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The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature Edited by Eva-Marie Kröller Frontmatter More Information
Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15962-4 — The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature Edited by Eva-Marie Kröller Frontmatter More Information The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature This fully revised second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive introduction to major writers, genres, and topics. For this edition several chapters have been completely re-written to relect major developments in Canadian literature since 2004. Surveys of ic- tion, drama, and poetry are complemented by chapters on Aboriginal writ- ing, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, and the emergence of urban writing. Areas of research that have expanded since the irst edition include environmental concerns and questions of sexuality which are freshly explored across several different chapters. A substantial chapter on franco- phone writing is included. Authors such as Margaret Atwood, noted for her experiments in multiple literary genres, are given full consideration, as is the work of authors who have achieved major recognition, such as Alice Munro, recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature. Eva-Marie Kröller edited the Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature (irst edn., 2004) and, with Coral Ann Howells, the Cambridge History of Canadian Literature (2009). She has published widely on travel writing and cultural semiotics, and won a Killam Research Prize as well as the Distin- guished Editor Award of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals for her work as editor of the journal Canadian -
The Great Vancouver Fire of 1886 East
Maclean had been mayor one month. Vancouver had Roundhouse clearing on False Creek, drying for weeks been incorporated as a city for just over two months. in the hot early summer sun. It had all the ingredients The crazed clearing of the land and frantic building of a gigantic fire waiting to ignite. had begun about six months earlier. The old residents By that Sunday morning in June, there were pyramids of of Granville and Hastings Mill were a little bewildered. logs, stumps and roots piled high for controlled burning The newcomers, mostly men of British and Eastern on the edge of the old townsite. Many were already Canadian origin had been arriving in droves since alight and their smoke hung heavy in the streets. But the fall of 1885 in anticipation of fortunes to be made the smoke of clearing fires was not unusual; it had been with the coming of the railway and the expansion of smoky for weeks, so people went about their business, the new Vancouver. Once sleepy Granville, which lay even if the smoke was heavier that day. Meantime, out in a hollow set against the forest below today’s Victory of their view, a CPR crew at the Roundhouse site was Square, bustled with surveyors and speculators, and fighting a desperate battle with a clearing fire, while the construction of new buildings, the lumber green, just to its west, that tinder-dry mass of fallen trees unpainted, and fresh with sap. There were plenty of new was getting dangerously hot. In town, people attended homes with new wells and new hotels, where a tall beer church and enjoyed other Sunday pastimes, not knowing called a schooner could be had for five cents for thirsty hell’s cauldron was brewing on the other side of the hill dealmakers and woodsmen alike. -
Annual Report Year 1
The History Education Network/Histoire et Éducation en Réseau THEN/HiER SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Clusters Grant Year One Report Penney Clark, Director April, 2009 This report highlights THEN/HiER activities between April 1, 2008 and March 31, 2009. THEN/HiER is the first pan-Canadian organization devoted to promoting—and improving—history teaching and learning by bringing together the multiple and varied constituencies involved in history education: academic historians; public historians in museums, archives and historic sites; practicing teachers; history education scholars; and curriculum policy-makers. Our goal is to create more research-informed practice (from kindergarten to graduate school) and more practice-informed research through engagement involving these various communities. Project Goals Stated in SSHRC Proposal (November 2007) • Nurture a community of inquiry among academic historians; public historians in museums, archives and historic sites; practicing teachers; researchers based in faculties of education; graduate students; policy makers and other stakeholders. • Provide opportunities for engagement with, and critique of, existing research in the field of history education, with the aim of bridging research and practice. • Encourage research in classrooms involving collaboration between academics and teachers. • Transform classroom practice through pro-active connections with ministries of education, textbook publishers, other curriculum developers, and practicing teachers. We will collaboratively develop textbook publications, -
Modernism on the 'Margin' – the 'Margin' on Modernism
