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Book Synopsis My Friend W.A.C. Bennett by : Jim Ryan
Download or read book My Friend W.A.C. Bennett written by Jim Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis W.A.C. Bennett by : Rosemary Neering
Download or read book W.A.C. Bennett written by Rosemary Neering and published by Don Mills, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside. This book was released on 1981 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Conversations with W. A. C. Bennett by : Roger Keene
Download or read book Conversations with W. A. C. Bennett written by Roger Keene and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wonderful World of W. A. C. Bennett by : Ronald B. Worley
Download or read book The Wonderful World of W. A. C. Bennett written by Ronald B. Worley and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis W.A.C. Bennett and the Rise of British Columbia by : David Joseph Mitchell
Download or read book W.A.C. Bennett and the Rise of British Columbia written by David Joseph Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bill Bennett written by Bob Plecas and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Bennett is an eyewitness account of B.C. premier W.R. (Bill) Bennett's eleven years in power, from 1975 to 1986. Never seen as a populist or a great communicator, Bennett nevertheless won three elections in a row, a feat surpassed only by his father, W.A.C. Bennett, who won six. The younger Bennett also twice captured the highest percentage of the popular vote of any premier since the Second World War. Among his very significant and undervalued achievements, Bennett dramatically changed the way British Columbia is governed and the way in which it came to be perceived on the world stage; chaired Canada's provincial premiers during the repatriation of the constitution; built the Coquihalla highway; created the Whistler ski resort; and brought the Port of Prince Rupert, Sky Train and BC Place Stadium to the province.
Book Synopsis Dream Catcher and Reconciliation by : Wallace George du Temple
Download or read book Dream Catcher and Reconciliation written by Wallace George du Temple and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wally du Temple, who was a social worker during the Sixties Scoop of aboriginal children, presents a convincing case for the need of reconciliation with First Nations and also with Mother Earth.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Resentment by : Philip Resnick
Download or read book The Politics of Resentment written by Philip Resnick and published by IRPP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the role that British Columbia has played in the evolving Canadian unity debate. Philip Resnick explores what makes British Columbia stand apart as a region of Canada and looks at the views of politicians, opinion-makers and ordinary citizens on various issues.
Book Synopsis Direct Intervention by : Eldon Black
Download or read book Direct Intervention written by Eldon Black and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Direct Intervention recounts the political and diplomatic relationship between Canada and France at a critical juncture in Canada's history. As a Minister in the Canadian Embassy in Paris, Eldon Black witnessed a range of fateful events - from visits (successful and unsuccessful) of ministers and prime ministers between Ottawa, Quebec City and Paris, to meetings at the Elysée palace, and exchanges of a myriad of telegrams, notes and other diplomatic correspondence. This well-researched account of French interference in Canadian constitutional and federal-provincial affairs includes criticism of Quebec's involvement, and of how Embassy staff in Paris and the Canadian government in Ottawa strove to control and normalize relations among the contending parties. Central to the national unity debate of the day, the ensuing diplomatic wrangles and political conflicts have a curiously contemporary ring, even reverberating into Canada's future.
Download or read book Gordon Shrum written by Gordon Shrum and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This autobiography traces Shrum's beginnings on a southern Ontario farm, through his school and university years in Toronto, his distinguished academic career at UBC and his post-retirement careers as chancellor of Simon Fraser University, head of B.C. Hydro, Robson Square, and the Vancouver Museum.
Book Synopsis Letters to a Québécois Friend by : Philip Resnick
Download or read book Letters to a Québécois Friend written by Philip Resnick and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resnick, a leading Canadian nationalist, argues that English-Canadian attitudes toward Quebec have changed fundamentally since the November 1988 election. Quebec has become too selfish, he says, and English Canada feels betrayed by Quebec's refusal either to recognize or take seriously the desires of the rest of the country. He suggests that Quebec reconsider the social values it once supported, values which are in opposition to the market-oriented Canada-US Free Trade Agreement. Resnick argues that this agreement will only weaken the Canadian state, as would the Meech Lake Accord. Canada's move toward the right, politically and economically, is, for Resnick, exacerbated by Quebec's stubborn self-interest. He argues that the consequences of moving to the right, such as we have seen in the US and Great Britain, should concern both English Canada and Quebec; only by working together can Canada as a whole begin "to formulate more humane and compelling alternatives for the coming decade." Daniel Latouche makes it quite clear in his reply that the Québécois are tired of having to justify themselves, their distinctiveness, and their support of Free Trade. While English-Canadians may think they have been betrayed by Quebec, he says, it is only because they have not looked at the issues from a Québécois perspective. When vying for its share of political power, says Latouche, Quebec is only playing by the rules it has learnt from English Canada. And Free Trade, he points out, was an initiative originating in Ontario and the West. Latouche asserts that Quebec's response to the Supreme Court ruling on Bill 101 was a legitimate use of the Canadian constitution and asks whether it is because it was Quebec that made use of this clause that it was condemned. The Supreme Court ruling, Latouche argues, protected commercial interests "thus accelerating the judicial integration of Canada within the American legal culture." All Quebec did was make use of an escape clause to protect itself. Resnick suggests that since the Quiet Revolution there has been an increased responsiveness on the part of English Canadians to Quebec and its demands. But Latouche has no time for this argument: "Do you mean that every time we manage to have a share of what all Canadians are entitled to, these are mere bones you are throwing to us. My friend, we are not dogs eating at the table because of your generosity. We are citizens and tax-payers." Letters to a Québécois Friend will not put an end to the debates. By bringing into the open the feelings of two leading nationalists - whose "nations" are not the same - this dialogue will ensure that the debates continue with increased fervour.
