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Nova Scotia's Lost Communities

Author : Joan Dawson
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1771086041
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Nova Scotia's Lost Communities written by Joan Dawson and published by Nimbus+ORM. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories and photos that bring the people and places of Nova Scotia’s historic past to life. Beaubassin was once a prosperous farming community at the head of the Cumberland Basin; Africville was the vibrant home of Black Nova Scotians who struggled to make a living and found spiritual solace in their church. Both are now gone, one a casualty of long-ago colonial warfare and the other a victim of misguided urban renewal. In this fascinating book, author Joan Dawson looks at thirty-seven of this Canadian province’s lost communities: places like Electric City, Indian Gardens, and the Tancook Islands. Some were home to ethnic groups forced to leave. Others, once dependent on factories, mills, or the fishery, died as the economy changed or resources were depleted. But they were all once places where Nova Scotians were born, married, worked, and died. Featuring over 60 archival and contemporary photos and illustrations, Nova Scotia’s Lost Communities preserves those memories with fascinating insights.

Africville

Author : Shauntay Grant
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1773060449
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Africville written by Shauntay Grant and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books When a young girl visits the site of Africville, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stories she’s heard from her family come to mind. She imagines what the community was once like — the brightly painted houses nestled into the hillside, the field where boys played football, the pond where all the kids went rafting, the bountiful fishing, the huge bonfires. Coming out of her reverie, she visits the present-day park and the sundial where her great- grandmother’s name is carved in stone, and celebrates a summer day at the annual Africville Reunion/Festival. Africville was a vibrant Black community for more than 150 years. But even though its residents paid municipal taxes, they lived without running water, sewers, paved roads and police, fire-truck and ambulance services. Over time, the city located a slaughterhouse, a hospital for infectious disease, and even the city garbage dump nearby. In the 1960s, city officials decided to demolish the community, moving people out in city dump trucks and relocating them in public housing. Today, Africville has been replaced by a park, where former residents and their families gather each summer to remember their community.

Muiwlanej kikamaqki "Honouring Our Ancestors"

Author : Janet E. Chute
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487546149
Total Pages : 1324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Muiwlanej kikamaqki "Honouring Our Ancestors" written by Janet E. Chute and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon oral and documentary evidence, this volume explores the lives of noteworthy Mi’kmaw individuals whose thoughts, actions, and aspirations impacted the history of the Northeast but whose activities were too often relegated to the shadows of history. The book highlights Mi’kmaw leaders who played major roles in guiding the history of the region between 1680 and 1980. It sheds light on their community and emigration policies, organizational and negotiating skills, diplomatic endeavours, and stewardship of land and resources. Contributors to the volume range from seasoned scholars with years of research in the field to Mi’kmaw students whose interest in their history will prove inspirational. Offering important new insights, the book re-centres Indigenous nationhood to alter the way we understand the field itself. The book also provides a lengthy index so that information may be retrieved and used in future research. Muiwlanej kikamaqki – Honouring Our Ancestors will engage the interest of Indigenous and non-Indigenous readers alike, engender pride in Mi’kmaw leadership legacies, and encourage Mi’kmaw youth and others to probe more deeply into the history of the Northeast.

Nova Scotia's Historic Inland Communities

Author : Joan Dawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781774710791
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Nova Scotia's Historic Inland Communities written by Joan Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative, photo-filled historical guide to Nova Scotia's inland communities from author of Nova Scotia's Historic Harbours and Nova Scotia's Lost Communities.

The Atlantic Provinces in Confederation

Author : E. R. Forbes
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802068170
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book The Atlantic Provinces in Confederation written by E. R. Forbes and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atlantic Provinces cover New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland.

Odysseys Home

Author : George Elliott Clarke
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802081919
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Odysseys Home written by George Elliott Clarke and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These tensions are revealed in the literature that Clarke argues to be - paradoxically - uniquely Canadian and proudly apart from a mainstream national identity."--BOOK JACKET.

