Montreal

Montreal
Author: Dany Fougères
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 1505
Release: 2018-04-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0773552693

Surrounded by water and located at the heart of a fertile plain, the Island of Montreal has been a crossroads for Indigenous peoples, European settlers, and today's citizens, and an inland port city for the movement of people and goods into and out of North America. Commemorating the city's 375th anniversary, Montreal: The History of a North American City is the definitive, two-volume account of this fascinating metropolis and its storied hinterland. This comprehensive collection of essays, filled with hundreds of illustrations, photographs, and maps, draws on human geography and environmental history to show that while certain distinctive features remain unchanged – Mount Royal, the Lachine Rapids of the Saint Lawrence River – human intervention and urban evolution mean that over time Montrealers have had drastically different experiences and historical understandings. Significant issues such as religion, government, social conditions, the economy, labour, transportation, culture and entertainment, and scientific and technological innovation are treated thematically in innovative and diverse chapters to illuminate how people's lives changed along with the transformation of Montreal. This history of a city in motion presents an entire picture of the changes that have marked the region as it spread from the old city of Ville-Marie into parishes, autonomous towns, boroughs, and suburbs on and off the island. The first volume encompasses the city up to 1930, vividly depicting the lives of First Nations prior to the arrival of Europeans, colonization by the French, and the beginning of British Rule. The crucial roles of waterways, portaging, paths, and trails as the primary means of travelling and trade are first examined before delving into the construction of canals, railways, and the first major roads. Nineteenth-century industrialization created a period of near-total change in Montreal as it became Canada's leading city and witnessed staggering population growth from less than 20,000 people in 1800 to over one million by 1930. The second volume treats the history of Montreal since 1930, the year that the Jacques Cartier Bridge was opened and allowed for the outward expansion of a region, which before had been confined to the island. From the Great Depression and Montreal's role as a munitions manufacturing centre during the Second World War to major cultural events like Expo 67, the twentieth century saw Montreal grow into one of the continent's largest cities, requiring stringent management of infrastructure, public utilities, and transportation. This volume also extensively studies the kinds of political debate with which the region and country still grapple regarding language, nationalism, federalism, and self-determination. Contributors include Philippe Apparicio (INRS), Guy Bellavance (INRS), Laurence Bherer (University of Montreal), Stéphane Castonguay (UQTR), the late Jean-Pierre Collin (INRS), Magda Fahrni (UQAM), the late Jean-Marie Fecteau (UQAM), Dany Fougères (UQAM), Robert Gagnon (UQAM), Danielle Gauvreau (Concordia), Annick Germain (INRS), Janice Harvey (Dawson College), Annie-Claude Labrecque (independent scholar), Yvan Lamonde (McGill), Daniel Latouche (INRS), Roderick MacLeod (independent scholar), Paula Negron-Poblete (University of Montreal), Normand Perron (INRS), Martin Petitclerc (UQAM), Christian Poirier (INRS), Claire Poitras (INRS), Mario Polèse (INRS), Myriam Richard (unaffiliated), Damaris Rose (INRS), Anne-Marie Séguin (INRS), Gilles Sénécal (INRS), Valérie Shaffer (independent scholar), Richard Shearmur (McGill), Sylvie Taschereau (UQTR), Michel Trépanier (INRS), Laurent Turcot (UQTR), Nathalie Vachon (INRS), and Roland Viau (University of Montreal).

Montreal’S Gay Village

Montreal’S Gay Village
Author: Donald W. Hinrichs
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2012-01-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781462068388

The Gay Village in Montreal is a vibrant and unique neighborhood born in the 1980s. It serves as the locus of much of the social life of LGBTQ persons, and is the site of many celebrations including annual pride activities such as the Divers/Cit arts and music festival, Community Day, and the Pride parade. As a result, it has become a popular draw for tourists from around the world. Montreals Gay Village explores the neighborhood from a variety of vantage points and attempts to answer many salient questions about its origins, name, residents, and more: When and why did the Village emerge as a gay neighborhood? Where did it get its name? Who are the residents of the Village? Is the Village primarily a space for gay men, or is it open to a diverse group of people? Is it truly a village, or is it a ghettoand what are the differences? Is it a safe neighborhood to live in and visit? How do LGBTQ persons, tourists, the media, the city, and the tourist industry view the Village? Does the Village have a future as a viable gay neighborhood? This scholarly profile explores the answer to these and many other questions regarding this unique, internationally known community.

Sharing Spaces

Sharing Spaces
Author: Robert Sweeny
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2020-03-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0776628593

Sherry Olson has almost always worked with others, inspiring them to ground their research in an empathetic understanding of the human condition. Through this team work, she has made signal contributions in fields as diverse as environmental, social, urban, and women’s histories, as well as public health, demography, and geographic information systems (GIS). In this volume, a critical assessment of her life’s work is complemented by original pieces advancing our knowledge in these remarkably diverse fields. From the environmental impact of colonial settlement in New Zealand to racial segregation in Chicago, from the demography of the Mauricie and marriage patterns of Quebec City to the inns, gay spaces, and landladies of Montreal, this collection demonstrates the complexity of sharing space in the past and its centrality to any critical understandings of the global challenges we face in the present. Published in English.

