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Author : Warren Cron Miller
Publisher : St. Thomas, Ont. : Printed by the Sutherland Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Vignettes of Early St. Thomas written by Warren Cron Miller and published by St. Thomas, Ont. : Printed by the Sutherland Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer Grainger
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 155002812X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Vanished Villages of Elgin written by Jennifer Grainger and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-06-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shipwrecks, War of 1812 skirmishes, ghost sightings, and even a murder or two help make up the colourful story of Elgin Countrys heyday.
Author : Les Harding
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476655383
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Elephant Story written by Les Harding and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newspapers called him "Overshadowing Monarch Mastodon," "Behemoth of Holy Writ" and "Prodigious Mountain." He was the main event at the greatest show on earth: Jumbo, at around 6-1/2 tons and almost 12 feet tall, the biggest elephant anyone had ever seen. Jumbo's mere presence in the Barnum, Bailey and Hutchinson circus guaranteed an additional $3,000 a day in box office receipts. More of an exhibit than a performer, Jumbo was simply paraded around the three rings. But still the people came, just to marvel at the size of this monster pachyderm. This work traces Jumbo's capture in East Africa, his life in the London Zoo, the controversy over his sale for $10,000 to American showman P.T. Barnum, his journey across the Atlantic, his life as the most famous attraction in Barnum's circus, and his tragic death in a railway accident in Canada in 1885.
Author : Roberta Hamilton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802036711
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Setting the Agenda written by Roberta Hamilton and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of Jean Royce, Registrar of Queen's University for thrity-five years, provides a close look at the development and politics of a major Canadian university.
Author : Guy St-Denis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077357252X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Tecumseh's Bones written by Guy St-Denis and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005-04-12 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part detective story, part historical inquiry, this book explores the countless attempts to locate the chief's grave and raise a monument in his honour. The first substantial book on the subject based primarily on Canadian material and packed with vivid descriptions of regional life in the nineteenth century, Tecumseh's Bones examines changing attitudes towards Natives, sheds light on their relations with early Euro-Canadian settlers, and highlights the role of women in shaping the folklore traditions associated with the Shawnee chief. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, most of which has never been published, Tecumseh's Bones will fascinate history buffs, historians, and mystery lovers.
Author : Franca Iacovetta
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442612835
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Edible Histories, Cultural Politics written by Franca Iacovetta and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on findings from menus, cookbooks, government documents, advertisements, media sources, oral histories, memoirs, and archival collections, Edible Histories offers a veritable feast of original research on Canada's food history and its relationship to culture and politics. This exciting collection explores a wide variety of topics, including urban restaurant culture, ethnic cuisines, and the controversial history of margarine in Canada. It also covers a broad time-span, from early contact between European settlers and First Nations through the end of the twentieth century.
Author : Frederik L. Schodt
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611725410
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Native American in the Land of the Shogun written by Frederik L. Schodt and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Japan, after 250 years of self--imposed isolation, began the process of modernization is in part the story of Ranald MacDonald. In 1848 this half-Scot, half-Chinook adventurer from the Pacific Northwest landed on an island off Hokkaido. Although promptly arrested and imprisoned for seven months in Nagasaki, the intelligent, well-educated MacDonald fascinated the Japanese and became one of their first teachers of English and Western ways. Based on primary research in Japan and North America, this book chronicles the events leading to MacDonald’s journey and his later struggle to obtain recognition at home. Frederik L. Schodt has written extensively on Japan, including America and the Four Japans and Inside the Robot Kingdom. Fluent in spoken and written Japanese, he lives in San Francisco. In 2009 he was received the The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette for his contribution to the introduction and promotion of Japanese contemporary popular culture. "Schodt's account of MacDonald's life and his eventual journey to Japan is depicted with the accuracy of a trained academic and the excitement of a skillful novelist." --Kyoto Journal
Author : Gregory S. Kealey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521545716
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (457 download)
Download or read book Dreaming of What Might Be written by Gregory S. Kealey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Canada's working-class vision of an alternative to late nineteenth-century industrial-capitalist society.
