Author: Ramsay CookPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773529199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Classic essays analysing the roots and growth of nationalism in Quebec.
Watching Quebec
Author: Ramsay CookPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773529199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Classic essays analysing the roots and growth of nationalism in Quebec.
1,000 Places to See in the USA and Canada Before You Die
Author: Patricia SchultzPublisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 9780761147381
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description
Describes essential places to see throughout the United States and Canada, offering information on what to find at each spot, the best time to visit, things to see and do, local accommodations and eateries, and other important information.
The Makers of Canada: Lafontaine,by S. Leacock. see Baldwin
Author: Canada's Jews
Author: Gerald TulchinskyPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442691131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
The history of the Jewish community in Canada says as much about the development of the nation as it does about the Jewish people. Spurred on by upheavals in Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Jews emigrated to the Dominion of Canada, which was then considered little more than a British satellite state. Over the ensuing decades, as the Canadian Jewish identity was forged, Canada itself underwent the transformative experience of separating itself from Britain and distinguishing itself from the United States. In this light, the Canadian Jewish identity was formulated within the parameters of the emerging Canadian national personality. Canada's Jews is an account of this remarkable story as told by one of the leading authors and historians on the Jewish legacy in Canada. Drawing on his previous work on the subject, Gerald Tulchinsky illuminates the struggle against anti-Semitism and the search for a livelihood amongst the Jewish community. He demonstrates that, far from being a fragment of the Old World, the Canadian Jewry grew from a tiny group of transplanted Europeans to a fully articulated, diversified, and dynamic national group that defined itself as Canadian while expressing itself in the varied political and social contexts of the Dominion. Canada's Jews covers the 240-year period from the beginnings of the Jewish community in the 1760s to the present day, illuminating the golden chain of Jewish tradition, religion, language, economy, and history as established and renewed in the northern lands. With important points about labour, immigration, and anti-Semitism, it is a timely book that offers sober observations about the Jewish experience and its relation to Canadian history.
Guide to Watching Whales in Canada
Author: Mimi BretonPublisher: Fisheries and Oceans, Information and Publications Branch
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Well illustrated book giving up-to-date information on the many species of whales found in Canadian waters. Includes full colour identification drawings of the whole whale as well as the parts of the whale that can be seen above water. Includes maps showing distribution.
The Rough Guide to Canada
Author: Tim JepsonPublisher: Rough Guides UK
ISBN: 1848366612
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
The Rough Guide to Canada is the ultimate travel guide to this staggeringly beautiful country with detailed coverage of all the top attractions. Inspired by stunning photography and insightful background information, discover both the urban and the wild with expert guidance on exploring everything from the glistening skyscrapers of Toronto, the restaurants of Montreal and the laid-back ambience of Vancouver, to the spectacular Niagra falls and the rolling plains of the Prairies. You'll find specialist information on a host of outdoor activities including winter sports in the Rockies, trekking through the Northwest Territories, and wildlife spotting in the country's great wilderness, with sections on the National Parks and Skiing and Snowboarding. Choose what to see and do whilst relying on up-to-date descriptions of the best hotels, bars, clubs, shops and restaurants for all budgets. Explore every corner of this stunning country with clear maps and expert background on everything from sea cliffs and tidal bores in the Bay of Fundy to the walled Old Town in Qu�bec City. Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Canada.
Duty to Dissent
Author: Geoff KeelanPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 077483885X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
During the First World War, Henri Bourassa – fierce Canadian nationalist, politician, and journalist from Quebec – took centre stage in the national debates on Canada’s participation in the war, its imperial ties to Britain, and Canada’s place in the world. In Duty to Dissent, Geoff Keelan draws upon Bourassa’s voluminous editorials in Le Devoir, the newspaper he founded in 1910, to trace Bourassa’s evolving perspective on the war’s meaning and consequences. What emerges is not a simplistic sketch of a local journalist engaged in national debates, as most English Canadians know him, but a fully rendered portrait of a Canadian looking out at the world. By situating Bourassa within a larger panorama that connects him to prominent war resisters from around the globe, Keelan offers fresh insight into one of Canada’s most influential historical figures, reshaping our understanding of why Quebec’s position on the Great War differed so radically from the rest of Canada.
The Empire Within
Author: Sean MillsPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773583491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
In a brilliant history of a turbulent time and place, Mills pulls back the curtain on the decade's activists and intellectuals, showing their engagement both with each other and with people from around the world. He demonstrates how activists of different backgrounds and with different political aims drew on ideas of decolonization to rethink the meanings attached to the politics of sex, race, and class and to imagine themselves as part of a broad transnational movement of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist resistance. The temporary unity forged around ideas of decolonization came undone in the 1970s, however, as many were forced to come to terms with the contradictions and ambiguities of applying ideas of decolonization in Quebec. From linguistic debates to labour unions, and from the political activities of citizens in the city's poorest neighbourhoods to its Caribbean intellectuals, The Empire Within is a political tour of Montreal that reconsiders the meaning and legacy of the city's dissident traditions. It is also a fascinating chapter in the history of postcolonial thought.
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