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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
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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...
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Mercury-Mercure
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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...
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Mercury-Mercure
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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,...
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Mercury-Mercure
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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,...
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University of Ottawa Press
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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...
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University of Manitoba Press
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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...
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University of Manitoba Press
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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...
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Mercury-Mercure
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Mercury-Mercure
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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
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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
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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.
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University of Manitoba Press
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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.
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Mercury-Mercure
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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
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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...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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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...
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Mercury-Mercure
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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...
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University of Manitoba Press
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1984-01-01
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