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Reluctant Pioneer

Author : Thomas Osborne
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459702387
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Reluctant Pioneer written by Thomas Osborne and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-05-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Osborne delivers a gripping account of 1870s Ontario pioneer life. The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale. For the next five years Thomas endured starvation, falling through the ice and freezing, accidents with axes and boats, and narrow escapes from wolves and bears. Many years later, after returning to the United States, Osborne wrote down all his adventures in a graphic memoir that has become, in the words of author and journalist Roy MacGregor, "an undiscovered Canadian classic." Reluctant Pioneer provides a brooding sense of adventure and un- sentimental realism to deliver a powerful account of pioneer life where tragedies arrive as naturally as rain and where humour resides in irony.

The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen

Author : Susin Nielsen
Publisher : Tundra Books
ISBN 13 : 1770496548
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen written by Susin Nielsen and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Henry's happy, ordinary life comes to an abrupt halt when his older brother, Jesse, picks up their father's hunting rifle and leaves the house one morning. What follows shatters Henry's family, who are forced to resume their lives in a new city, where no one knows their past. When Henry's therapist suggests he keeps a journal, at first he is resistant. But soon he confides in it at all hours of the day and night.

The Reluctant Land

Author : Cole Harris
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774858389
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Land written by Cole Harris and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2008 K.D. Srivastava Prize for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing, UBC Press The Reluctant Land describes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the fifteenth century to the Confederation years of the late 1860s and early 1870s. It shows how a deeply indigenous land was reconstituted in European terms, and, at the same time, how European ways were recalibrated in this non-European space. It also shows how an archipelago of scattered settlement emerged out of an encounter with a parsimonious territory, and suggests how deeply this encounter differed from an American relationship with abundance. The book begins with a description of land and life in northern North America in 1500, and ends by considering the relationship between the pattern of early Canada and the country as we know it today. Intended to illuminate the background of modern Canada, The Reluctant Land is an intelligent discussion of people and place that will be welcomed by scholars and lay readers alike.

Canadian Federalist Experiment

Author : Frederick Vaughan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773525335
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Federalist Experiment written by Frederick Vaughan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Vaughan looks at changes that have taken place in Canada since 1867, arguing that Pierre Trudeau's 1982 Constitution Act quietly undermined the monarchic character of the constitution by introducing republican principles of government, leaving Canada clinging to the wreckage of the old aristocratic order while attempting to provide a new order founded on republican equality."--BOOK JACKET.

Reluctant Warriors

Author : Patrick M. Dennis
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774836008
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Reluctant Warriors written by Patrick M. Dennis and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the “Hundred Days” campaign of the First World War, over 30 percent of conscripts who served in the Canadian Corps became casualties. Yet, they were generally considered slackers for not having volunteered to fight. Reluctant Warriors is the first examination of the pivotal role played by Canadian conscripts in the final campaign of the Great War on the Western Front. Challenging long-standing myths about conscripts, Patrick Dennis examines whether these men arrived at the right moment, and in sufficient numbers, to make any significant difference to the success of the Canadian Corps. He examines the conscripts themselves, their journey to war, the battles in which they fought, and their largely undocumented sacrifice and heroism. Reluctant Warriors sheds new light on the success of the Military Service Act and provides fresh evidence that conscripts were good soldiers who fought valiantly and made a crucial contribution to the war effort.

The Reluctant Author

Author : Corinne Jeffery
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525588346
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Author written by Corinne Jeffery and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a teen growing up in an impoverished dysfunctional home environment, Laurine Schaffer realizes that she must be pragmatic and pursue a sustainable professional career path. At seventeen, she enrols in a traditional three-year Registered Nurse training program, where she quickly realizes that her perceptions of life and people are dramatically different from many of her classmates. Although Laurine ultimately forges a successful vocation as a college professor, at age fifty-seven she admits she is not being true to herself, or to her lifelong aspiration to write the story of her German Lutheran ancestors who fled Russia in 1892. Following an epiphany in an abandoned family cemetery on the original ancestral homestead in western Canada, Laurine begins to write. As one family history book follows another and another and yet another, her writing becomes a catalyst for a personal healing journey. The Reluctant Author is essentially a prequel to her three previous family memoirs and links the past to the present with poignant clarity.

The Reluctant Pornographer

Author : Bruce LaBruce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Pornographer written by Bruce LaBruce and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiografie in de vorm van een reeks essays van de Canadese filmmaker Bruce LaBruce. LaBruce stelt dat homoseksualiteit een afwijking is, maar dat homoseksuelen er daarom juist prat op moeten gaan in plaats van te zoeken naar acceptatie door de hoofdmoot.

