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Download or read book Unbuttoned written by Christopher Dummitt and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King died in 1950, the public knew little about his eccentric private life. In his final will King ordered the destruction of his private diaries, seemingly securing his privacy for good. Yet twenty-five years after King's death, the public was bombarded with stories about "Weird Willie," the prime minister who communed with ghosts and cavorted with prostitutes. Unbuttoned traces the transformation of the public’s knowledge and opinion of King's character, offering a compelling look at the changing way Canadians saw themselves and measured the importance of their leaders’ personal lives. Christopher Dummitt relates the strange posthumous tale of King's diary and details the specific decisions of King's literary executors. Along the way we learn about a thief in the public archives, stolen copies of King's diaries being sold on the black market, and an RCMP hunt for a missing diary linked to the search for Russian spies at the highest levels of the Canadian government. Analyzing writing and reporting about King, Dummitt concludes that the increasingly irreverent views of King can be explained by a fundamental historical transformation that occurred in the era in which King's diaries were released, when the rights revolution, Freud, 1960s activism, and investigative journalism were making self-revelation a cultural preoccupation. Presenting extensive archival research in a captivating narrative, Unbuttoned traces the rise of a political culture that privileged the individual as the ultimate source of truth, and made Canadians rethink what they wanted to know about politicians.
Book Synopsis William Lyon Mackenzie King, Volume II, 1924-1932 by : H. Blair Neatby
Download or read book William Lyon Mackenzie King, Volume II, 1924-1932 written by H. Blair Neatby and published by . This book was released on 1963-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cover"--"CONTENTS"--"PREFACE" -- "1 THE REINS OF OFFICE" -- "2 A MEASURE OF BOLDNESS" -- "3 EDUCATING DOWNING STREET" -- "4 IN SEARCH OF AN ISSUE" -- "5 THE HUNG JURY" -- "6 PARLIAMENT WILL DECIDE" -- "7 THE WILL OF THE MAJORITY" -- "8 A HOUSE DIVIDED" -- "9 THE JURY DECIDES" -- "10 DEFINING THE UNDEFINABLE" -- "11 THE GOOD LIFE" -- "12 TINKERING WITH FEDERALISM" -- "13 THE POLITICS OF PROSPERITY" -- "14 LOOKING SOUTH" -- "15 SHORING UP THE OLD ORDER" -- "16 THE CALL TO ACTION" -- "17 A REMEDY IS PRESCRIBED" -- "18 THE VALLEY OF HUMILIATION" -- "19 THE DISTORTIONS OF REALITY" -- "NOTES" -- "INDEX" -- "A" -- "B" -- "C" -- "D" -- "E" -- "F" -- "G" -- "H" -- "I" -- "J" -- "K" -- "L" -- "M" -- "N" -- "O" -- "P" -- "R" -- "S" -- "T" -- "U" -- "V
Book Synopsis The Secret of Heroism by : William Lyon Mackenzie King
Download or read book The Secret of Heroism written by William Lyon Mackenzie King and published by Ontario Publishing Company. This book was released on 1919 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Canadian Method of Preventing Strikes and Lockouts by : William Lyon Mackenzie King
Download or read book The Canadian Method of Preventing Strikes and Lockouts written by William Lyon Mackenzie King and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Industry and Humanity: A Study in the Principles Underlying Industrial Reconstruction by : W. L. Mackenzie King
Download or read book Industry and Humanity: A Study in the Principles Underlying Industrial Reconstruction written by W. L. Mackenzie King and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis William Lyon Mackenzie King by : lian goodall
Download or read book William Lyon Mackenzie King written by lian goodall and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mackenzie King (1874-1950) was Canadas tenth and longest serving prime minister and an important figure on the international scene, especially during the Second World War. This book provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of Mackenzie King.
