In the Province of History

In the Province of History
Author: Ian McKay
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0773537031
GET BOOK

How a region sells - and misrepresents - its past

The Island of Seven Cities

The Island of Seven Cities
Author: Paul Chiasson
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2013-09-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1466852100
GET BOOK

The Island of Seven Cities unveils the first tangible proof that the Chinese settled in the New World before Columbus. In the summer of 2003, architect Paul Chiasson decided to climb a mountain he had never explored on Cape Breton Island, where eight generations of his Acadian family had lived. One of the oldest points of exploration and settlement in the Americas, with a written history dating back to the first days of European discovery, Cape Breton is littered with remnants of old settlements. But that day Chiasson found a road that was unique. Well made and consistently wide, and at one time clearly bordered with stone walls, the road had been a major undertaking. But he could find no record of it. In the two years of detective work that followed, Chiasson systematically surveyed the history of Europeans in North America and came to a stunning conclusion: the ruins he had stumbled upon – an entire townsite on a mountaintop---did not belong to the Portuguese, the French, the English, or the Scots. And they predated John Cabot's 1497 "discovery" of the island. Using aerial and site photographs, maps and drawings, and his own expertise as an architect, Chiasson re-creates how he pieced together the clues to one of the world's great mysteries: a large Chinese colony existed and thrived on Canadian shores well before the European Age of Discovery. He addresses how the ruins had been previously overlooked or misunderstood, and how the colony was abandoned and forgotten, in China and in the New World. And he discovers the traces the colony left in the storytelling and culture of the Mi'kmaq, whose written language, clothing, technical knowledge, religious beliefs, and legends, he argues, expose deep cultural ties to China. A gripping account of an earth-shaking discovery, The Island of Seven Cities will change the way we think about our world.

A Practical Guide for Tourists, Miners, and Investors, and All Persons Interested in the Development of the Gold Fields of Nova Scotia

A Practical Guide for Tourists, Miners, and Investors, and All Persons Interested in the Development of the Gold Fields of Nova Scotia
Author: Alexander Heatherington
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230377858
GET BOOK

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX II. PRESENT MINING LAWS OF NOVA SCOTIA. REVISED STATUTES OF MINES AND MINERALS. Passed the 10th day of May, A.d. 1864. Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. The word "mine," in this chapter, shall mean any locality in which any vein, stratum, or natural bed, of coal, or of metaliferous ore, or rock, shall, or may, be worked. The verb "to mine," in this chapter, shall include any mode or method of working whatsoever, whereby the ore, earth, or soil, or any rock, may be disturbed, removed, washed, sifted, smelted, refined, crushed, or otherwise dealt with, for the purpose of obtaining Gold, Coal, Iron, Copper, or any other other ore, or metallic substance, and whether the same may have been previously disturbed, or not. 2. Gold bearing quartz shall be held to mean all auriferous rock in silu. 3. Gold elsewhere than in rock in situ, shall mean alluvial mines. 4. The Governor in Council is hereby authorized to cselet and appoint, when and so often as occasion may require, a suitable person to act as Chief Gommissioner of Mines for the Province, and suitable persons to act as Deputy Commissioners of Mines in the several districts, hereinafter provided for, one of whom shall be named Provincial Deputy Commissioner, and to define the limits of their jurisdiction respectively; and by virtue of and during the continuance of such appointment, such Chief Commissioner of Mines within all the Gold Districts, and such Deputies within the districts to which they are respectively appointed, shall exercise the power of Justices of the Peace; provided always that no such Commissioner shall act as a Justice of the Peace, at any court of general or special sessions, or in any matter out of session except for the...

The Spirit of Industry and Improvement

The Spirit of Industry and Improvement
Author: Daniel Samson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2008-04-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0773574964
GET BOOK

The notion of improvement permeated social and political discourse in colonial Canadian society. From agriculture to building roads and mills to defining correct habits and behaviour, Nova Scotia's improvers embraced the ideals of innovation and progress and promoted modern programs of government. Daniel Samson moves Nova Scotia and rural Canada from the colonial margins to the heart of a modernizing society, showing how the countryside functioned as a centre of change and innovation. He connects a fascinating spectrum of sites, actors, and strategies and links settlement, farm-building, rural market formation, and early industrialization to the heterogeneous strategies of families and state actors, the rural poor, and rural elites. The Spirit of Industry and Improvement presents the first-ever overview of rural colonial Nova Scotia and provides compelling insights into the formation of modern liberal practices of government and self-government in British North America.