Canada category: 4109 books
by Paul Helmer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
During the second half of the twentieth century musical life in Canada flourished as never before due in large measure to a generation of European émigrés who worked to establish a uniquely Canadian culture of classical music teaching playing and composing "in the key of Canada.
Canada and the Second World War
Essays in Honour of Terry Copp
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Terry Copp’s tireless teaching, research, and writing has challenged generations of Canadian veterans, teachers, and students to discover an informed memory of their country’s role in the Second World War. This collection, drawn from the work of Terry’s colleagues and former students, considers...
The Legacies of Fear
Law and Politics in Quebec in the Era of the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Many people assume that a French-English cleavage has always existed and historians have been uncertain as to just how it unfolded. This book provides the answer. Greenwood re-creates a Quebec in which trust between French and English Canadians was an early casualty of the execution of Louis XVI and...
by Sir John G. Bourinot
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1897. "In writing this story of Canada I have not been able to do more, within the limited space at my command, than briefly review those events which have exercised the most influence on the national development of the Dominion of Canada from the memorable days bold French adventurers...
Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada
The 1982 Joanne Goodman Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
Professor Berger aims in this book to ‘explore the rise, expression, and relative decline of the idea of natural history’ in Canada, during the age of Victoria. Science, particularly natural science, was then accessible to the general public in a way scarcely imaginable today. Natural history...
Finding Directions West
Readings that Locate and Dislocate Western Canada’s Past
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
In the past, Western Canada was a place of new directions in human thought and action, migrations of the mind and body, and personal journeys. This book anthology brings together studies exploring the way the west served as a place of constant movement between places of spiritual, subsistence and...
Celebrating Canada
Holidays, National Days, and the Crafting of Identities
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
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 andprovincial holidays...
Viola Desmond
Her Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Many Canadians know that Viola Desmond is the first Black, non-royal woman to be featured on Canadian currency. But fewer know the details of Viola Desmond’s life and legacy. In 1946, Desmond was arrested for refusing to give up her seat in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow,...
Autonomous State
The Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free Trade
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Autonomous State provides the first detailed examination of the Canadian auto industry, the country’s most important economic sector, in the post-war period. In this engrossing book, Dimitry Anastakis chronicles the industry’s evolution from the 1973 OPEC embargo to the 1989 Canada–US Free Trade...
Keeping Promises
The Royal Proclamation of 1763, Aboriginal Rights, and Treaties in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In 1763 King George III of Great Britain, victorious in the Seven Years War with France, issued a proclamation to organize the governance of territory newly acquired by the Crown in North America and the Caribbean. The proclamation reserved land west of the Appalachian Mountains for Indians, and required...
The Capacity To Judge
Public Opinion and Deliberative Democracy in Upper Canada,1791-1854
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
By the mid-nineteenth-century, 'public opinion' emerged as a new form of authority in Upper Canada. Contemporaries came to believe that the best answer to common questions arose from deliberation among private individuals. Older conceptions of government, sociability and the relationship between knowledge...
Fashioning the Canadian Landscape
Essays on Travel Writing, Tourism, and National Identity in the Pre-Automobile Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Interpretations of Canada's emerging identity have been largely based on a relatively small corpus of literary writing and landscape paintings, overlooking the influence of the British and American travel writers who published hundreds of books and articles that did much to fix the image of Canada...
Armies of Peace
Canada and the UNRRA Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was the first international organization to be established after the Second World War, and Canada played a key role in its formation. Formal studies of UNRRA, however, have tended to focus on inter-governmental political and economic...
by Sue Methuen
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The year is 1913. Louisa and her husband Fred, along with their young daughter, leave the only place they have ever known to travel across the ocean to an unknown land. They leave because of hardships endured for so many years in England. Their hope for a better life in Canada gives them the courage...