Once Upon A Time In British Columbia
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Author | : Nicholas Mills |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2018-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1312741023 |
Over 150 years history of Canada's westernmost Province - snapshots of the people, places and events.
Author | : Joe Remesz |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2013-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1475991983 |
By world standards Canada is a country that respects and protects its human rights. That has not always been the case. ONCE UPON A TIME IN CANADA is not only a romantic ethnic/historical/fictional novel but also one that deals with justice when two young Ukrainian students leave their homeland in 1910 for Canada and while onboard a ship, meet two Irish school teachers. Both couples are on their way to Winnipeg in order to fi nd a better life. During World War 1 the Ukraine Pawlo Byli and Petro Chorny like most East Europeans are classified as 'The Scum of Europe' and along with 8500 other foreigners with the help of xenophobic Anglo Saxons, are incarcerated into 24 Concentration Camps because through no fault of their own, are classified as aliens and enemies of Canada. Th e novel also deals with the personal intrigues and struggles of the new British subjects, By world standards Canada is a country that respects and protects its citizen's human rights. That has not always been the case. This book is dedicated to all my Ukrainian friends who generously helped me with material and advice to reconstruct ONCE UPON A TIME IN CANADA. It is also dedicated to freedom and justice and all the people who understand and affirm freedom and justice.
Author | : Sheila Egoff |
Publisher | : Orca Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2005-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1551433354 |
The memoir of a children's librarian, a reader, a teacher and a critic.
Author | : Nicholas Mills |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2013-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1291586148 |
True stories surrounding historical events, people and places in one of the oldest communities in British Columbia, Canada. The books tells of over one hundred and fifty years of life in a small town in the Upper Similkameen River Valley. "The history of Princeton is the history of British Columbia."
Author | : Charles Foster |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2003-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1459712676 |
When sound arrived in Hollywood in the late 1920s, Canadians were already holding some of the most important roles in the motion picture industry. Louis B. Mayer, from New Brunswick, was boss at MGM; Jack Warner, from Ontario, was head of Warner Bros. Studio; and Mack Sennett, from Quebec, was still King of Comedy. Canadians like Mary Pickford, Marie Dressler, and Norma Shearer moved easily from silents to talkies - this illustrious trio won the first three Academy Awards for Best Actress. Canadians arriving in sunny California in the 1930s and 1940s were principally actors, including Yvonne de Carlo, Walter Pidgeon, Ruby Keeler, and many others. You will be amazed at the Canadian influence on Hollywood's Golden Age.
Author | : Les Kaluza |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2020-02-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1678174130 |
Merriam Press Memoir. Once Upon a Time There Was a War is a kaleidoscope of events. It starts with World War II seen through the eyes of a child. The author was only nine years old when the war started and he writes about his memories of horrible events like hangings and executions of innocent people; senseless killings that brought misery to so many lives. But, being only a child, he also had times of fun and play. The reality of war, however, was ever-present. Despite those dark times, Les remained an optimist; he had his dreams of becoming an animator and of going to Hollywood. He didn't know how, but he was sure that someday he would reach his goal. Les reached his goal and had a long career working for studios in Poland, as well as Disney and Hanna-Barbera in the U.S., and others. Those fascinating stories, and many more, are also in this memoir.
Author | : Jan Zwicky |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2023-05-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0228018307 |
Western civilization is over. So begins Jan Zwicky’s trenchant exploration of the root of global cultural and ecological collapse: a way of thinking that is also linked to some of the West’s most noted achievements. The Renaissance merged imperial enterprise with Islamic algebra and recently recovered Greek mathematics to precipitate mechanized industry and resource extraction; these in turn made possible the growth of capitalism, the military-industrial complex, and Big Technology. Despite its self-image as objective, Zwicky argues, the West’s style of thought is not politically neutral, but intensely anthropocentric. It has led those who adopt it to regard the more-than-human world as nothing more than timber licences and drilling sites, where value is not recognized unless it is monetized. Oblivious to context and blind to big-picture thinking, it analyzes, mechanizes, digitizes, and systematizes, while rejecting empathy and compassion as distorting influences. Lyric comprehension, in Zwicky’s view, offers an alternative to this way of thinking, and she provides a wide range of examples. Once upon a Time in the West documents how a narrow epistemological style has left Western thought blind to critical features of reality, and how the terrifying consequences of that blinkered vision are now beginning to unfold.
Author | : Wikipedia contributors |
Publisher | : e-artnow sro |
Total Pages | : 805 |
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Author | : Jean Barman |
Publisher | : Harbour Publishing |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2020-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1550178970 |
“The ways in which we can redress the past are many and varied,” writes Jean Barman, “and it is up to each of us to act as best we can.” The seventeen essays collected here, originally published between 1996 and 2013, make a valuable contribution toward this laudable goal. With a wide range of source material, from archival and documentary sources to oral histories, Barman pieces together stories of individuals and groups disadvantaged in white settler society because of their gender, race and/or social class. Working to recognize past actors that have been underrepresented in mainstream histories, Barman’s focus is BC on “the cusp of contact.” The essays in this collection include fascinating, though largely forgotten, life stories of the frontier—that space between contact and settlement, where, for a brief moment, anything seemed possible. This volume, featuring over thirty archival photographs and illustrations, makes these important and very readable essays accessible to a broader audience for the first time.
Author | : R. Kenneth Carty |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 1996-09-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0774841915 |
Politics, Policy, and Government in British Columbia examines the political life of Canada's dynamic Pacific province. Each of the seventeen chapters, written by well-known experts, provides an up-to-date portrait and analysis of one of the many faces of B.C. politics. Taken together they provide a clear and comprehensive overview of the dominant themes and issues that have been the distinguishing features of the province's political life.