Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Rod and Gun in Canada
Author: Forest & Outdoors and Rod & Gun
Author: Miscellaneous Publication
Author: List of the Agricultural Periodicals of the United States and Canada Published During the Century July 1810 to July 1910
Author: Emma Beatrice HawksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This list of agricultural periodicals of the United States and Canada does not represent a complete list.
Nipissing
Author: Françoise NoëlPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459724402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The Lake Nipissing area is best known as a voyageur route between the Ottawa River and Georgian Bay visited by explorers, missionaries, and fur traders. All of these travellers, however, were on a journey elsewhere. This book focuses on the less well-known story of the area's transformation into a tourist destination between 1875 and 1955.
Arming and Disarming
Author: R. Blake BrownPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 144264639X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
From the École Polytechnique shootings of 1989 to the political controversy surrounding the elimination of the federal long-gun registry, the issue of gun control has been a subject of fierce debate in Canada. But in fact, firearm regulation has been a sharply contested issue in the country since Confederation. Arming and Disarming offers the first comprehensive history of gun control in Canada from the colonial period to the present. In this sweeping, immersive book, R. Blake Brown outlines efforts to regulate the use of guns by young people, punish the misuse of arms, impose licensing regimes, and create firearm registries. Brown also challenges many popular assumptions about Canadian history, suggesting that gun ownership was far from universal during much of the colonial period, and that many nineteenth century lawyers including John A. Macdonald believed in a limited right to bear arms. Arming and Disarming provides a careful exploration of how social, economic, cultural, legal, and constitutional concerns shaped gun legislation and its implementation, as well as how these factors defined Canada's historical and contemporary 'gun culture.'
Mémoires Et Comptes Rendus de la Société Royale Du Canada
Author: Royal Society of CanadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada
Author: Royal Society of CanadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
The Culture of Hunting in Canada
Author: Jean L. ManorePublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774840064
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Culture of Hunting in Canada covers elements of the history of hunting from the pre-colonial period until the present in all parts of Canada and features essays by practitioners and scholars of hunting and by pro- and anti-hunting lobbyists. The result crosses the boundaries between scholarship and personal reflection, and between academia and advocacy. Topics include hunting identities; conservation and its relationship to hunting; tensions between hunters and non-hunters and between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal hunting groups; hunting ethics; debates over hunting practices and regulations; animal rights; and gun control. This book makes an unprecedented contribution to the study of hunting in Canada and its role in our culture.
Wild Things
Author: Patricia JasenPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802076386
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Europeans in the nineteenth century were fascinated with the wild and the primitive. So compelling was the craving for a first-hand experience of wilderness that it provided a lasting foundation for tourism as a consumer industry. In this book, Patricia Jasen shows how the region now known as Ontario held special appeal for tourists seeking to indulge a passion for wild country or act out their fantasies of primitive life. Niagara Falls, the Thousand Islands, Muskoka, and the far reaches of Lake Superior all offered the experiences tourists valued most: the tranquil pleasures of the picturesque, the excitement of the sublime, and the sensations of nostalgia associated with Canada's disappearing wilderness. Jasen situates her work within the context of recent writings about tourism history and the semiotics of tourism, about landscape perception and images of `wildness' and `wilderness, ' and about the travel narrative as a literary genre. She explores a number of major themes, including the imperialistic appropriation and commercialization of landscape into tourist images, services, and souvenirs. In a study of class, gender, and race, Jasen finds that by the end of the century, most workers still had little opportunity for travel, while the middle classes had come to regard holidays as a right and a duty in light of Social Darwinist concerns about preserving the health of the `race.' Women travellers have been disregarded or marginalized in many studies of the history of tourism, but this book makes their presence known and analyses their experience. It also examines, against the backdrop of nineteenth-century racism and expansionism, the major role played by Native people in the tourist industry. The first book to explore the cultural foundations of tourism in Ontario, Wild Things also makes a major contribution to the literature on the wilderness ideal in North America.