Author: Dominique CliftPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773504141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The English Fact in Quebec
Author: Dominique CliftPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773504141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Amazing Facts in Canadian History Gr. 4-6
Author: Publisher: On The Mark Press
ISBN: 1770727531
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
The English Language in Canada
Author: Charles BobergPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113949144X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The English Language in Canada examines the current status, history and principal features of Canadian English, focusing on the 'standard' variety heard across the country today. The discussion of the status of Canadian English considers the number and distribution of its speakers, its relation to French and other Canadian languages and to American English, its status as the expressive medium of English Canadian culture and its treatment in previous research. The review of its history concentrates on the historical roots and patterns of English-speaking settlement that established Canadian English and influenced its character in each region of Canada. The analysis of its principal features compares the vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar of Canadian English to standard British and American English. Subsequent chapters examine variation and change in the vocabulary and pronunciation of Canadian English, while a final chapter briefly considers the future of Canadian English.
The Cardinal Facts of Canadian History
Author: James P. TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Canada's Odyssey
Author: Peter H. RussellPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487514484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
150 years after Confederation, Canada is known around the world for its social diversity and its commitment to principles of multiculturalism. But the road to contemporary Canada is a winding one, a story of division and conflict as well as union and accommodation. In Canada’s Odyssey, renowned scholar Peter H. Russell provides an expansive, accessible account of Canadian history from the pre-Confederation period to the present day. By focusing on what he calls the "three pillars" of English Canada, French Canada, and Aboriginal Canada, Russell advances an important view of our country as one founded on and informed by "incomplete conquests." It is the very incompleteness of these conquests that have made Canada what it is today, not just a multicultural society but a multinational one. Featuring the scope and vivid characterizations of an epic novel, Canada’s Odyssey is a magisterial work by an astute observer of Canadian politics and history, a perfect book to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Confederation.
Quebec Nationalism in Crisis
Author: Dominique CliftPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773503830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
First published in French in 1981 under the title Le declin du nationalisme au Québec, this classic has received considerable critical acclaim. Graham Fraser of the Montreal Gazette wrote, "a suberb book: provocative, ironic, stimulating, and analytical, with a sharp eye for the social meaning of public events. Clift covered Quebec politics as a daily journalist for almost 25 years. He has succeeded in sweeping across events he covered to reduce them to their most substantial conflict." Dominique Clift's perceptive analysis traces two antagonistic trends in recent Quebec history: the growth of nationalism, which reached its high point with the election of René Lévesque in 1967, and the development of individualism at the expense of group solidarity.
Facts about Canada, Its Provinces and Territories
Author: Jean WeihsPublisher: New York : H.W. Wilson Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A reference of information on the ten provinces and two territories of Canada, compiled from federal and provincial sources. Entries discuss the geography, population, climate, government, politics, history, and culture of each region; list political leaders from the 19th century to the present; and contain chronologies of key events. Includes a bibliography of fiction and nonfiction works for each province and territory, plus an introductory chapter on Canada. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Harper's Book of Facts
Author: Charlton Thomas LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Governing the Island of Montreal
Author: Andrew SanctonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520310764
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Located at the junction of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers, Montreal Island is the main contact point between French and English Canadians. Prior to Quebec's "Quiet Revolution" of the 1960s, local governments in Montreal both reflected and perpetuated the mutual isolation of French and English. Residential concentration in autonomous suburbs, together with self-contained networks of schools and social services, enabled English-speaking Montrealers to control the city's economy and to conduct their community's affairs with little regard for the French-speaking majority. The modernization of the Quebec state in the 1960s dramatically challenged this arrangement. The author demonstrates how the English-speaking politicians in cooperation with certain French-speaking allies have succeeded in preventing the wholesale adoption of ambitious schemes for metropolitan reorganization. He describes the workings of a society divided by language and ethnicity, where the pervasiveness of the politics of language impedes all plans for comprehensive metropolitan reform. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.
Quebec Since 1930
Author: Paul-André LinteauPublisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 9781550282962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
List of Tables List of Maps List of Figures Preface PART 1: THE DEPRESSION AND THE WAR 1930-1945 Introduction Quebec in 1929 The Depression A Troubled Period The Second World War