Author : Thomas F. McIlwraith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802076588
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (765 download)
Download or read book Looking for Old Ontario written by Thomas F. McIlwraith and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slogan on Ontario's licence plates, 'Yours to Discover,' was designed to promote travel opportunities within the province. Every year, thousands of tourists drive along country roads, past farmyards and through hamlets, en route to popular vacation spots. In Looking for Old Ontario, Thomas McIlwraith shows that many destinations are closer at hand than one might imagine, and invites travellers to rediscover familiar countryside landmarks by 'reading' them as chapters in a rich historical narrative. Surveyors long ago scored Ontario's land, and generations have since inscribed it with residences, businesses, and institutions. This book, the result of thirty years of field work and archival research, is a reflection on and an interpretation of the ways in which the land and its inhabitants interrelate. Looking for Old Ontario guides readers through the vernacular landscape of the province, examining barns, fences, jails, post offices, inns, mills, canals, railways, roadsides, cemeteries, and much more. McIlwraith emphasizes ordinary features of the cultural landscape which communicate social meaning to the observant eye. The landscape tells us that Ontario has been inhabited by thrifty people; this we can conclude by looking at the economical use and reuse of construction materials. Yet the landscape also tells us that Ontario's residents have been inclined to show off: consider the province's unusually large number of elegant brick dwellings. To read a landscape is to think about such connections, and McIlwraith's contemplative style differentiates his work from manuals or handbooks. Since landscape interpretation is a highly visual subject, Looking for Old Ontario is extensively illustrated with photographs, drawings, and maps. It will be useful to general readers interested in recognizing the broader meanings of their communities' heritage, as well as to students of geography, history, and planning.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1070 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
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Author : Ian Haywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108425712
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Romanticism and Illustration written by Ian Haywood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores a vital aspect of British Romanticism, the role of illustration in Romantic-era literary texts and visual culture.
Author : Lessons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
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Download or read book Lessons from Noble Lives, and Other Stories. Selected from "Early Days.". written by Lessons and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
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Total Pages : 628 pages
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Author : Nina York
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578750361
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Our Danish Connection written by Nina York and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Danish Connection is a collection of 72 short essays that originally appeared in ST. CROIX THIS WEEK magazine (permission obtained) under that heading from 2009 through 2019. It documents the surprisingly extensive legacy of cultural, architectural, and genealogical resources from 1733 as a colony of Denmark until its sale with the islands of St. Thomas and St. John in 1917 to the United States. The tragic use of enslavement of Africans brought here to work in sugar cane fields temporarily enriched the European owners but emancipation took place in 1848. The Danish imprint on the culture has led to a surprising friendship between the islanders and Denmark with many conciliatory initiatives and large tourism and scholarly interests from Danes, creating a mood of mutual acceptance and support unusual between a former colony and its owners. The book contains a translation into Danish of all the essays by the author Nina York , a native of Denmark and resident of St. Croix since 1976. The book is supported by the St. Croix Friends of Denmark Society and the Danish West Indian Society of Denmark. We all share a love for this island as a special place to live.
Author : Chas Edwin Taylor
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260644671
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (446 download)
Download or read book An Island of the Sea written by Chas Edwin Taylor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Island of the Sea: Descriptive of the Past and Present of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies; With a Few Short Stories About Bluebeard's and Blackbeard's Castles HE favourable reception which the first edition of this work has met with at the hands of an appro ciative public has induced me to issue a second, with the addition of a few words about St. Croix, The Garden of the West Indies. This, I trust, will be acceptable to those who desire to know more about these beautiful Isles of the Sea. There is so much to be said of their attractions, bright spots, and romantic history, that whole volumes might be written about them. If I have not been able to say more of them in this, it must be attributed to the expense which such a work would entail, rather than to any design of mine to leave anything unsaid to their advantage. Some day, perhaps, I may bring out a third and improved edition. This, however, depends upon the approval of my readers. Till then, with thanks for past favours, I have the honour to subscribe myself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
