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Author : John Irvine Little
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ethno-cultural Transition and Regional Identity in the Eastern Townships of Quebec written by John Irvine Little and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.I. Little
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442658762
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book The Other Quebec written by J.I. Little and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eastern Townships region of southwestern Quebec is an area of unique culture and history. Surrounded by a French-speaking majority, yet predominantly settled by Americans and British emigrants, the area has historically been distinguished by its anglo-protestant character. In The Other Quebec, J.I. Little – one of the foremost scholars on the Eastern Townships and on rural society in Canada – assembles seven of his essays and one by Marguerite Van Die on this unique region into one volume. The collection examines the role and influence of religion in the Eastern Townships. Little uses a microhistorical method, focusing on individuals who left behind informative and revealing diaries or personal letters, including those of a religious ecstatic, an Anglican clergyman, a genteel Englishwoman, and an entrepreneur. Through intimate glimpses into the lives of ordinary people, The Other Quebec explores some of the complex ways that religious institutions and beliefs affected the rural societies in which the majority of Canadians still lived in the nineteenth century. Little provides an intimate look at both a time and a place of singular importance and unique character in Canadian history.
Author : Roderick MacLeod
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773526951
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Meeting of the People written by Roderick MacLeod and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the local school board as a key political and social institution in Protestant communities in Quebec.
Author : Scott A. McLean
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770703284
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)
Download or read book William Wye Smith written by Scott A. McLean and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-11-10 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emphasized the virtues of early rural pioneers and life on the land as a general criticism of what they perceived to be the negative, alienating influence of Ontario’s rapid urban and industrial expansion. Such work often highlighted the difficulties the recent emigrant faced: the clearing of forest and the breaking of new ground, the isolation and long Canadian winters; however they in turn celebrated the progress demonstrated in the pioneer’s domination over nature, the establishment of thriving communities and the extension of transportation networks. William Wye Smith, a popular nineteenth century Upper Canadian poet, was no exception. Smith prepared his Canadian Reminiscences, a hand-written compilation of anecdotes collected during his lifetime that relate to his experience as journalist, clergyman and son of Scottish settlers, to provide his own unique perspective of pioneer life. This fully annotated version of Smith’s unpublished manuscript highlights Smith’s unwitting testimony to the social life of the province, his relationship to the construction and maintenance of Scottish and Canadian identity, as well as his position in literary history.
Author : John A. Dickinson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773577262
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Quebec written by John A. Dickinson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008-09-19 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John A. Dickinson and Brian Young bring a refreshing perspective to the history of Quebec, focusing on the social and economic development of the region as well as the identity issues of its diverse peoples. This revised fourth edition covers Quebec's recent political history and includes an updated bibliography and chronology and new illustrations. A Canadian classic, A Short History of Quebec now takes into account such issues as the 1995 referendum, recent ideological shifts and societal changes, considers Quebec's place in North America in the light of NAFTA, and offers reflections on the Gérard Bouchard-Charles Taylor Commission on Accommodation and Cultural Differences in 2008.
Author : Darcy Ingram
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774821426
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Wildlife, Conservation, and Conflict in Quebec, 1840-1914 written by Darcy Ingram and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the popular assumption that wildlife conservation is a recent phenomenon, it emerged over a century and a half ago in an era more closely associated with wildlife depletion than preservation. In Wildlife, Conservation, and Conflict in Quebec, Darcy Ingram explores the combination of NGOs, fish and game clubs, and state-administered leases that formed the basis of a unique system of wildlife conservation in North America. Inspired by a longstanding belief in progress, improvement, and social order based on European as well as North American models, this system effectively privatized Quebec’s fish and game resources, often to the detriment of commercial and subsistence hunters and fishers.
Author : J.I. Little
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228007496
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent written by J.I. Little and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal journals examined in Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent are not the witty, erudite, and gracefully written exercises that have drawn the attention of most biographers and literary scholars. Prosaic, ungrammatical, and poorly spelled, the fifteen surviving volumes of Henry Trent's hitherto unexamined diaries are nevertheless a treasure for the social and cultural historian. Henry Trent was born in England in 1826, the son of a British naval officer. When he was still a boy, his father decided to begin a new life as a landed gentleman and moved the family to Lower Canada. At the age of sixteen Trent began writing in a diary, which he maintained, intermittently, for more than fifty years. As a lonely youth he narrates days spent hunting and trapping in the woods owned by his father. On the threshold of manhood and in search of a vocation, he writes about his experiences in London and then on Vancouver Island during the gold rush. And finally, as the father of a large family, he describes the daily struggle to make ends meet on the farm he inherited in Quebec's lower St Francis valley. As it follows Trent through the different stages of his long life, Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent explores the complexities of class and colonialism, gender roles within the rural family, and the transition from youth to manhood to old age. The diaries provide a rare opportunity to read the thoughts and follow the experiences of a man who, like many Victorian-era immigrants of the privileged class, struggled to adapt to the Canadian environment during the rise of the industrial age.
