Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 1826
Book Description
Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives ...
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 1826
Book Description
Canada's Greatest Wartime Muddle
Author: Michael D. StevensonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773522633
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
These case studies show that mobilization officials achieved only a limited number of their regulatory goals and that Ottawa's attempt to organize and allocate the nation's military and civilian human resources on a rational, orderly, and efficient scale was largely ineffective."--BOOK JACKET.
Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century
Author: Lachlan MacKinnonPublisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 1771994053
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The emergence, dominance, and alarmingly rapid retreat of modernist industrial capitalism on Cape Breton Island during the “long twentieth century” offers a particularly captivating window on the lasting and varied effects of deindustrialization. Now, at the tail end of the industrial moment in North American history, the story of Cape Breton Island presents an opportunity to reflect on how industrialization and deindustrialization have shaped human experiences. Covering the period between 1860 and the early 2000s, this volume looks at trade unionism, state and cultural responses to deindustrialization, including the more recent pivot towards the tourist industry, and the lived experiences of Indigenous and Black people. Rather than focusing on the separate or distinct nature of Cape Breton, contributors place the island within broad transnational networks such as the financial world of the Anglo-Atlantic, the Celtic music revival, the Black diaspora, Canadian development programs, and more. In capturing the vital elements of a region on the rural resource frontier that was battered by deindustrialization, the histories included here show how the interplay of the state, cultures, and transnational connections shaped how people navigated these heavy pressures, both individually and collectively.
The Canada Year Book
Author: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary
Author: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of CanadaPublisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 1459410696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy. This report lays bare a part of Canada's history that until recently was little-known to most non-Aboriginal Canadians. The Commission discusses the logic of the colonization of Canada's territories, and why and how policy and practice developed to end the existence of distinct societies of Aboriginal peoples. Using brief excerpts from the powerful testimony heard from Survivors, this report documents the residential school system which forced children into institutions where they were forbidden to speak their language, required to discard their clothing in favour of institutional wear, given inadequate food, housed in inferior and fire-prone buildings, required to work when they should have been studying, and subjected to emotional, psychological and often physical abuse. In this setting, cruel punishments were all too common, as was sexual abuse. More than 30,000 Survivors have been compensated financially by the Government of Canada for their experiences in residential schools, but the legacy of this experience is ongoing today. This report explains the links to high rates of Aboriginal children being taken from their families, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and high rates of suicide. The report documents the drastic decline in the presence of Aboriginal languages, even as Survivors and others work to maintain their distinctive cultures, traditions, and governance. The report offers 94 calls to action on the part of governments, churches, public institutions and non-Aboriginal Canadians as a path to meaningful reconciliation of Canada today with Aboriginal citizens. Even though the historical experience of residential schools constituted an act of cultural genocide by Canadian government authorities, the United Nation's declaration of the rights of aboriginal peoples and the specific recommendations of the Commission offer a path to move from apology for these events to true reconciliation that can be embraced by all Canadians.
Colliery Guardian and Journal of the Coal and Iron Trades
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
Report of the Post-war Reconstruction Committee, 1945: Report of the Subcommittee on Natural Resources
Author: Alberta. Post-War Reconstruction CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alberta
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Coal Resources of the United States
Author: Alfred E. TorreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Coal Resources of the United States
Author: Paul AverittReport of the Post-war Reconstruction Committee, 1945 ...
Author: Alberta. Post-war Reconstruction CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alberta
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description