Author: Ross GravesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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William Schurman Loyalist of Bedeque, Prince Edward Island and His Descendants
Author: Ross GravesWilliam Schurman
Author: Ross GravesWilliam Schurman, Loyalist ...
Author: Dorothy Schurman McHughPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 8
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A United Empire Loyalist Family
Author: Nancy E. NealPublisher: Albany, P.E.I. : N.E. Neal
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Thomas Hooper, son of Clement Hooper (1700-1778) and Mary Stillwell, was born in 1734 in New Jersey. He married and had seven children. After the Revolutionary War they settled in Bedeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
The Wrights of Bedeque, Prince Edward Island
Author: Doris Muncey HaslamPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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The Wrights of Bedeque, Prince Edward Island, a Loyalist Family
Author: Doris Muncey HaslamPublisher:
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Category : Prince Edward Island
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Epidemic
Author: David DekokPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762787228
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The Epidemic tells the story of how a vain and reckless businessman became responsible for a typhoid epidemic in 1903 that devastated Cornell University and the surrounding town of Ithaca, New York. Eighty-two people died, including twenty-nine Cornell students. Protected by influential friends, William T. Morris faced no retribution for this outrage. His legacy was a corporation—first known as Associated Gas & Electric Co. and later as General Public Utilities Corp.—that bedeviled America for a century. The Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979 was its most notorious historical event, but hardly its only offense against the public interest. The Ithaca epidemic came at a time when engineers knew how to prevent typhoid outbreaks but physicians could not yet cure the disease. Both professions were helpless when it came to stopping a corporate executive who placed profit over the public health. Government was a concerned but helpless bystander. In this emotionally gripping book, David DeKok, a former award-winning investigative reporter and the author of widely praised books on the mine fire that devastated Centralia, Pennsylvania, brings this tragedy home by taking us into the lives of many of those most deeply affected. For modern-day readers acutely aware of the risk of a devastating global pandemic and of the dangers of unrestrained corporate power, The Epidemic provides a riveting look back at a heretofore little-known, frightening episode in America’s past that seems all too familiar.Written in the tradition of The Devil in the White City, it is an utterly compelling, thoroughly researched work of narrative history with an edge.
Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English
Author: Terry Kenneth PrattPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802079046
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Strupac, fornenst, trappy, scriss, kippy, snool, flying axehandles, from across - these and hundreds of other fascinating and colourful words and phrases give the English language as it has been spoken in Canada's smallest province a flavour all its own. With the Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English, T.K. Pratt makes a major scholarly contribution to the growing list of regional dictionaries that enable us to discover the rich heritage of the language as spoken throughout North America; at the same time it offers a splendid general introduction to the historical and sociological life of the island. There are approximately 1000 entries of non-standard or dialect words, past and present. The notes deal with usage, pronunciation, alternate forms and spellings, and stylistic and regional labels. Entries include definitions, supportive quotations from P.E.I. sources, editorial notes about various subtleties, and dictionary notes which provide links to some thirty-five other dictionaries. Pratt's introduction defines the criteria for inclusion of words, explains his research methods, and outlines the layout of entries. The end matter includes a bibliography and an important sociolinguistic essay, 'The Dictionary in Profile,' which places the work in the broader context of Prince Edward Island speech. Its range and depth of coverage make this an essential work not only for those concerned with P.E.I. and Maritimes studies, but for all those interested in the regional usage of English.
Epidemic
Author: Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762767618
Category : Rap (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Eleven Exiles
Author: Phyllis R. BlakeleyPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459720938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Eleven Exiles is a personal account of the American Revolution. By focusing on eleven different people who were on the losing side of the American Revolution, and who had to make new lives for themselves in what remained of British North America. Eleven Exiles reflects the major themes of those turbulent years. What were the attitudes of these men and women toward the significant social and political ideas of the time? What motivated them to leave their home and move to a wildnerness? What challenges and hardships did they face?