Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Victoria Bridge, at Montreal, Canada
Author: Hunter's Hand Book of the Victoria Bridge
Author: Frederick N. BoxerPublisher: Hunter & Pickup
ISBN:
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Construction of the Great Victoria Bridge in Canada
Author: James Hodges (Engineer to Messrs. Peto, Brassey, & Betts, Contractors.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pont Victoria (Montréal, Québec)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Canadian Engineer
Author: An Accidental History of Canada
Author: Megan J. DaviesPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228023475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Although Canadian history has no shortage of stories about disasters and accidents, the phenomena of risk, upset, and misfortune have been largely overlooked by historians. Disasters get their due, but not so the smaller-scale accident where fate is more intimate. Yet such events often have a vivid afterlife in the communities where they happen, and the way in which they are explained and remembered has significant social, cultural, and political meaning. An Accidental History of Canada brings together original studies of an intriguing range of accidents stretching from the 1630s to the 1970s. These include workplace, domestic, childhood, and leisure accidents in colonial, Indigenous, rural, and urban settings. Whether arising from colonial power relations, urban dangers, perils in resource extraction, or hazardous recreations, most accidents occur within circumstances of vulnerability, and reveal precarity and inequities not otherwise apparent. Contributors to this volume are alert to the intersections of the settler agenda and the elevation of risk that it brings. Indigenous and settler ways of understanding accidents are juxtaposed, with chapters exploring the links between accidents and the rise of the modern state. An Accidental History of Canada makes plain that whether they are interpreted as an intervention by providence, a miscalculation, an inevitability, or the result of observable risk, accidents – and our responses to them – reveal shared values.
Engineering News
Author: Historical Atlas of Canada: The land transformed, 1800-1891
Author: Geoffrey J. MatthewsPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802034470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Uses maps to illustrate the development of Canada from the last ice sheet to the end of the eighteenth century
Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec
Author: Literary and Historical Society of QuebecPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Québec (Province)
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Letter to the Shareholders of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada
Author: Grand Trunk Railway Company of CanadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pont Victoria (Montréal, Québec).
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Visibly Canadian
Author: Karen StanworthPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773596933
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Spectacular, scientific, and educational cultural practices were used to establish and define public identities in the British colonies of nineteenth-century Canada. In Visibly Canadian, Karen Stanworth argues that visual representations were the era's primary mode of expressing identity, and shows how the citizenry of Quebec and Ontario was - or was not - represented in the visual culture of the time. Through nine case studies, each representing key moments of identity formation and contestation, Stanworth investigates how a broad range of cultural phenomena, from fine arts to institutional histories to public spectacles, were used to order, resist, and articulate identities within specific social and economic contexts. The negotiation and planning underpinning civic culture are evident in rare moments of compromise such as the surprising proposal from the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society to merge their annual parade with the celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Equally astounding is the scale of nineteenth-century public spectacles; reenactments of Victorian scenes of war often attracted crowds of upwards of 10,000 people. Illustrated with over fifty images, many unseen for over a century, Visibly Canadian establishes the extraordinary significance of artwork and public spectacles in cutting across language, religion, and class to tell stories of nationhood, belonging, and difference.