinforcing social, economic, and political values. However, missionaries and government officials with ethnocentric attitudes of cultural superiority decreed that Native dances and ceremonies...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
1994-10-28
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What was it like for young immigrant girls growing up in the lumber camps and mining towns of northern Ontario in the 1920s? How did teenagers in Canada cope with the Great Depression of the “Dirty Thirties”?What did young women on the home front do during World War II...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1994-01-01
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The authors of this volume attempt to describe the relationship between history as a field of study and museums as vehicles for the presentation of historical discourse.The development of history museums, the way in which exhibits are created, the manner in which...
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Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1994-01-01
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This detailed examination of wooden shipbuilding on Prince Edward Island traces the industry’s cycles of prosperity and decline, and describes the types of vessels built, production profiles and market orientation. Accounts of shipbuilding at the community level reveal...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1994-01-01
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The Meta Incognita Project investigates Martin Frobisher’s Arctic expeditions of 1576-1578 (which included the first English attempt to establish a colony in Canada and mine its mineral resources) and their effects on the culture of the Inuit he encountered. This report...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1993-01-01
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Martin Frobisher led three voyages to the Canadian Arctic between 1576 and 1578. He initially sought the Northwest Passage to Cathay, but his voyages became Canada’s first “gold rush” when gold was reported after his first trip. Sadly, the Arctic ore proved worthless,...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1993-01-01
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During the four decades following the Second World War, the Royal Military College of Canada has adapted to the need to produce professional career officers by evolving into an academic centre of excellence and one of the country's leading universities. Along the way,...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
1991-01-01
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The first economic, military, and diplomatic history of the Plains Cree from contact with the Europeans in the 1670s to the disappearance of the buffalo from Cree lands by the 1870s, focussing on military and trade relations between 1790 and 1870.
Milloy describes three...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
1990-05-01
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Ukrainians first came to Canada a century ago, seeking a new life on the western prairies. They brought with them an ancient and rich cultural tradition, deeply rooted in Christianity. The most visible symbol of this tradition is the Ukrainian church with its...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
1990-04-01
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This volume portrays aspects of Canadian social history through the presentation of artifacts from the exhibition “A Coat of Many Colours: Two Centuries of Jewish Life in Canada”. The experiences of Jewish Canadians as recorded in the artifact labels poignantly...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1990-01-01
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