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A Brief History Of Orillia Ontarios Sunshine City
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Book Synopsis A Brief History of Orillia: Ontario's Sunshine City by : Dennis Rizzo
Download or read book A Brief History of Orillia: Ontario's Sunshine City written by Dennis Rizzo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local author Dennis Rizzo tells the fascinating and diverse history of Orillia, Ontario. First populated by the Huron, Iroquois and Chippewa Nations, Orillia is now a well-loved, year-round recreation destination. Its history is deeply tied to its water. Situated in the narrows where Lake Simcoe flows into Lake Couchiching, Orillia was a gathering place for centuries before Europeans used it to bring furs to market. Sir John Simcoe, first governor of Upper Canada, fostered permanent settlement of the area. A gateway to the Muskoka region, it has been home to lumber, manufacturing, and artistic endeavours. Today, summer cottagers and winter athletes alike enjoy the Sunshine City and its more than twenty annual festivals. Local author Dennis Rizzo tells the fascinating and diverse history of Orillia, Ontario.
Book Synopsis The Orillia Spirit by : Randy Richmond
Download or read book The Orillia Spirit written by Randy Richmond and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2017-07-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Orillia Museum of Art & History Award, Historical Publications and/or Research — Winner The history of Orillia, told through the stories of its people, bringing to life the community’s heritage and significance. The Orillia Spirit: Muddling through Canada’s first, and hilarious, experiment with daylight savings time, Mayor “Daylight Bill” Frost had it. Creating his own money and dreaming a drainage ditch would become a tourist attraction, Mayor Ben Johnson had it. Taking his town’s electric company by force, Mayor J.B. Tudhope had it. Inventing early forms of medicare and the first RVs, dreaming of universities and folk festivals, battling for decades over liquor and rinks, ordinary people had it. Something about the place immortalized in Stephen Leacock’s classic Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town has always inspired its people to reach for their dreams. Turn-of-the-twentieth-century leaders coined the phrase “the Orillia Spirit” to describe their drive to make the town a social, moral, and economic leader of Canada. The results have been comic, tragic, and heroic, as shown in this colourful history of Orillia.
Book Synopsis Zen And The Art Of Building A Log Cabin by : Martin Avery
Download or read book Zen And The Art Of Building A Log Cabin written by Martin Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about the causes of happiness and the secrets of enlightenment and Zen, set in the Zen Forest.
Download or read book Love and Death written by Martin Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great Loop Experience - From Concept to Completion by : George Hospodar
Download or read book The Great Loop Experience - From Concept to Completion written by George Hospodar and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After almost 40 years of marriage and boating together, Captain George and Pat Hospodar completed a yearlong Great Loop odyssey aboard their boat, “Reflection”. This trip resulted in their first book, Reflection on America’s Great Loop, a personal, light-hearted, real-life account of the couple’s travels while circumnavigating the waters of the United States and Canada. Their newest book, The Great Loop Experience – from Concept to Completion, is a comprehensive guide written to help others plan, prepare, and successfully execute their own Great Loop adventures. It also addresses the questions that these authors/lecturers are most frequently asked by future “Loopers”. Some of the many topics covered include: selecting and equipping your boat, choosing your route, financial considerations and trip costs, managing your onboard life, vessel security, Customs and border crossings, boating protocol, locking procedures, safely negotiating the waterways, open-water crossings, and great stops along the way. This how-to guide not only informs and educates you, but also hopes to inspire those who want to one day make this wonderful journey! The Great Loop Experience has the information you need so that you can confidently and knowledge- ably cast off your lines for your own exhilarating Great Loop adventure!
Book Synopsis Stories, Identities, and Political Change by : Charles Tilly
Download or read book Stories, Identities, and Political Change written by Charles Tilly and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2002-10-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning sociologist, Charles Tilly has been equally influential in explaining politics, history, and how societies change. Tilly’s newest book tackles fundamental questions about the nature of personal, political, and national identities and their linkage to big events—revolutions, social movements, democratization, and other processes of political and social change. Tilly focuses in this book on the role of stories, as means of creating personal identity, but also as explanations, true or false, of political tensions and realities. He uses well-known examples from around the world—the Zapatista rebellion, Hindu-Muslim conflicts, and other examples in which nationalism and other forms of group identity are politically pivotal. Tilly writes with the immediacy of a journalist, but the profound insight of a great theorist.
Book Synopsis Gravenhurst And Bethune And China: A Long Poem Chronicling A Road Trip From Toronto To Muskoka And Back Again by : Martin Avery
Download or read book Gravenhurst And Bethune And China: A Long Poem Chronicling A Road Trip From Toronto To Muskoka And Back Again written by Martin Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gravenhurst And Bethune And China: A Long Poem Chronicling A Road Trip From Toronto To Muskoka And Back Again is a book with a purpose: the author makes the case for changing the name of the town of Gravenhurst to Bethune while describing iconic Canadian travels in the summertime.
