Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1792
Book Description
Canadiana
Author: National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Government of Canada Publications, Quarterly Catalogue
Author: Acts of the Legislature of the Province of New Brunswick
Author: New BrunswickA Party Politician
Author: Charles Gavan PowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Bibliographie de l'histoire du Québec et du Canada
Author: Paul AubinIncorrigible
Author: Velma DemersonPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554586674
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a “crime” that was compounded by her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child. Sentenced to a home for wayward girls, Demerson was then transferred (along with forty-six other girls) to Torontos Mercer Reformatory for Females. The girls were locked in their cells for twelve hours a day and required to work in the on-site laundry and factory. They also endured suspect medical examinations. When Demerson was finally released after ten months’ incarceration weeks of solitary confinement, abusive medical treatments, and the state’s apprehension of her child, her marriage to her lover resulted in the loss of her citizenship status. This is the story of how Demerson, and so many other girls, were treated as criminals or mentally defective individuals, even though their worst crime might have been only their choice of lover. Incorrigible is a survivor’s narrative. In a period that saw the rise of psychiatry, legislation against interracial marriage, and a populist movement that believed in eradicating disease and sin by improving the purity of Anglo-Saxon stock, Velma Demerson, like many young women, found herself confronted by powerful social forces. This is a history of some of those who fell through the cracks of the criminal code, told in a powerful first-person voice.
Nature and History in Modern Italy
Author: Marco ArmieroPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821419161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Marco Armiero is Senior Researcher at the Italian National Research Council and Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies, Universitat Aut(noma de Barcelona. He has published extensively on-Italian environmental history and edited Views from the South: Environmental Stories from the Mediterranean World. --