Book Synopsis None is Too Many by : Irving M. Abella
Download or read book None is Too Many written by Irving M. Abella and published by New York : Random House. This book was released on 1983 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the evolution and execution of Canadian immigration policy during the Great Depression, when the pressure of unemployment prevented large-scaleimmigration of any kind, through World War II and its aftermath. During this period, immigration regulations were restrictive, with Jews, Orientals and blacks at the bottom of the list. The authors describe how, as in all democracies, Canada's policies and her public servants were subject to the will of the people and to political considerations.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Companion to Canadian History by : Gerald Hallowell
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Canadian History written by Gerald Hallowell and published by Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable guide to Canadian history is comprehensive, authoritative, and - above all - companionable. It is the essential guide to the significant events, issues, institutions, people, and places that have shaped Canadian life from earliest times to the late twentieth century.
Book Synopsis A Very Double Life by : C. P. Stacey
Download or read book A Very Double Life written by C. P. Stacey and published by Formac Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shrewd politician whose private life was one of bizzare and obsessive drives, sex life, love affairs, seances.
Download or read book King written by Allan Levine and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Lyon Mackenzie King, twice former Prime Minister of Canada, was a brilliant tactician, was passionately committed to Canadian unity, and was a protector of the underdog, introducing such cornerstones of Canada’s social safety net as unemployment insurance, family allowances and old-age pensions. At the same time, he was insecure, craved flattery, became upset at minor criticism, and was prone to fantasy—especially about the Tory conspiracy against him. King loosened the Imperial connection with Britain and was wary of American military and economic power. Yet he loved all things British and acted like a praised schoolboy when British Prime Minister Winston Churchill or U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt treated him as an equal. This first major biography of Mackenzie King in 30 years mines the pages of his remarkable diary, at 30,000 pages one of the most significant and revealing political documents in Canada’s history and a guide to the deep and often moving inner conflicts that haunted Mackenzie King. With animated prose and a subtle wit, Allan Levine draws a multidimensional portrait of this most compelling of politicians.
Book Synopsis White Canada Forever by : Peter Ward
Download or read book White Canada Forever written by Peter Ward and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002-02-08 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ward draws upon a rich record of events and opinion in the provincial press, manuscript collections, and successive federal enquiries and royal commissions on Asian immigration. He locates the origins of west coast racism in the frustrated vision of a white British Columbia and an unshakeable belief in the unassimilability of the Asian immigrant. Canadian attitudes were dominated by a series of interlocking, hostile stereotypes derived from western perceptions of Asia and modified by the encounter between whites and Asians on the north Pacific coast. Public pressure on local, provincial, and federal governments led to discriminatory policies in the field of immigration and employment, and culminated in the forced relocation of west coast Japanese residents during World War II.
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Book Synopsis Woodside and the Victorian Family of John King by : Murray William Nicolson
Download or read book Woodside and the Victorian Family of John King written by Murray William Nicolson and published by National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Parks Canada. This book was released on 1984 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John King Sr. (1814-1842) was born at Tyrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland and later came to Canada with the military. He married Christina McDougall, daughter of Alexander McDougall. Their son, John King, was born in 1843 in Toronto. He married Isabel MacKenzie in 1872. John and Isabel's son, William Lyon MacKenzie King, became Prime Minister of Canada.
Book Synopsis The Government Generation by : Doug Owram
Download or read book The Government Generation written by Doug Owram and published by . This book was released on 1986-09 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War, depression, secularization, urbanization, and the rise of industry – between 1900 and 1945 Canada struggled with all these developments, and from them was born the modern welfare state. New services were created, along with new taxes to pay for them and expanded bureaucracies to administer them. Government activity grew enormously; so did government expenditures. The role of the state in a modern industrialized society became the focus of a lively and continuing debate for two generations of intellectual reformers. Doug Owram looks back at that debate and the academics, civil servants, and political activists who engaged in it. Adam Short, W.L. Grant, Frank Underhill, W.C. Clark, Harold Innis, and many others exchanged ideas – sometimes cautiously, sometimes passionately – about the wisdom of planning and reform, and on practical schemes for their realization. Owram explores the reforming impulse and its political dimension: the impact of warm and depression on attitudes to the state, the League of Social Reconstruction and its relations with the CCF, R.B. Bennett’s New Deal, and the various changes of heart experienced over forty years by Mackenzie King. The Canada that emerged from the Second World War was very different from the one that had existed at the turn of the century relations between the individual and the state had altered drastically and irrevocably. The people examined in this book and the social and political movements in which they believed helped shape Canada’s response to powerful forces that were changing its way of life forever.