In the Province of History

Author : Ian McKay
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773583319
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book In the Province of History written by Ian McKay and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using archival sources, novels, government reports, and works on tourism and heritage, Ian McKay and Robin Bates look at how state planners, key politicians, and cultural figures such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, long-time premier Angus L. Macdonald, and novelist Thomas Raddall were all instrumental in forming "tourism/history." The authors argue that Longfellow's 1847 poem Evangeline - on the brutal British expulsion of Acadians from Nova Scotia - became a template a new kind of profit-making history that exalted whiteness and excluded ethnic minorities, women, and working class movements. A remarkable look at the intersection of politics, leisure, and the presentation of public history, In the Province of History is a revealing account of how a region has both used and distorted its own past.

Annual Report of the Secretary for Agriculture, Nova Scotia

Author : Nova Scotia. Office of Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Secretary for Agriculture, Nova Scotia written by Nova Scotia. Office of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

People of the Wachusett

Author : David P. Jaffee
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501725823
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book People of the Wachusett written by David P. Jaffee and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nashaway became Lancaster, Wachusett became Princeton, and all of Nipmuck County became the county of Worcester. Town by town, New England grew—Watertown, Sudbury, Turkey Hills, Fitchburg, Westminster, Walpole—and with each new community the myth of America flourished. In People of the Wachusett the history of the New England town becomes the cultural history of America's first frontier. Integral to this history are the firsthand narratives of town founders and citizens, English, French, and Native American, whose accounts of trading and warring, relocating and putting down roots proved essential to the building of these communities. Town plans, local records, broadside ballads, vernacular house forms and furniture, festivals—all come into play in this innovative book, giving a rich picture of early Americans creating towns and crafting historical memory. Beginning with the Wachusett, in northern Worcester County, Massachusetts, David Jaffee traces the founding of towns through inland New England and Nova Scotia, from the mid-seventeenth century through the Revolutionary Era. His history of New England's settlement is one in which the replication of towns across the landscape is inextricable from the creation of a regional and national culture, with stories about colonization giving shape and meaning to New England life.

Black Loyalists

Author : Ruth Holmes Whithead
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1771080175
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Black Loyalists written by Ruth Holmes Whithead and published by Nimbus+ORM. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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

Why Canada Needs Postal Banking

Author : John Anderson
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039188427
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Why Canada Needs Postal Banking written by John Anderson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In almost half the communities in small town and rural Canada that have a post office, there are no bank or credit union branches; Only about fifty-four bank and credit union branches exist in the over 615 First Nations communities in Canada; A growing number of urban areas in Canada have no accessible banks or credit unions Why Canada Needs Postal Banking offers a plethora of information about the banking industry that will shock ordinary Canadians. In explaining the banking system that many of us take for granted, the author reveals a deep, and largely unrecognized, gap between the services offered in densely populated, urban spaces and those available in small towns, rural and remote regions, and Indigenous communities. As a solution to this dearth in services, John Anderson proposes a logical alternative to big, private-sector banks: the post office. Basing his argument on historical fact, international experience, and the exorbitant cost of traditional banking services, the author builds a logical and compelling case for reestablishing banking services at Canada Post. Composed of a collection of research papers, interviews, and opinion pieces, Why Canada Needs Postal Banking provides convincing and well-organized data to support the reintroduction of postal service banking in Canada. Readers can absorb survey results that document citizen, municipality, and union support for this strategy. Tables and graphics provide easy access for those who want to assess the statistical facts and figures at a glance. Written in clear, succinct, and transparent language, Why Canada Needs Postal Banking engages the reader while delivering surprising information. In a landscape where challenges seem overwhelming much of the time, this book proposes a solution that, while not without its difficulties, is implementable. It delivers answers and alternatives that support business and individuals’ needs in different parts of the economy that have been, for too long and too often, overlooked.

National Politics and Community in Canada

Author : R. Kenneth Carty
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774802482
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book National Politics and Community in Canada written by R. Kenneth Carty and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors in this collection challenge traditional notions of the 'minority' and explore Canada's national political system and institutions as a unit.

