Canada Firsts
Author | : Ralph Nader |
Publisher | : Country Roads Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780936758251 |
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Author | : Ralph Nader |
Publisher | : Country Roads Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780936758251 |
Author | : Ruth Holmes Whithead |
Publisher | : Nimbus+ORM |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2014-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1771080175 |
“Engaging and steeped in years of research . . . a must read for all who care about the intersection of Canadian, American, British, and African history.” —Lawrence Hill, award-winning author of Someone Knows My Name In an attempt to ruin the American economy during the Revolutionary War, the British government offered freedom to slaves who would desert their rebel masters. Many Black men and women escaped to the British fleet patrolling the East Coast, or to the British armies invading the colonies from Maine to Georgia. After the final surrender of the British to the Americans, New York City was evacuated by the British Army throughout the summer and fall of 1783. Carried away with them were a vast number of White Loyalists and their families, and over 3,000 Black Loyalists: free, indentured, apprenticed, or still enslaved. More than 2,700 Black people came to Nova Scotia with the fleet from New York City. Black Loyalists strives to present hard data about the lives of Nova Scotia Black Loyalists before they escaped slavery in early South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and after they settled in Nova Scotia—to tell the little-known story of some very brave and enterprising men and women who survived the chaos of the American Revolution, people who found a way to pass through the heart, ironically, of a War for Liberty, to find their own liberty and human dignity. Includes historical images and documents
Author | : Jonathan Anuik |
Publisher | : University of Regina Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0889772401 |
Takes readers through one calendar year of Aboriginal history, providing visuals and details of past and contemporary achievements and challenges of First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples of Canada.
Author | : Constance Backhouse |
Publisher | : Second Story Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2019-03-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1772600946 |
Bertha Wilson and Claire L’Heureux-Dubé were the first women judges on the Supreme Court of Canada. Their 1980s judicial appointments delighted feminists and shocked the legal establishment. Polar opposites in background and temperament, the two faced many identical challenges. Constance Backhouse’s compelling narrative explores the sexist roadblocks both women faced in education, law practice, and in the courts. She profiles their different ways of coping, their landmark decisions for women’s rights, and their less stellar records on race. To explore the lives and careers of these two path-breaking women is to venture into a world of legal sexism from a past era. The question becomes, how much of that sexism has been relegated to the bins of history, and how much continues?
Author | : Frances Brooke |
Publisher | : New Canadian Library |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2010-04-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1551993732 |
This charming love story captures the lives of Quebec City’s early English-speaking inhabitants, the Québécois, and the Native people, in the decade between Wolfe’s victory on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 and the American War of Independence in the 1770s. First published in 1769, The History of Emily Montague, which brings the 18th-century novel into a New World context, is rightly called Canada’s – indeed North America’s – first novel.
Author | : Olive Patricia Dickason |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Presents a concise history of Canada's original inhabitants, Indians, Inuit, and Metis.
Author | : Alan D. McMillan |
Publisher | : D & M Publishers |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2009-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1926706846 |
First Peoples in Canada provides an overview of all the Aboriginal groups in Canada. Incorporating the latest research in anthropology, archaeology, ethnography and history, this new edition describes traditional ways of life, traces cultural changes that resulted from contacts with the Europeans, and examines the controversial issues of land claims and self-government that now affect Aboriginal societies. Most importantly, this generously illustrated edition incorporates a Nativist perspective in the analysis of Aboriginal cultures.
Author | : Jean-Luc Pilon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Indian art |
ISBN | : 9781442616769 |
This beautifully designed, full-colour book presents a collection of 150 archaeological and ethnographic objects produced by Canada's First Peoples - including some that are roughly 12,000 years old - that represent spectacular expressions of creativity and ingenuity.
Author | : Lisa Wojna |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 9781894864756 |
Canadians don't spend a lot of time bragging, but as this collection shows, our citizens have a lot to be proud of--the many amazing firsts that have come from this country and its people and their impact on our culture and the world: * Alexander MacKenzie was the first recorded explorer to complete the transcontinental crossing of North America * In 1885, Banff National Park was the first patch of land ever recognized as a national park * Canadian-born Gideon Sundback was the first to patent a ''separable fastener,'' a.k.a. the zipper, in 1913 * The first kidney transplant performed between identical twins took place at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital in 1958 * Montreal's Maurice Richard was the first hockey player to record a 50-goal season in 1944-45 and the first to score more than 500 goals in his career * The Hudson's Bay Company, established on May 2, 1670, is the oldest, continuously operating company on the continent * The 12.9-kilometre-long Confederation Bridge between mainland Canada and Prince Edward Island is the world's longest uninterrupted span * In 1962, at just 15 years old, Petra Burka became the first woman figure skater in the world to complete a triple Salchow * And so much more.