Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
Canadiana
Author: Montréal
Author: Annick GermainPublisher: Academy Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
How did a small French missionary colony become a major pivot of the North American economy and the leading industrial and financial metropolis of Canada in the nineteenth century, dominated by a Victorian bourgeoisie, only to see its role retrenched, by the later twentieth century, to one of a - contested- metropolis of the French-speaking province of Québec? How does the city today reconcile the many facets of its identity: as French window on North America, but also as a bilingual, and increasingly multicultural, metropolis? How has a city seemingly allergic to urban planning managed to sustain, even revitalize, an animated and liveable urban core? How can its economy exhibit an excellent performance in terms of conversion to high technology and knowledge-based industries, yet suffer from persistent high unemployment? How can a city with such an extreme climate and long cold winter, and that remains significantly divided between two cultural and linguistic majorities, be so frequently ranked one of the world's most liveable cities? The list of paradoxes characterizing Montréal is a long one. The portrait that Annick Germain and Damaris Rose strive to paint of the intriguing city, caught in the maëlstrom of political debate that permeates most of its urban issues, is both wide-ranging and fine-grained. At the heart of this debate lies the "National Question", addressing Québec's place vis-à-vis the Canadian federation. Building on a vast array of recent research, the authors, themselves forming a team that reflects the bilingual, bicultural character of Montréal, explore the twists and turns of Montréal's perennial quest for an identity and a mission worthy of a metropolis.
International Migration and Rural Areas
Author: Myriam SimardPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317113942
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
While immigrants are still predominantly choosing urban areas to locate to, there is now increasing evidence of immigration to rural areas which poses its own challenges for those relocating, from the scarcity of high quality jobs to the provision of public and private services. Addressing the shortcomings in current research, this book employs an innovative approach by exploring this relationship from a cross-national, comparative, global perspective. It draws lessons from case studies across a range of geographical and political contexts, including Canada, the USA, Ireland, Scotland, Greece and Russia. Bringing together migration experts from a range of academic disciplines, International Migration and Rural Areas contributes to conceptual developments and also identifies policy concerns which can be pursued at national, sub-national and supra-national levels. As such, it will appeal to policy makers, as well as scholars across a range of disciplines, including geography, politics, demography, social policy, sociology and anthropology.
Canadian National Child Care Study: Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories
Author: Alan R. PencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child care
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The history of child care its legislation and specific child care data are presented for each of the provinces.
Profil économique de la région de Montréal (06)
Author: Denis DufourPublisher:
ISBN: 9782550223986
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 43
Book Description
Directory of Statistics in Canada
Author: Global Port Cities in North America
Author: Boris VormannPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317577132
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
As the material anchors of globalization, North America’s global port cities channel flows of commodities, capital, and tourists. This book explores how economic globalization processes have shaped these cities' political institutions, social structures, and urban identities since the mid-1970s. Although the impacts of financialization on global cities have been widely discussed, it is curious that how the global integration of commodity chains actually happens spatially — creating a quantitatively new, global organization of production, distribution, and consumption processes — remains understudied. The book uses New York City, Los Angeles, Vancouver, and Montreal as case studies of how once-redundant spaces have been reorganized, and crucially, reinterpreted, so as to accommodate new flows of goods and people — and how, in these processes, social, environmental, and security costs of global production networks have been shifted to the public.
Microlog, Canadian Research Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
Book Description
An indexing, abstracting and document delivery service that covers current Canadian report literature of reference value from government and institutional sources.
Profil économique de la région de Montréal (06)
Author: Marc AlariePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montréal (Québec)
Languages : fr
Pages : 51
Book Description
Canadian Business and Economics
Author: Barbara E. BrownPublisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description