A Concise History of Canada

Author : Margaret Conrad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052176193X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Canada written by Margaret Conrad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Conrad's history of Canada begins with a challenge to its readers. What is Canada? What makes up this diverse, complex and often contested nation-state? What was its founding moment? And who are its people? Drawing on her many years of experience as a scholar, writer and teacher of Canadian history, Conrad offers astute answers to these difficult questions. Beginning in Canada's deep past with the arrival of its Aboriginal peoples, she traces its history through the conquest by Europeans, the American Revolutionary War and the industrialization of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to its prosperous present. Despite its successes and its popularity as a destination for immigrants from across the world, Canada remains a curiously reluctant player on the international stage. This intelligent, concise and lucid book explains just why that is.

Canada

Author : Ray Solitaire
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595388353
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Canada written by Ray Solitaire and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada: A Celebration from A to Z is an important survey of the people, events, and history of a country that holds peace and tolerance in the highest regard. Author Ray Solitaire, a respected chronicler of the country's much-lauded embrace of social, economic, racial, and sexual justice since the 1960s, takes an in-depth look at the many unique aspects of Canadian life in order to expose the country's exciting and true narrative to a wider audience. Liberally spiced with groundbreaking analyses and commentary, Canada: A Celebrationwill trigger comment among Canadians across the political spectrum. With uncompromising objectivity, Solitaire also explores many issues of import to Canadians and other inheritors of world culture. Sure to enlighten both the casual browser and the questing historian alike, little escapes Solitaire's daring, thought-provoking investigations into the warp and woof of modern Canadian society. From the Avro Arrow imbroglio and Whole Language to curling and maple syrup, serious students of Canadian culture and those interested in learning more about this country will find Canada: A Celebration to be an invaluable reference guide.

The Canadian Home

Author : Marc Denhez
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770700730
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Home written by Marc Denhez and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you want to live in a factory-molded cube made of plastic, asbestos, and UFFI? With an "H-bomb shelter" and the nuclear furnace underneath? Or a house designed by God to harmonize with the cosmic Muzak? The Canadian Home explains how our housing came to be including the pagan origins of "colonial" homes, why "Tudor" is not Tudor, and where so many predictions went wrong. But the book is not just about tastes and floor plans; it also celebrates technological innovation, from prehistoric Inuit windows (of stretched seal guts) to the R-2000 house and habitation in space. For the first time, records of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association have been opened to reveal the power plays of bureaucrats, developers, architects, and financiers and how they affect the quality, affordability, and choice of our housing today. Fiery debates over the sublime and the ridiculous (e.g. 1940s architectural articles on whether Toronto should be bombed) are set against the backdrop of Canadian politics and industrial history. Whether the reader’s interest is in construction, politics, or home decor, this book explains why the roof over our heads is the way it is." Pierre Berton "In his fascinating study of Canadian shelter, Marc Denhez takes us on a 20,000-year journey from the days of the cave, the tipi, and the igloo, to the H-bomb shelter and the mobile home. This is, in short, a lively as well as an erudite study of the development of housing . [It] deserves a permanent position on any library shelf." "If you live in a house or own one or build one if you have a roof over your head read this book. A housing book with punch and humour immensely enjoyable." -Charles Lynch author, journalist and former governor of Heritage Canada.

Canadian

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Canadian written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Canadian Way of War

Author : Bernd Horn
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550026127
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Way of War written by Bernd Horn and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2006 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays underlines the reality that the "Canadian way of war" is a direct reflection of circumstances and political will.

Canada: The State of the Federation, 2013

Author : Martin Papillon
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 1553394488
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Canada: The State of the Federation, 2013 written by Martin Papillon and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally associated with the federal government, Aboriginal policy has arguably become a far more complex reality. With or without formal self-government, Aboriginal communities and nations are increasingly assertive in establishing their own authority in areas as diverse as education, land management, the administration of justice, family and social services, and housing. The 2013 State of the Federation volume gathers experts and practitioners to discuss the contemporary dynamics, patterns, and challenges of Aboriginal multilevel governance in a wide range of policy areas. Recent court decisions on Aboriginal rights, notably on the duty to consult, have forced provincial and territorial governments to develop more sustained relationships with Aboriginal organizations and governments, especially in the management of lands and resources. Showing that Aboriginal governance is, more than ever, a multilevel reality, contributors address questions such as: What are the challenges in negotiating and implementing these bilateral and trilateral governance agreements? Are these governance arrangements conducive to real and sustained Aboriginal participation in the policy process? Finally, what are the implications of these various developments for Canadian federalism and for the rights and status of Aboriginal peoples in relation to the Canadian federation?

Case and His Cotemporaries, Or, The Canadian Itinerants' Memorial

Author : John Carroll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Case and His Cotemporaries, Or, The Canadian Itinerants' Memorial written by John Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art & Literature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art & Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Canadian General Election of 1984

Author : Alan Stewart Frizzell
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 9780886290368
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Canadian General Election of 1984 written by Alan Stewart Frizzell and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian General Election of 1984 provides a concise and readable guide to the recent federal election. Marrying journalism to social science, this survey reports on the campaign, examines the functions of the news media and the polls, and analyzes the results. Included are details of the vote nationally, regionally, by province and by constituency.