The Selkirk Settlers in Real Life
Author | : Roderick George MacBeth |
Publisher | : W. Briggs ; Montreal : C.W. Coates ; Halifax, N.S. : S.F. Huestis |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Frontier and Pioneer Life Manitoba |
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Author | : Roderick George MacBeth |
Publisher | : W. Briggs ; Montreal : C.W. Coates ; Halifax, N.S. : S.F. Huestis |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Frontier and Pioneer Life Manitoba |
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Author | : George Bryce |
Publisher | : Toronto, Musson |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
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Author | : Glenn Sigurdson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781926531939 |
Well-known mediator and lawyer, Glenn Sigurdson blends personal memoir, family history and Icelandic lore in a unique and wide-ranging autobiography. Vikings on a Prairie Ocean brings to life the people and places of Lake Winnipeg since the arrival of the Icelandic settlers to its shores in 1875 through the engaging lens of a family legacy of fishing on those waters. The perils of summer and winter fishing on an unpredictable and unforgiving lake are interwoven with accounts of Aboriginal partnerships, colourful characters, and a proud, resilient family.
Author | : Lucille H. Campey |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2005-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1897045018 |
Scots, some of Upper Canadas earliest pioneers, influenced its early development. This book charts the progress of Scottish settlement throughout the province.
Author | : J.M. Bumsted |
Publisher | : Univ. of Manitoba Press |
Total Pages | : 517 |
Release | : 2008-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0887553370 |
Thomas Douglas, the Fifth Earl of Selkirk (1770–1820), was a complex man of his times, whose passions left an indelible mark on Canadian history. A product of the Scottish Enlightenment and witness to the French Revolution, he dedicated his fortune and energy to the vision of a new colony at the centre of North America. His final legacy, the Red River Settlement, led to the eventual end of the dominance of the fur trade and began the demographic and social transformation of western Canada. The product of three decades of research, this is the definitive biography of Lord Selkirk. Bumsted’s passionate prose and thoughtful analysis illuminate not only the man, but also the political and economic realities of the British empire at the turn of the nineteenth century. He analyzes Selkirk’s position within these realities, showing how his paternalistic attitudes informed his “social experiments” in colonization and translated into unpredictable, and often tragic, outcomes. Bumsted also provides extensive detail on the complexities of colonization, the Scottish Enlightenment, Scottish peerage, the fur trade, the Red River settlement, and early British-Canadian politics.
Author | : Ken McGoogan |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2019-09-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1443452610 |
Bestselling author Ken McGoogan tells the story of those courageous Scots who, ruthlessly evicted from their ancestral homelands, were sent to Canada in coffin ships, where they would battle hardship, hunger and even murderous persecution. After the Scottish Highlanders were decimated at the 1746 Battle of Culloden, the British government banned kilts and bagpipes and set out to destroy a clan system that for centuries had sustained a culture, a language and a unique way of life. The Clearances, or forcible evictions, began when landlords—among them traitorous clan chieftains—realized they could increase their incomes dramatically by driving out tenant farmers and dedicating their estates to sheep. Flight of the Highlanders: The Making of Canada intertwines two main narratives. The first is that of the Clearances themselves, during which some 200,000 Highlanders were driven—some of them burned out, others beaten unconscious—from lands occupied by their forefathers for hundreds of years. The second narrative focuses on resettlement. The refugees, frequently misled by false promises, battled impossible conditions wherever they arrived, from the forests of Nova Scotia to the winter barrens of northern Manitoba. Between the 1770s and the 1880s, tens of thousands of dispossessed and destitute Highlanders crossed the Atlantic —prototypes for the refugees we see arriving today from around the world. If today Canada is more welcoming to newcomers than most countries, it is at least partly because of the lingering influence of those unbreakable refugees. Together with their better-off brethren—the lawyers, educators, politicians and businessmen—those indomitable Highlanders were the making of Canada.
Author | : Frank Howard Schofield |
Publisher | : Winnipeg, Clarke |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Manitoba |
ISBN | : |
This collection of biographies of Manitobans was compiled by the S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, and published in Winnipeg in 1913. Most of those featured in the book were living at that time, so no information on death dates were provided.
Author | : Arthur Herman |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307420957 |
An exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy; how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution; and how thousands of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American frontier, the Australian outback, and the British Empire in India and Hong Kong. How the Scots Invented the Modern World reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegie and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporary culture, from William “Braveheart” Wallace to James Bond. And no one who takes this incredible historical trek will ever view the Scots—or the modern West—in the same way again.
Author | : John C. Weaver |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : 9780773525276 |
A critique of the greatest reallocation of resources in the history of the world and an analysis of its effects on indigenous peoples, the growth of property rights, and the evolution of ideas that make up the foundation of the modern world.