MTA Doktora Pályázat (dc_1044_15) Modernism on the 'Margin' – The 'Margin' on Modernism. Manifestations in Canadian Culture Válasz az opponensi véleményekre Mindenek előtt köszönettel tartozom opponenseimnek, hogy vállalták dolgozatom értékelését, bár más tudományterületre, illetve más kultúrába kellett átlépniük, mint talán szűkebben vett kutatási területük. Köszönöm Oliver Botar elismerő szavait az elméleti és történelmi háttér kidolgozására vonatkozóan. A kanadai professzor ugyanakkor nem rejti véka alá hiányérzeteit: megjegyzi, hogy a 'faji', 'etnicitásbeli', illetve a 'társadalmi nem'-et érintő szempontok egyenetlen mértékben érvényesülnek az elemzések során – ez részemről tudatos döntés volt, amint azt a Bevezetés utolsó bekezdésében (12.o.) kifejtettem, egyrészt amiatt, hogy ezek önálló szakterületek a tudományágon belül (Jewish Studies, Gender Studies, Etnic/Minority/Indigenous Studies), ily módon létezik szakirodalom ezeket részleteiben bemutatva, másrészt az érvelés koherenciája sérült volna beemelésükkel. Emily Carr-ral több tanulmány is foglalkozik az őslakos művészet és a nem-őslakos művész problematikájával összefüggésben (pl. Charles C. Hill az 1927-es National Gallery-ben rendezett kiállítást elemezve az Emily Carr. New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon című kötetben), ennek okából már nem kívántam kitérni erre az aspektusra. Lévén, hogy szakterületem az összehasonlító irodalomtudomány, nem érzem magam megfelelően kompetensnek képzőművészeti életművek értékelését illetően, mint amilyen a torontói Francis Loring és Florence -
The Watch That Ends the Night Hugh Maclennan (Macmillan, 1959, Now Available from Mcgill-Queen’S) I Knew Hugh Maclennan Well
the storytellers book club presents The Watch That Ends the Night Hugh MacLennan (Macmillan, 1959, now available from McGill-Queen’s) I knew Hugh MacLennan well. I knew him in the 1960s first as a friend and neighbour at his cottage at North Hatley, in the Eastern Townships, then as his editor (for his last novel, Voices in Time), and as his publisher. After his death in 1990, I created the anthology Hugh MacLennan’s Best, selected from all of his work, fiction and non-fiction. In 2013, when Two Solitudes was selected as a finalist for Canada Reads, I was asked by the CBC to speak on Hugh’s behalf, which was a very great honour. Although I can claim to have edited all of the other four books that I have selected for this book club, I did not edit The Watch That Ends the Night, which I think is Hugh MacLennan’s best book. It was published in 1959, when I was still in high school (although I still remember browsing through the paperback version at a Glasgow Station book stall, attracted by the exciting — if misleading — log- ging scene on the cover. Ah, those publishers!). Hugh had spent many years writing it. Elspeth Cameron’s defini- tive biography Hugh MacLennan: A Writer’s Life shows that as far back as July 1954 he had felt able to say that he had the whole novel drafted “from beginning to end,” but it took him several years to finish it. One reason was Hugh’s determination to make sure that this, a sig- nificant novel dealing with major themes, was not going to be rushed. -
DOCUMENT RESUME BD 055 010 SO 001 939 Project Canada West
DOCUMENT RESUME BD 055 010 SO 001 939 TITLE Project Canada West. Urbanization as Seen Through Canadian Writings. INSTITUTION Western Curriculum Project on Canada Studies, Edmonton (Alberta). PUB DATE Jun 71 NOTE 105p. EDRS PRICE 1F-$0.65 HC-$6.58 DESCRIPTORS Curriculum Development; *Environmental Education; Interdisciplinary Approach; Literature; *Literature Programs; Projects; Self Concept; Senior High Schools; Social Problems; *Social Studies; Urban Culture; Urban Environment; *Urbanization; *Urban Studies IDENTIFIERS Canada; *Project Canada West ABSTRACT Facing the reality that students have become very aware of their environment and the problems we face merely to survive, and being aware of the alienation of a person as urbanization increases, the project staff decided to develop a curriculum to examine the urban environment through the works of Canadian writers, poets, novelists, etc. IR this way, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grade students could confront some of the major concerns; become involved personally, though vicariously, in the lives and situations of individuals; and, learn about himself, his place, his role in urban society, and his Canadian literary heritage. The content selection and coMpilation of the writings was from a national point of view related to all parts of Canadian urbanization. The materials accumulated or referred to them during six months are included here in various categories taking into consideration the physical and human elements of each work:1) Faces of the City: descriptions, rejection of and attraction to the city; 2) Faces in the City: dwellers life styles, reactions, age, ef'-nic groups, city natives; 3) Poverty; 4) Handicapped; 5)So-. Tres; and, 6) Pollution. The material discussed is very co allow for survey studies city or local studies, or intensive area studies of urban regions; and, may be used as supplementary material or as primary content. -
Transcription of the Isabel Campbell Newspaper Index for Names B