Reconciling Canada

Author : Jennifer Henderson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442695471
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Reconciling Canada written by Jennifer Henderson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth and reconciliation commissions and official governmental apologies continue to surface worldwide as mechanisms for coming to terms with human rights violations and social atrocities. As the first scholarly collection to explore the intersections and differences between a range of redress cases that have emerged in Canada in recent decades, Reconciling Canada provides readers with the contexts for understanding the phenomenon of reconciliation as it has played out in this multicultural settler state. In this volume, leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences relate contemporary political and social efforts to redress wrongs to the fraught history of government relations with Aboriginal and diasporic populations. The contributors offer ground-breaking perspectives on Canada’s ‘culture of redress,’ broaching questions of law and constitutional change, political coalitions, commemoration, testimony, and literatures of injury and its aftermath. Also assembled together for the first time is a collection of primary documents – including government reports, parliamentary debates, and redress movement statements – prefaced with contextual information. Reconciling Canada provides a vital and immensely relevant illumination of the dynamics of reconciliation, apology, and redress in contemporary Canada.

Educationalization and Its Complexities

Author : Rosa Bruno-Jofre
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487532075
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Educationalization and Its Complexities written by Rosa Bruno-Jofre and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection brings together scholars from Canadian and international institutions to discuss educationalization, a trend in modern societies that involves transferring social responsibilities onto the school system. This book brings a new dimension to the literature on educationalization by examining the concept in relation to Catholicism, Indigenous issues, the right to education, and historical studies grounded in both Canada and Chile. In these contributions, the book represents an attempt to both deepen the current discussion on the construction and use of educationalization as a concept as well as invite further exploration of this subject in relation to the increasing digitalization of life in the twenty-first century.

Oak Island and Its Lost Treasure

Author : Graham Harris
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company Limited
ISBN 13 : 1459502604
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Oak Island and Its Lost Treasure written by Graham Harris and published by Formac Publishing Company Limited. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil engineers Graham Harris and Les MacPhie have spent over a decade investigating the enigma of Nova Scotia's Oak Island. In this new edition of their book, they set out the previously unknown story of how complex and expensive engineering work was undertaken to create an elaborate flood tunnel on the island. Built to frustrate treasure seekers attempting to get at the valuables buried decades earlier at the bottom of the island's Money Pit, the tunnel has admirably served its purpose. It has ensured that all efforts up to now to recover the treasure have been unsuccessful. Oak Island poses two different challenges for treasure seekers. There is a deep mine shaft, at the bottom of which the treasure lies. The authors offer evidence that this treasure came from the wreck of a Spanish galleon in the seventeenth century. Even more mystifying than the mine shaft is the complex tunnel which links it to the ocean. Harris and MacPhie have determined that the project would have required a labour force of over 100 men to supplement a small force of experienced miners. The work would have taken almost two years to complete. In new chapters written for this edition, they present the evidence they have discovered in British military history records which shows who commanded this force, how it reached Nova Scotia, and when the work was carried out. The new facts and insights offered in this book are a startling and convincing addition to the history of Oak Island.

Routes of Passage

Author : Ruth Simms Hamilton
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628954604
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Routes of Passage written by Ruth Simms Hamilton and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routes of Passage provides a conceptual, substantive, and empirical orientation to the study of African people worldwide. Routes of Passage addresses issues of geographical mobility and geosocial displacement; changing cultural, political, and economic relationships between Africa and its diaspora; interdiaspora relations; political and economic agency and social mobilization, including cultural production and psychocultural transformation; existence in hostile and oppressive political and territorial space; and confronting interconnected relations of social inequality, especially class, gender, nationality, and race.

Faces of Environmental Racism

Author : Laura Westra
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742579506
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Faces of Environmental Racism written by Laura Westra and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2001-06-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racial minorities in the United States are disproportionately exposed to toxic wastes and other environmental hazards, and cleanup efforts in their communities are slower and less thorough than efforts elsewhere. Internationally, wealthy countries of the North increasingly ship hazardous wastes to poorer countries of the South, resulting in such tragedies as the disaster at Bhopal. Through case studies that highlight the type of information that is seldom reported in the news, Faces of Environmental Racism exposes the type and magnitude of environmental racism, both domestic and international. The essays explore the justice of current environmental practices, asking such questions as whether cost-benefit analysis is an appropriate analytic technique and whether there are alternate routes to sustainable development in the South. The second edition of this unique volume further explores the ongoing problem of environmental racism. With a new introduction and preface, and new chapters by such experts as Charles W. Mills, Robert Melchior Figueroa, and Segun Gbadegesin, the second edition of Faces of Environmental Racism carries on the work of the first.