The Sacred & the Digital

The Sacred & the Digital
Author: F.G. (Frank) Bosman
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2019-04-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3038978302

Video game studies are a relative young but flourishing academic discipline. But within game studies, however, the perspective of religion and spirituality is rather neglected, both by game scholars and religion scholars. While religion can take different shapes in digital games, ranging from material and referential to reflexive and ritual, it is not necessarily true that game developers depict their in-game religions in a positive, confirming way, but ever so often games approach the topic critically and disavowingly. The religion criticisms found in video games can be categorized as follows: religion as (1) fraud, aimed to manipulate the uneducated, as (2) blind obedience towards an invisible but ultimately non-existing deity/ies, as (3) violence against those who do not share the same set of religious rules, as (4) madness, a deranged alternative for logical reasoning, and as (5) suppression in the hands of the powerful elite to dominate and subdue the masses into submission and obedience. The critical depictions of religion in video games by their developers is the focus of this special issue.

International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Social (In)Justice

International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Social (In)Justice
Author: Ira Bogotch
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1272
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 940076555X

The International Handbook on Educational Leadership and Social (In)Justice creates a first-of-its-kind international forum on conceptualizing the meanings of social justice and leadership, research approaches in studying social justice and combating social injustices, school, university and teacher leadership for social justice, advocacy and advocates for social justice, socio-cultural representations of social injustices, glocal policies, and leadership development as interventions. The Handbook is as much forward-looking as it is a retrospective review of educational research literatures on social justice from a variety of educational subfields including educational leadership, higher education academic networks, special education, health education, teacher education, professional development, policy analyses, and multicultural education. The Handbook celebrates the promises of social justice while providing the educational leadership research community with concrete, contextualized illustrations on how to address inequities and combat social, political and economic injustices through the processes of education in societies and educational institutions around the world.

Transcultural Nursing

Transcultural Nursing
Author: Joyce Newman Giger
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 736
Release: 2012-03-12
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 032329328X

2010 census data is incorporated through the book to provide the most current analysis of demographic trends. Completely revised cultural chapters reflect the shifting experiences of different cultural groups in our society. NEW! 6 additional cultural chapters on Nigerians, Uganda Americans, Jordanian Americans, Cuban Americans, Amish Americans, and Irish Americans

Apartheid Universitaire

Apartheid Universitaire
Author: Louis Préfontaine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 242
Release:
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 2924024242