Book Synopsis The Mariposa Folk Festival by : Michael Hill
Download or read book The Mariposa Folk Festival written by Michael Hill and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2017-05-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at folk music’s legendary home ground. From Pete Seeger to Serena Ryder, the musicians who have graced the stages at Mariposa have carried on a living tradition of folk music connecting the sixties to the present day and tomorrow. Featuring interviews with the people behind the scenes and artists like Gordon Lightfoot and Ken Whitely.
Book Synopsis Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by : Stephen Leacock
Download or read book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town written by Stephen Leacock and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2002-08-12 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the fictional landscape of Mariposa on the shores of Lake Wissanotti in Missinaba County, Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is an affectionate satire of small town life. This series of humourous connected sketches about graft, high finance, religion, love and romance is, on one level, an intimate, comic portrait of town life and local politics. On another level, the narrative is a powerful commentary on the workings of community values and on Canada’s place within the British Empire. The Broadview edition includes a critical introduction, thorough annotation, a list of textual variants, and a range of contextual materials, including Leacock’s stage adaptation of Sunshine Sketches.
Book Synopsis Stephen Leacock's Mariposa by : Daphne Mainprize
Download or read book Stephen Leacock's Mariposa written by Daphne Mainprize and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the magic of Leacock's Mariposa via a walking tour of Orillia. In 1912 Stephen Leacock began the serialized publication of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Within the pages of the stories he immortalized Orillia, Ontario, and its citizens. One hundred years later Orillia, ''''The Sunshine City,'''' still answers to the name Mariposa. The impact and legacy of Leacock's work continues to inspire and define the Orillia of today.Visitors come to Orillia from far and wide, not only to see Leacock's summer home, now a National Historic Site, but also to seek a Leacockian experience, for it is here that Leacock called ''''home'''', including himself among the characters of Sunshine Sketches.This walking tour guide of Stephen Leacock's Mariposa invites you to explore the history, people, and places through the eyes of Leacock and experience the magic that is Mariposa.
Book Synopsis Language, Schooling, and Cultural Conflict by : Chad Gaffield
Download or read book Language, Schooling, and Cultural Conflict written by Chad Gaffield and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian City written by Gilbert Stelter and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1984-12-15 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emphasis is on urban society, with new essays on social structure, the family, ethnicity and immigration, and religion. Other sections are devoted to urban growth, the physical environment, and urban government and reform.
Book Synopsis The Singer-Songwriter Handbook by : Justin Williams
Download or read book The Singer-Songwriter Handbook written by Justin Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The singer-songwriter, someone who writes and performs their own music, is an ever-present and increasingly complex figure in popular music worlds. The Singer-Songwriter Handbook provides a useful resource for student songwriters, active musicians, fans and scholars alike. This handbook is divided into four main sections: Songwriting (acoustic and digital), Performance, Music Industry and Case Studies. Section I focuses on the 'how to' elements of popular song composition, embracing a range of perspectives and methods, in addition to chapters on the teaching of songwriting to students. Section II deals with the nature of performance: stagecraft, open mic nights, and a number of case studies that engage with performing in a range of contexts. Section III is devoted to aspects of the music industry and the business of music including sales, contract negotiations, copyright, social media and marketing. Section IV provides specific examples of singer-songwriter personae and global open mic scenes. The Singer-Songwriter Handbook is a much-needed single resource for budding singer-songwriters as well as songwriting pedagogues.
Book Synopsis The Old Brewery Bay by : James A. "Pete" McGarvey
Download or read book The Old Brewery Bay written by James A. "Pete" McGarvey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1994-01-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here we have the personal account of the misadventures that preceded the opening to the public of the Leacock home in 1958. Forty years ago, in October 1954, a committee was formed, chaired by Pete McGarvey, to acquire and preserve Stephen Leacock's summer home, known as The Old Brewery Bay. Four years later a golden key opened the front door of the home, allowing Leacock fans to pay homage to the humorist in a setting he had prized above every other. As the years have passed, appreciation of Leacock's genius has grown and today the Leacock Museum is open year-round to visitors from all parts of the globe. The Old Brewery Bay is a Leacockian yarn full of ironies, the greatest one being that the salvation of Leacock's home was accomplished not by a national campaign involving governments, philanthropists, McGill alumni, and foundations (all of whom were approached in a spirit of urgency and all of whom backed away), but by a gang of naive and stubborn Orillians, using old-fashioned political moxie. Leacock would have loved that - his Mariposans showing the big sophisticated world how to get things done.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of American Humorists by : Steven H. Gale
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Humorists written by Steven H. Gale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.
Book Synopsis Canadian Literary Landmarks by : John Robert Colombo
Download or read book Canadian Literary Landmarks written by John Robert Colombo and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian Literary Landmarks
Book Synopsis Transcultural Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui by : Elizabeth Sabiston
Download or read book Transcultural Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui written by Elizabeth Sabiston and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Transcultural Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui: A New Ulysses, Elizabeth Sabiston analyses the dominant theme of transcultural migration, or immigration, in the experimental fiction of Hédi Bouraoui. His protagonists are seen as Ulysses-figures for the postmodern age, crossing boundaries of language as well as geography
