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Author | : Eric McGeer |
Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 537 |
Release | : 2017-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1771123125 |
There could be no truer witness to the enormity of the First World War and its terrible cost in lives than the memorials and war cemeteries along the old Western Front. In Canada, no less than in the other dominions of the British Empire, the war left a conflicting legacy of pride and sorrow that endures to this day. The soaring Vimy Memorial, the Brooding Soldier, and the monuments honouring Canada’s significant contribution to the Allied victory symbolize the spirit of shared sacrifice and nationhood that emerged from the crucible of the war. But alongside this official commemoration there exists a poignant, strangely overlooked, record of the grief and search for consolation among the Canadian populace in the years after the Armistice. This has come down in the personal inscriptions which the Imperial War Graves Commission invited next of kin to have engraved on the headstones of the fallen. Simple, heartfelt, often gems of compression, these farewells preserve the voice of Canada’s bereaved, the parents, the wives, the children, who were left to mourn and to seek meaning and comfort in their loss. This book offers an anthology of epitaphs drawn from the war cemeteries where Canadian soldiers lie buried in Flanders and France. Photographs and war art transport readers to the sites, and each chapter reviews the sources and themes of the epitaphs to establish their place in the national memory of the First World War.
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Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Books |
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Author | : John William Garvin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Canadian poetry |
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Author | : Royal Society of Canada |
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Total Pages | : 892 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Humanities |
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Author | : Guy Laforest |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1995-03-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 077356537X |
In 1982 Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau realized his life's ambition: the patriation of the Canadian constitution and the enshrinement of a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. At the same time he dealt a severe blow to his arch-enemies, the nationalists in Quebec who believed that a significant and rewarding partnership with Canada was possible without renouncing their identity as Quebecers. Laforest reveals that Trudeau betrayed the trust of the people of Quebec during the 1980 referendum on sovereignty-association and contends that the whole patriation exercise, completed without the consent of Quebec, is not legitimate in that province. He also holds Trudeau responsible for the ultimate rejection of the "distinct society" clause in the Meech Lake Accord, which had given a glimmer of hope to Quebec federalists. Trudeau and the End of a Canadian Dream shows how constitutional reform, and the political culture it fostered, shattered the hopes of those who believed that being both a Canadian and a Quebecer was possible.
Author | : Helena Coleman |
Publisher | : London : Dent |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
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Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 2023-05-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3382192748 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author | : Robert Choquette |
Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2004-02-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0776618474 |
With nine out of ten Canadians claiming a religious affiliation of some kind - Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Aboriginal, or one of dozens of other religions - faith has huge impact on our personal and social lives. In this book, Robert Choquette offers a comprehensive history of religion in Canada and examines the ongoing tug-of-war between modernity and conservatism within the religious traditions themselves.
Author | : Eric McGeer |
Publisher | : Uniform Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-03 |
Genre | : Cemeteries |
ISBN | : 9781910500668 |
"There could be no truer witness to the enormity of the First World War, and its terrible cost in lives, than the memorials and war cemeteries along the old Western Front. In Canada, no less than in the other dominions of the British Empire, the war left a conflicting legacy of pride and sorrow that endures to this day. The soaring Vimy Memorial, the Brooding Soldier, and the monuments honouring Canada's significant contribution to the Allied victory symbolize the spirit of shared sacrifice and nationhood that emerged from the crucible of the war; but alongside this official commemoration there exists a poignant, strangely overlooked, record of the grief and search for consolation among the Canadian populace in the years after the Armistice. This has come down in the personal inscriptions which the Imperial War Graves Commission invited next of kin to have engraved on the headstones of the fallen. Simple, heartfelt, often gems of compression, these farewells preserve the voice of Canada's bereaved, the parents, the wives, the children, who were left to mourn and to seek meaning and comfort in their loss. This book offers an anthology of epitaphs drawn from the war cemeteries where Canadian soldiers lie buried in Flanders and France. Photographs and war art transport readers to the sites, and each chapter reviews the sources and themes of the epitaphs to establish their place in the national memory of the ordeal of 1914-1918."--Book jacket.
Author | : Sir Richard Henry BONNYCASTLE |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1852 |
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