Book Synopsis A Little Rebellion by : Bridget Moran
Download or read book A Little Rebellion written by Bridget Moran and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1964, social worker Bridget Moran attracted widespread attention and the wrath of the BC government with her open letter to Premier W.A.C. Bennett, charging the welfare department with gross neglect in addressing the problems of the province's needy. This very public dispute formed a small part of Bridget Moran's "little rebellion" against a system she felt did not, and does not, respond to the needs of those it was designed to help. A Little Rebellion is a moving portrait of a fiery and outspoken woman whose ongoing activism is inspired by a deeply-felt desire for social and political justice. Now in its 4th printing.
Book Synopsis Unbuilt Environments by : Jonathan Peyton
Download or read book Unbuilt Environments written by Jonathan Peyton and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the latter half of the twentieth century, legions of industrial pioneers came to northwestern British Columbia with grand plans for mines, dams, and energy-development schemes. Yet many of their projects failed to materialize or were abandoned midstream. Unbuilt Environments reveals that these lapsed resource projects had lasting effects on the natural and human environment. Drawing on a range of case studies to analyze the social and environmental impacts of unfinished projects, Jonathan Peyton considers development failure a productive concept for northwestern Canada. He looks at a closed asbestos mine, an abandoned rail grade, an imagined series of hydroelectric installations, a failed LNG export facility, and a transmission line – and finds that these unrealized developments continue to shape contemporary resource conflicts.
Download or read book Lord of Point Grey written by P.B. Waite and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few university presidents could be considered 'to the manner born.' Larry MacKenzie was the exception. He discovered this talent when president of the University of New Brunswick from 1940 to 1944. He became president of the University of British Columbia in 1944 and served for eighteen years. Although UBC's present eminence owes much to many people, as biographer P.B. Waite points out, 'it is basically Larry MacKenzie's creation.'
Download or read book Pierre written by Nancy Southam and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 national bestseller When Pierre Elliott Trudeau died in 2000, the outpouring of emotion was extraordinary. Thousands of people across Canada — and all over the world — mourned the loss of one of our greatest prime ministers, a man who touched the hearts and challenged the minds of a nation. In this book, Trudeau’s close friend Nancy Southam has gathered more than 140 reminiscences and anecdotal narratives from journalists, former world leaders, politicians who battled and debated him, his sons’ friends, RCMP bodyguards, girlfriends, canoeing buddies, and household staff. Among the contributors are luminaries as diverse as Conrad Black, Jean Chrétien, Leonard Cohen, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ivan Head, Jacques Hébert, Karen Kain, Margot Kidder, Harrison McCain, Toni Onley, Gordon Pinsent, Christopher Plummer, Roy Romanow, Ed Schreyer, and Barbra Streisand. With the blessing of his sons, Justin and Sacha, Southam has put together a remarkably transparent account of a deeply private person that is funny, honest, affectionate, and illuminating.
Download or read book In the Black written by B. Denham Jolly and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable memoir about achieving prosperity in the face of relentless prejudice In the Black traces B. Denham Jolly’s personal and professional struggle for a place in a country where Black Canadians have faced systematic discrimination. He arrived from Jamaica to attend university in the mid-1950s and worked as a high school teacher before going into the nursing and retirement-home business. Though he was ultimately successful in his business ventures, Jolly faced both overt and covert discrimination, which led him into social activism. The need for a stronger voice for the Black community fuelled Jolly’s 12-year battle to get a licence for a Black-owned radio station in Toronto. At its launch in 2001, Flow 93.5 became the model for urban music stations across the country, helping to launch the careers of artists like Drake. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Jolly chronicles not only his own journey; he tells the story of a generation of activists who worked to reshape the country into a more open and just society. While celebrating these successes, In the Black also measures the distance Canada still has to travel before we reach our stated ideals of equality.
Book Synopsis North Country Lifestyle by : Jewel L Reierson
Download or read book North Country Lifestyle written by Jewel L Reierson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, Darlene M. Reierson, a self-proclaimed “city girl,” and her husband, Brien, embarked on what so many people dream of doing but rarely attempt: a completely off-the-grid lifestyle, eking a living in the unforgiving wilderness of northern British Columbia, Canada. They spent the next several decades moving back and forth between a series of cabins they built with their own hands while logging, prospecting, trapping, hunting, fishing, gathering, and growing their own food. Throughout their years in the wilderness, Darlene was a relentless journaler, recording the highs and lows of modern homesteading in the mountains as she and Brien raised their two daughters. This book contains the second volume of Darlene’s journals, picking up at the point where their daughters have left home, and she and Brien are making a go of it themselves. Living on the edge as they did, however, tragedy was forever lurking right around the corner, and it struck hard during this phase of their lives. Despite their struggles against nature and the darkness of loss and grief, one thing that shines through is the Reiersons’ faith in their God. This alone is that gives Darlene the strength to continue moving forward in the face of tragedy. Also included in this book are several family trees and other genealogical information plus dozens of photos highlighting the Reiersons adventures and depicting their ancestors.