Avant-propos La question des universités, au Québec, attire rarement l’attention du public, sauf lorsqu’il s’agit de revoir à la hausse les droits de scolarité requis des étudiants. Pourtant, il est un autre aspect du financement des universités québécoises dont on parle encore moins, et qui n’est pas moins problématique : les énormes disparités du financement public que reçoivent les établissements d’enseignement postsecondaires au Québec, cégeps et universités, suivant qu’ils appartiennent au secteur anglophone ou au secteur francophone. Les chiffres parlent d’eux-mêmes, les universités anglophones du Québec obtenaient récemment plus de 29 % des subventions publiques et décrochaient plus de 35 % des subventions fédérales. Dans une étude aussi bien utile qu’éclairante, Louis Préfontaine brosse un portrait général de la situation, qui va bien delà de la simple comptabilité. Son étude montre comment tout exercice de comparaison entre les établissements postsecondaires au Québec ne peut faire l’économie d’une réflexion sur ce qu’on entend par « minorité » ou « communauté anglophone ». Même en prenant un critère moins restrictif que celui que propose Louis Préfontaine de cette « communauté », il apparaît que les établissements postsecondaires de la « minorité » anglophone sont largement surfinancés comparativement à son poids démographique réel. L’auteur illustre, tableaux à l’appui, les multiples conséquences de ces déséquilibres, et notamment comment les institutions postsecondaires anglophones contribuent à créer autour d’elles, au-delà de leur campus, une dynamique assimilatoire favorable à la langue anglaise. De plus, l’auteur a le mérite de comparer les établissements postsecondaires dans l’ensemble du Canada et de signaler à notre attention que le financement universitaire par personne pour un francophone est largement en deçà de celui que reçoit un anglophone. Si, en théorie, pourrait penser que l’État du Québec finance, à même les fonds publics, d’un côté un réseau universitaire pour la majorité nationale d’intégration – pour reprendre l’expression de Louis Préfontaine – et de l’autre, un réseau parallèle pour sa minorité linguistique, dans les faits, on s’aperçoit que le Québec est sans doute l’un des rares États – souverains ou fédérés – qui entretient deux réseaux d’enseignement complets et concurrents, comme si deux majorités nationales d’intégration cohabitaient sur le même territoire. La création de deux mégahôpitaux universitaires à Montréal, qui concourt au surfinancement du réseau universitaire anglophone, viendra entériner ce système de facto de la double majorité. La comparaison internationale qu’établit monsieur Préfontaine révèle en quoi le cas du Québec est une « anomalie », puisque généralement, les minorités linguistiques ailleurs dans le monde jouissent ou bien de droits scolaires inexistants, ou bien d’un système d’éducation limité aux premiers cycles d’enseignement, ou bien d’un système plus complet au bénéfice strict de la minorité. Au Québec, à l’inverse, l’État accepte et finance le fait que les universités de sa « minorité » se soient transformées en universités de la majorité anglophone nord-américaine ainsi que le remarque l’auteur, au lieu de régler le financement public des universités et des cégeps sur un partage des ressources plus équitable et représentatif des équilibres démo-linguistiques. Tant et aussi longtemps que la base du financement public des universités et cégeps reposera sur un système de « marché aux étudiants », la subvention étant fonction du nombre d’étudiants inscrits et diplômés dans un établissement et des disciplines, les déséquilibres constatés par Louis Préfontaine, loin de s’amenuiser, risquent de s’amplifier. En ce sens, en dépit de la création sous Daniel Johnson d’une deuxième université francophone à Montréal en 1969 et de l’adoption de la loi 101 en 1977, l’enseignement supérieur en français est loin encore d’occuper la juste place qu’il pourrait prendre au Québec, d’autant plus que le Québécois francophone, en moyenne, s’instruit encore moins à l’université que le Canadien en général, ou l’Anglo-québécois. En conclusion, Louis Préfontaire envisage divers scénarios correctifs : appliquer la loi 101 au cégep et au premier cycle universitaire, s’inspirer de la formule « hybride » lettonne qui oblige les établissements de la minorité à consacrer une partie appréciable de leurs enseignements dans la langue de la majorité, rajuster à la baisse le financement octroyé aux universités anglophones, en fonction du poids réel de la « communauté » historique d’expression anglaise. Il y a sans doute d’autres scénarios, que n’envisage pas l’auteur, et qui impliquent la considération d’autres facteurs et contraintes juridiques, financières, institutionnelles, etc. Quoi qu’il en soit, peu importe le sort qu’on fera aux propositions de Louis Préfontaine, il sera inévitable que l’on débatte avec rigueur et sérénité de ces enjeux, s’il est vrai que la défense de la langue et de la culture françaises au Québec ne s’arrêtent pas à la sortie de nos écoles secondaires. Marc Chevrier Professeur Département de science politique Université du Québec à Montréal

Yiddish Lives On

Yiddish Lives On
Author: Rebecca Margolis
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2023-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0228015510

The language of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization that was decimated in the Nazi Holocaust, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to engage with their heritage and identity. Although widely considered an endangered language, Yiddish has evolved as a site for creative renewal in the Jewish world and beyond in addition to being used daily within Hasidic communities. Yiddish Lives On explores the continuity of the language in the hands of a diverse group of native, heritage, and new speakers. The book tells stories of communities in Canada and abroad that have resisted the decline of Yiddish over a period of seventy years, spotlighting strategies that facilitate continuity through family transmission, theatre, activism, publishing, song, cinema, and other new media. Rebecca Margolis uses a multidisciplinary approach that draws on methodologies from history, sociolinguistics, ethnography, digital humanities, and screen studies to examine the ways in which engagement with Yiddish has evolved across multiple planes. Investigating the products of an abiding dedication to cultural continuity among successive generations, Yiddish Lives On offers innovative approaches to the preservation, promotion, and revitalization of minority, heritage, and lesser-taught languages.

Cold War on Ice

Cold War on Ice
Author: John G. Robertson
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2023-10-18
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1476693870

Between December 28, 1975, and January 11, 1976, a groundbreaking hockey event took place: Super Series '76. Eight National Hockey League clubs each hosted a single exhibition game against one of two touring teams from the USSR: Central Red Army or Wings of the Soviet. Officially nothing was at stake, but serious hockey fans realized that a Cold War clash of political ideologies was occurring on North American ice surfaces. The top pro teams would finally meet the best "amateurs" from the Soviet Elite League. The reputations of the NHL and Soviet hockey were both on the line. Canadians already knew how strong the Soviets were, based on the eye-opening experiences of both countries' hockey stars in the 1972 and 1974 Summit Series. For many Americans, however, the talents of the exotic, Eastern Bloc visitors provided a stunning revelation. This book outlines the history of the intense Canada-USSR hockey rivalry that preceded Super Series '76 and then focuses on those eight captivating games in New York, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Buffalo, Boston, Chicago, Long Island and Philadelphia. Two of these contests are still widely discussed today for vastly different reasons. One may have been the greatest hockey game ever played.