Book Synopsis The Persons Case by : Robert J. Sharpe
Download or read book The Persons Case written by Robert J. Sharpe and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-04-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 18 October 1929, John Sankey, England's reform-minded Lord Chancellor, ruled in the Persons case that women were eligible for appointment to Canada's Senate. Initiated by Edmonton judge Emily Murphy and four other activist women, the Persons case challenged the exclusion of women from Canada's upper house and the idea that the meaning of the constitution could not change with time. The Persons Case considers the case in its political and social context and examines the lives of the key players: Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, and the other members of the "famous five," the politicians who opposed the appointment of women, the lawyers who argued the case, and the judges who decided it. Robert J. Sharpe and Patricia I. McMahon examine the Persons case as a pivotal moment in the struggle for women's rights and as one of the most important constitutional decisions in Canadian history. Lord Sankey's decision overruled the Supreme Court of Canada's judgment that the courts could not depart from the original intent of the framers of Canada's constitution in 1867. Describing the constitution as a "living tree," the decision led to a reassessment of the nature of the constitution itself. After the Persons case, it could no longer be viewed as fixed and unalterable, but had to be treated as a document that, in the words of Sankey, was in "a continuous process of evolution." The Persons Case is a comprehensive study of this important event, examining the case itself, the ruling of the Privy Council, and the profound affect that it had on women's rights and the constitutional history of Canada.
Book Synopsis The History of Canada Series: Trouble on Main Street by : Julie F Gilmour
Download or read book The History of Canada Series: Trouble on Main Street written by Julie F Gilmour and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weather on the Labour Day weekend of 1907 was hot and tempers were short. British Columbians had always been sensitive to Asian immigration and had become increasingly fearful over the summer. More Japanese immigrants were coming to B.C. and rumours smouldered of massive labour contracts for the projected Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Like the citizens of Seattle and San Francisco, the residents of Vancouver had established a bipartisan Asiatic Exclusion League aimed at Japanese, Chinese, and South Asian immigrants in order to protect “White Canada.” The league had widespread support among trade union organizations and churches, and so a parade during the Labour Day weekend was scheduled. The result was a violent riot that drew the world’s attention to Vancouver, to Canadian immigration policy, and to Britain’s 1902 alliance with the Japanese. Historian Julie Gilmour traces the impact of these events on the life and work of future prime minister W.L. Mackenzie King, and on Canada’s relationships with Britain, the United States, China, Japan, and India. King’s involvement with the commissions set up to evaluate the damages incurred during the riots led to his interest in opium suppression and immigration control, and clarified his own sense of Canada’s role in the empire.Trouble on Main Street portrays a nation, and a time, at once relatively recent and shockingly unrecognizable. Over a century later, the links between local pressures, policy, and international events provide insight into current debates on terror, immigration, and Canadian security.
Download or read book None is Too Many written by Irving Abella and published by New Jewish Press. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important books in Canadian history, None Is Too Many conclusively lays to rest the comfortable notion that Canada has always been an accepting and welcoming society.
Download or read book W.L. Mackenzie King written by and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-12-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive bibliography on William Lyon Mackenzie King, the most prominent Canadian politician in the first half of the twentieth century, will be an invaluable reference tool for researchers in archives and libraries, as well as for political scientists, historians, journalists, and book collectors. In this volume Henderson provides comprehensive lists of books, articles, and other material written by King or about him and his era, and includes a series of appendices relating to studies on King and miscellaneous material pertaining to his life and career. In addition, Henderson provides a list of unsigned articles by King that appeared in newspapers and periodicals, and of sound recordings and motion picture footage relating to him. Finally, he identifies all forewords and prefaces written by King, plays written about him, and books and poems dedicated to him.