Author : John Little
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442692499
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Loyalties in Conflict written by John Little and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their strategic location on the American border, the townships of Lower Canada have been largely ignored in studies of the War of 1812 and the Rebellions of 1837-38. Originally settled by Loyalists from New York, and followed by much larger numbers of land seekers from New England, this was a potentially volatile borderland during British-American conflicts. J.I. Little's Loyalties in Conflict examines how the allegiance to British authority of the American-origin population within the borders of Lower Canada was tested by the War of 1812 and the Rebellions of 1837-1838. Little argues that while loyalties were highly localized, American border raids during the war caused a defensive reaction north of the 45th parallel. The resulting sense of distinction from neighbouring Vermont, with its radical religious and political culture, did not prevent a strong regional reform movement from emerging in the eastern townships during the 1820s and 1830s. This movement undermines the argument of Quebec's nationalist historians that the political contest in Lower Canada was essentially a French-English one, but the dual threat of French-Canadian and American nationalism did ensure the border townships's loyalty to the government during the rebellions. The following years would witness the development of an increasingly conservative and distinctly Canadian cultural identity in the region. A rigorous study of a pivotal period in North American history, Loyalties in Conflict is a fascinating account of conflicting forces in one region that, like the rest of Canada, has been largely shaped by the interaction of American and British influences, as well as French-language and English-language ones.
Author : Brian J. Young
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773512351
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Politics of Codification written by Brian J. Young and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of a pivotal event in the evolution of Quebec's legal culture, Brian Young shows that codification of the Civil law was an intensely political act as well as a legal phenomenon.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of Eastern Townships Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Irvine Little
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487510438
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Fashioning the Canadian Landscape written by John Irvine Little and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpretations of Canada's emerging identity have been largely based on a relatively small corpus of literary writing and landscape paintings, overlooking the influence of the British and American travel writers who published hundreds of books and articles that did much to fix the image of Canada in the popular imagination. In Fashioning the Canadian Landscape, J.I. Little examines how Canada, much like the United States, came to be identified with its natural landscape. Little argues that in contrast to the American identification with the wilderness sublime, however, Canada’s image was strongly influenced by the picturesque convention favoured by British travel writers. This amply illustrated volume includes chapters ranging from Labrador to British Columbia, some of which focus on such notable British authors as Rupert Brooke and Rudyard Kipling, and others on talented American writers such as Charles Dudley Warner. Based not only on the views of the landscape but on the racist descriptions of the Indigenous peoples and the romanticization of the Canadian ‘folk’, Little argues that the national image that emerged was colonialist as well as colonial in nature.
Author : John Clarke
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773581251
Total Pages : 773 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book The Ordinary People of Essex written by John Clarke and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarke covers a remarkable number of topics, including geographic factors in the choice of agricultural land, land acquisition and clearance, energy expended in clearing and planting the land, and selection of specific crops and their extent and yields in particular combinations of soils. He also investigates the geographic parameters for wheat production - which drove the local economy - and the cultural origins of farmers as it relates to their use of intensive and extensive agriculture. Brimming with detail and expert analysis, The Ordinary People of Essex is an illuminating study of settler life and the conditions that make it possible to found a community. It complements the author's award-winning Land, Power, and Economics.
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Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book LLT written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. M. Elofson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773521001
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Cowboys, Gentlemen, and Cattle Thieves written by W. M. Elofson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prostitution, gunfights, barroom brawls and cattle rustling - while prevailing images from the American old West - have typically been absent from histories of the Canadian frontier. In Cowboys, Gentlemen, and Cattle Thieves Warren Elofson demonstrates that the Canadian frontier was less restrained, law-abiding, and insulated from death and violence than has been believed. He challenges traditional views that Canadian ranching society was a microcosm of the "Old World," arguing that the greatest influence on ranchers and settlers was the need to deal with the frontier environment.
Author : J. Little
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773565140
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Child Letters written by J. Little and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995-01-18 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child came to Lower Canada from Massachussetts in 1812 and made his fortune as a smuggler during the War of 1812. He later became a merchant and druggist and then entered politics, serving as MLA for Stanstead County in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The letters provide the first detailed history of Eastern Township politics during the 1840s. They are also an excellent source of information for the social historian, reflecting the concerns of a nineteenth-century Canadian family who were not part of the small British-born élite. Issues discussed in the letters include religion and moral reform, daughter Elizabeth's search for a husband, local life in Stanstead village, and vignettes of social life among MLAs in Kingston. The letters support recent findings that gender identities were not as strictly defined during this era as earlier historians have suggested. Breaking the public/private divide, The Child Letters shows how family and politics are linked and reveals the family support which underpinned the rise to political prominence of men such as Child.
Author : Eldon Hay
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773541004
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Covenanters in Canada written by Eldon Hay and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensitive and nuanced narrative of a dissenting religious minority in a pluralistic society.
Author : Jessica van Horssen
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774828447
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book A Town Called Asbestos written by Jessica van Horssen and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos to produce a multitude of fire-retardant products. As use of the mineral became more widespread, medical professionals discovered it had harmful effects on human health. Mining and manufacturing companies downplayed the risks to workers and the general public, but eventually, as the devastating nature of asbestos-related deaths became common knowledge, the industry suffered terminal decline. A Town Called Asbestos looks at how the people of Asbestos, Quebec, worked and lived alongside the largest chrysotile asbestos mine in the world. Dependent on this deadly industry for their community’s survival, they developed a unique, place-based understanding of their local environment; the risks they faced living next to the giant opencast mine; and their place within the global resource trade. This book unearths the local-global tensions that defined Asbestos’s proud history and reveals the challenges similar resource communities have faced – and continue to face today.
