Author: Robert SellarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Tragedy of Quebec
Author: Robert SellarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Tragedy of Quebec: the Expulsion of Its Protestant Farmers
Author: Robert SellarPublisher: Ontario Press
ISBN:
Category : Anglican Communion
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The Tragedy of Quebec
Author: Robert SellarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Because They Were Women
Author: Josée BoileauPublisher: Second Story Press
ISBN: 1772601438
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Fourteen young women, murdered because they were women, are memorialized in this definitive account of the tragic day that forced a reckoning with violence against women in our culture. The victims of what became known as the “Montreal Massacre” are remembered, their lives cut short on December 6, 1989 when a man entered École Polytechnique and systematically shot every young woman he encountered. The killer was motivated by a misogyny whose roots go far beyond one man and one day. This book examines how December 6 precipitated an entire cultural shift in thinking around gender-based violence.
The Tragedy of Quebec
Author: Robert SellarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Canadian Magazine
Author: Voice of the Vanishing Minority
Author: Robert HillPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773520110
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Widely regarded as the authentic voice of English-speaking farmers in Quebec, Robert Sellar, editor of the Huntingdon Gleaner, was the most-quoted rural newspaperman in Canada. Voice of the Vanishing Minority recounts Sellar's crusade against the tide of Frenchification that would displace English-speaking people from the townships they had pioneered. As a result of his outspokenness Sellar endured character assassination, physical violence, legal harassment, arson, clerical condemnation, disappointment, and the apathy of the dwindling communities he was defending. His provocative beliefs about Quebec's first "English exodus" - shared by the grass roots but dismissed by politically correct politicians, journalists, and academics as Anglo-Protestant bigotry - cut to the core of the unity crisis already developing in Canada. Book jacket.
The Canadian Magazine
Author: J. Gordon MowatThe Moral Foundations of Canadian Federalism
Author: Samuel Victor LaSelvaPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773514225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
LaSelva offers a compelling reconsideration of Confederation and of the pivotal role of George-Etienne Cartier, one of the Fathers of Confederation, in both the achievement of confederation and the creation of a distinctively Canadian federalist theory.
On Cold Iron
Author: Dan LevertPublisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525562223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
When engineering students in Canada are soon to graduate, the solemn “Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer,” penned by none other than Rudyard Kipling, charges them with their Obligation to high standards, humility, and ethics. Each budding engineer then receives an Iron Ring to be worn on the small finger of the working hand as a reminder throughout their career. Through the story of the 1907 Quebec Bridge disaster, in which seventy-six men died, author Dan Levert teaches a powerful object lesson in what can happen when that Obligation is forgotten. Woven from transcripts of the inquiry into the collapse, the report of the commissioners, and other sources including the coroner’s inquest, On Cold Iron plays out like a fast-paced thriller. Levert recounts the original 1850s proposals to bridge the St. Lawrence near Quebec City, through the design and construction of what was to be the longest clear span bridge of any kind in the world, to its shocking collapse during construction in August 1907. The missteps, poor policies, hubris, and wrong-headed actions begin to build like a death by a thousand cuts, until its inevitable and horrifying culmination. The meticulously researched and deftly delivered story of this terrible historical event makes fascinating reading for anyone, but even more, it is a powerful cautionary tale and a clarion call for the obligation and responsibility of an engineer.