Author: Michael WhelanPublisher:
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Category : Fires
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Great Miramichi Fire of 1825 in Story and Song
Author: Michael WhelanThe Great Miramichi Fire, 1825 ; The Polar Heroes, and Fourteen Other Poems
Author: Michael WhelanPublisher: [Chatham? N.B. : s.n.], 1921 (Chatham, N.B. : Gazette)
ISBN:
Category : Fires
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Miramichi Fire
Author: Alan MacEachernPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228002850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
On 7 October 1825, a massive forest fire swept through northeastern New Brunswick, devastating entire communities. When the smoke cleared, it was estimated that the fire had burned across six thousand square miles, one-fifth of the colony. The Miramichi Fire was the largest wildfire ever to occur within the British Empire, one of the largest in North American history, and the largest along the eastern seaboard. Yet despite the international attention and relief efforts it generated, and the ruin it left behind, the fire all but disappeared from public memory by the twentieth century. A masterwork in historical imagination, The Miramichi Fire vividly reconstructs nineteenth-century Canada's greatest natural disaster, meditating on how it was lost to history. First and foremost an environmental history, the book examines the fire in the context of the changing relationships between humans and nature in colonial British North America and New England, while also exploring social memory and the question of how history becomes established, warped, and forgotten. Alan MacEachern explains how the imprecise and conflicting early reports of the fire's range, along with the quick rebound of the forests and economy of New Brunswick, led commentators to believe by the early 1900s that the fire's destruction had been greatly exaggerated. As an exercise in digital history, this book takes advantage of the proliferation of online tools and sources in the twenty-first century to posit an entirely new reading of the past. Resurrecting one of Canada's most famous and yet unexamined natural disasters, The Miramichi Fire traverses a wide range of historical and scientific literatures to bring a more complete story into the light.
Miramichi Papers
Author: W. D. HamiltonPublisher: Fredericton : Micmac-Maliseet Institute, University of New Brunswick
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island
Author: Brown University. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Wherever Green is Worn
Author: Tim Pat CooganPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784975397
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1393
Book Description
The population of Ireland is five million, but 70 million people worldwide call themselves Irish. Here, Tim Pat Coogan travels around the globe to tell their story. Irish emigration first began in the 12th century when the Normans invaded Ireland. Cromwell's terrorist campaign in the 17th century drove many Irish to France and Spain, while Cromwell deported many more to the West Indies and Virginia. Millions left due to the famine and its aftermath between 1845 and 1961. Where did they all go? From the memory of the wild San Patricios Brigade soldiers who deserted the American army during the Mexican War to fight on the side of their fellow Catholics to Australia's Irish Robin Hood: Ned Kelly, Coogan brings the vast reaches of the Irish diaspora to life in this collection of vivid and colourful tales. Rich in characterization and detail, not to mention the great Coogan wit, this is an invaluable volume that belongs on the bookshelf of every Celtophile.
Great Conflagration at Miramichi, in 1825
Author: Thomas Marsten JordanPublisher:
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Category : Fires
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
AMERICAN RECOGNITION OF CANADIAN AUTHORS WRITING IN ENGLISH 1890-1960. (VOLUMES I-II).
Author: Amos Robert RogersPublisher:
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Category : Canadian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Songs of Miramichi
Author: Louise MannyPublisher: Fredericton, N.B. : Brunswick Press
ISBN:
Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description