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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...
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Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1990-01-01
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The major themes in this volume are the rise of Winnipeg to world curling prominence in the nineteenth century and the persistence of that prominence in the twentieth.
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
1989-01-15
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Margaret Gray Lord was the second daughter of Father of Confederation, John Hamilton Gray, and the wife of Artemas Lord. The diaries portray the social life of a Victorian lady living in Prince Edward Island and cover her transition from a life of gentility in a British...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
1988-01-01
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These oral histories, collected by Marius Barbeau and William Beynon from the Pacific Northwest reflect the Tsimshian relationship with the environment, their understanding of the spiritual universe and their interpretation of the physical world. Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1987-01-01
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These oral histories, collected by Marius Barbeau and William Beynon from the Pacific Northwest reflect the Tsimshian relationship with the environment, their understanding of the spiritual universe and their interpretation of the physical world. Published in English.
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1987-01-01
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This book provides a synthesis of social, demographic and economic change in Quebec City during the British regime, a period which saw the former French capital transformed into an English city with all the problems associated with rapidly growing urban centres....
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Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1987-01-01
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This bibliography of archival sources on the history of women in Manitoba, includes material pre-1867 right until 1970s. It categories sources into general three parts focussed on identity, work and activities, and mentality, faith, and reform. Exploring women from...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
1987-01-01
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Leading Canadian and American scholars explore the dimension and meaning of the intermingling of European and Native American peoples.
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
1985-11-01
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This volume consists of a general inventory of Marius Barbeau’s Northwest Coast Files and related material from the Barbeau collection. Published in English.
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1985-01-01
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W.E. Knowles Middleton, continuing his series of books on the history of the National Research Council of Canada, here presents a history of the challenges, defeats and triumphs of mechanical engineering at the Council. Throughout much of the history of the National...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
1984-04-12
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The essays that comprise this volume clearly demonstrate that coalitions have dramatically altered the shape of war. Paul Kennedy's overview of coalitions over the past century shows that, with coalitions firmly established as viable in the minds of strategists, wars...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
1984-03-09
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This volume contains biographies of over four hundred architects, artisans and builders who worked in Quebec during the first three centuries of the town’s existence. Detailed descriptions of their works, as well as numerous illustrations, help paint a broad picture of...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1984-01-01
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A thoughtful account of life on a reserve and of the interaction of Native people with White society, this volume is based on the author’s three years’ experience with one Indian band on the prairie, during a period in which there were intense negotiations between the...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
1984-01-01
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Comparing Jacques Cartier’s Voyages with the fictional explorations of Rabelais’ Pantagruel, Marius Barbeau is able to demonstrate that it is the latter work which most influenced perceptions of the Americas at the French court of François I. Published in English.
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1984-01-01
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The history of Kitchener is unique among cities in southern Ontario. Although Kitchener shares so much of the character of the region today, its past was considerably different. Until 1916, Kitchener was Berlin, “Canada’s German capital.” Over two-thirds of the...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
1983-10-18
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This book constitutes a major and comprehensive reevaluation of British defence policy in the early 1930s.The author traces the evolution of British opinion toward rearmament, from opposition to approval, between 1931 and 1935 and assesses the impact of this opinion on...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
1983-03-09
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This book provides a brief but sweeping treatment of the history of resource use in Canada. Subjects discussed include attitudes of the Native peoples and the colonists towards the environment, exploration, fishing, the fur trade, the timber industry, mining,...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1983-01-01
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This volume is woven around the idea that wholeness (the firm) and fragmentation (risking formlessness) alternate in human affairs.This theme is applied to the history and the present condition of Australian Aboriginals. Their religion is seen as a way to bolster a...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
1982-12-01
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Religion and Identity
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Allan Sullivan wrote over forty works of popular fiction between 1890 and 1940; today it is difficult to find even one copy of many of these works. A well-known and widely read author in the first half of this century, Sullivan wrote thrillers, historical romance,...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
1982-07-15
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This is a revisionist account of Highland Scottish emigration to what is now Canada, in the formative half century before Waterloo.
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
1982-01-15
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