The Story of Our Country [microform] : a History of Canada for Four Hundred Years
Author | : John Castell Hopkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 9780665733321 |
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Author | : John Castell Hopkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 9780665733321 |
Author | : Conrad Black |
Publisher | : McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | : 1146 |
Release | : 2014-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0771013558 |
Masterful, ambitious, and groundbreaking, this is a major new history of our country by one of our most respected thinkers and historians -- a book every Canadian should own. From the acclaimed biographer and historian Conrad Black comes the definitive history of Canada -- a revealing, groundbreaking account of the people and events that shaped a nation. Spanning 874 to 2014, and beginning from Canada's first inhabitants and the early explorers, this masterful history challenges our perception of our history and Canada's role in the world. From Champlain to Carleton, Baldwin and Lafontaine, to MacDonald, Laurier, and King, Canada's role in peace and war, to Quebec's quest for autonomy, Black takes on sweeping themes and vividly recounts the story of Canada's development from colony to dominion to country. Black persuasively reveals that while many would argue that Canada was perhaps never predestined for greatness, the opposite is in fact true: the emergence of a magnificent country, against all odds, was a remarkable achievement. Brilliantly conceived, this major new reexamination of our country's history is a riveting tour de force by one of the best writers writing today.
Author | : Philip Girard |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 928 |
Release | : 2018-12-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1487530595 |
A History of Law in Canada is an important three-volume project. Volume One begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, Volume Two covers the half century after Confederation, and Volume Three covers the period from the beginning of the First World War to 1982, with a postscript taking the account to approximately 2000. The history of law includes substantive law, legal institutions, legal actors, and legal culture. The authors assume that since 1500 there have been three legal systems in Canada – the Indigenous, the French, and the English. At all times, these systems have co-existed and interacted, with the relative power and influence of each being more or less dominant in different periods. The history of law cannot be treated in isolation, and this book examines law as a dynamic process, shaped by and affecting other histories over the long term. The law guided and was guided by economic developments, was influenced and moulded by the nature and trajectory of political ideas and institutions, and variously exacerbated or mediated intercultural exchange and conflict. These themes are apparent in this examination, and through most areas of law including land settlement and tenure, and family, commercial, constitutional, and criminal law.
Author | : Laura Madokoro |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2017-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0774834463 |
How has race shaped Canada’s international encounters and its role in the world? How have the actions of politicians, diplomats, citizens, and nongovernmental organizations reflected and reinforced racial power structures in Canada? In this book, leading scholars grapple with these complex questions, destabilizing conventional understandings of Canada in the world. Dominion of Race exposes how race-thinking has informed priorities and policies, positioned Canada in the international community, and contributed to a global order rooted in racial beliefs. While the contributors reconsider familiar topics, including the Paris Peace Conference and Canada’s involvement with the United Nations, they enlarge the scope of Canada’s international history by subject, geography, and methodology. By demonstrating that race is a fundamental component of Canada and its international history, this important book calls for reengagement with the histories of those marginalized in, or excluded from, the historical record.
Author | : Michael Bliss |
Publisher | : New York : Watts |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1975-01-01 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 9780531021736 |
Describes the events leading to the Confederation of various Canadian provinces to become the Dominion of Canada.
Author | : Canadian Press Association |
Publisher | : Murray Printing Company |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Canadian newspapers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Neil Semple |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1996-04-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0773565752 |
Semple covers virtually every aspect of Canadian Methodism. He examines early nineteenth-century efforts to evangelize pioneer British North America and the revivalistic activities so important to the mid-nineteenth-century years. He documents Methodists' missionary work both overseas and in Canada among aboriginal peoples and immigrants. He analyses the Methodist contribution to Canadian education and the leadership the church provided for the expansion of the role of women in society. He also assesses the spiritual and social dimensions of evangelical religion in the personal lives of Methodists, addressing such social issues as prohibition, prostitution, the importance of the family, and changing attitudes toward children in Methodist doctrine and Canada in general. Semple argues that Methodism evolved into the most Canadian of all the churches, helping to break down the geographic, political, economic, ethnic, and social divisions that confounded national unity. Although the Methodist Church did not achieve the universality it aspired to, he concludes that it succeeded in defining the religious, political, and social agenda for the Protestant component of Canada, providing a powerful legacy of service to humanity and to God.
Author | : Stephen J. Pyne |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 581 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0774840277 |
Fire is a defining element in Canadian land and life. With few exceptions, Canada's forests and prairies have evolved with fire. Its peoples have exploited fire and sought to protect themselves from its excesses, and since Confederation, the country has devised various institutions to connect fire and society. The choices Canadians have made says a great deal about their national character. Awful Splendour narrates the history of this grand saga. It will interest geographers, historians, and members of the fire community.
Author | : David Dilks |
Publisher | : Thomas Allen Publishers |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2005-04-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Through newspaper accounts of the time, Churchill's own speeches, and more recent research, eminent British historian David Dilks illuminates Churchill's visits to the Commonwealth country he knew best.
Author | : Cynthia Comacchio |
Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 667 |
Release | : 2008-10-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1554586577 |
Adolescence, like childhood, is more than a biologically defined life stage: it is also a sociohistorical construction. The meaning and experience of adolescence are reformulated according to societal needs, evolving scientific precepts, and national aspirations relative to historic conditions. Although adolescence was by no means a “discovery” of the early twentieth century, it did assume an identifiably modern form during the years between the Great War and 1950. The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950 captures what it meant for young Canadians to inhabit this liminal stage of life within the context of a young nation caught up in the self-formation and historic transformation that would make modern Canada. Because the young at this time were seen paradoxically as both the hope of the nation and the source of its possible degeneration, new policies and institutions were developed to deal with the “problem of youth.” This history considers how young Canadians made the transition to adulthood during a period that was “developmental”—both for youth and for a nation also working toward individuation. During the years considered here, those who occupied this “dominion” of youth would see their experiences more clearly demarcated by generation and culture than ever before. With this book, Cynthia Comacchio offers the first detailed study of adolescence in early-twentieth-century Canada and demonstrates how young Canadians of the period became the nation’s first modern teenagers.