Transcription of the Isabel Campbell Newspaper Index for Names B Introduction The following table was transcribed by volunteers at South Peace Regional Archives from Isabel Campbell’s card catalogue index of Grande Prairie newspapers. Miss Campbell diligently tracked the history of various Grande Prairie area people as they appeared in local newspapers from 1913 to 1961. Featured newspapers include the Grande Prairie Herald (1913-1938), the Northern Tribune (1932-1939), and the Grande Prairie Herald-Tribune (1939- present). The table is organized in alphabetical order by surname. Newspaper dates featuring items about that person are listed by month, day, and year. The location within the paper is given as a page number and column number on that page. Notes are occasionally given to provide more detail about the content of the article indexed. A specific place is given when one was identified in the article and by Miss Campbell. Where no place is listed, one should assume the place referred to is Grande Prairie. The pdf is word-searchable. The table does not include links to the actual articles mentioned. To read an article, consult the newspaper of that date. The website, Our Future, Our Past: The Alberta Heritage Digitization Project (AHDP), contains digitized copies of Grande Prairie newspapers from 1913-1949 (see http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/newspapr/place.asp?place=Grande+Prairie&Submit2=Look+up). A complete collection of newspapers (1913-present) is available on microfilm at the Grande Prairie Public Library in the Isabel Campbell room. South Peace Regional Archives does not maintain a complete collection of local newspapers, but may have specific issues. -
Canadian Books for Schools: a Centennial Listing. INSTITUTION Alberta Teachers Association, Edmonton., PUB DATE Feb 68 NOTE 68P
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 044 397 TE 000 626 AUTHOR Snow, Kathleen M., Ed. TITLE Canadian Books for Schools: A Centennial Listing. INSTITUTION Alberta Teachers Association, Edmonton., PUB DATE Feb 68 NOTE 68p. AVAILABLE FROM National Council of Teachers of English, 508 South Sixth Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820 (Stock No. 42457R, $1.50) EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF-$0.50 HC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS *Annotated Bibliographies, Art, *Childrens Books, Cultural Background, *Cultural Education, Drama, Elementary Education, Folklore Books, History, *Literature, Mathematics, Poetry, Sciences, Secondary Education, Social Studies; I_ENTIFIERS *Canada ABSTRACT This annotated bibliography, prepared by the English Council and School Library Council of the Alberta Teachers' Association, lists approximately 320 works -- including novels, biographies, plays, nofiction and historical books, children's books, and books of short stories--written by Canadian authors abou'. Canada. For each entry, the information provided includes grade level (pre-K to High School), subject relevance (Art, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, or English), Dewey classification number, and price. (3M) U.S. 01104491 OF MIK MVO & WEIF/11 OFFI(fOf IDU01)01 IIIIS DIXUSIIII P KR 191000(11 flICtlf AS IMMO 11011SME 111S011 01 010410111101 0141111116 It.P0I, ItS Of filfW 01 MIMS SIAM 00 NO SECISS11111 11111S1111 OffICIII U110, Of IDOCA11011 OS 10111101 01 POSKI. re\ CanadianBooks for Schools A CentennialListing of Published by The English Counciland School library Council The Alberta Teacher? Association,Edmonton, Alberta February, 1968 Como deep by John Snow INTRODUCTION in the effort to bring children and books together, the teacher of English and the librarian are partners.This partnership Is reflected In this listing of Canadian books for schools, the production of which has been a joint effort of the English Council and the School Library Council of The Alberta Teachers' Association. -
Proquest Dissertations
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY Prize Possession: Literary Awards, the GGs, and the CanLit Nation by Owen Percy A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH CALGARY, ALBERTA JANUARY 2010 ©OwenPercy 2010 Library and Archives Bibliotheque et 1*1 Canada Archives Canada Published Heritage Direction du Branch Patrimoine de I'edition 395 Wellington Street 395, rue Wellington OttawaONK1A0N4 OttawaONK1A0N4 Canada Canada Your file Votre inference ISBN: 978-0-494-64130-9 Our file Notre r6f6rence ISBN: 978-0-494-64130-9 NOTICE: AVIS: The author has granted a non L'auteur a accorde une licence non exclusive exclusive license allowing Library and permettant a la Bibliotheque et Archives Archives Canada to reproduce, Canada de reproduire, publier, archiver, publish, archive, preserve, conserve, sauvegarder, conserver, transmettre au public communicate to the public by par telecommunication ou par Nnternet, preter, telecommunication or on the Internet, distribuer et vendre des theses partout dans le loan, distribute and sell theses monde, a des fins commerciales ou autres, sur worldwide, for commercial or non support microforme, papier, electronique et/ou commercial purposes, in microform, autres formats. paper, electronic and/or any other formats. The author retains copyright L'auteur conserve la propriete du droit d'auteur ownership and moral rights in this et des droits moraux qui protege cette these. Ni thesis. Neither the thesis nor la these ni des extraits substantiels de celle-ci substantial extracts from it may be ne doivent etre imprimes ou autrement printed or otherwise reproduced reproduits sans son autorisation. -
Dam(N)Ing BC Or Remembering the Dam(N)Ed: Site C and Mega Dams in the Era of Contested Economies and Environments
Dam(n)ing BC or Remembering the dam(n)ed: Site C and mega dams in the era of contested economies and environments [email protected] deliberate #1? blocking/hiding part of the current Williston reservoir… ….hmmm… SiteCproject.com: initial overview map Site C: continuation of WAC Bennett Dam, Peace Canyon Dam, and Williston Reservoir Preamble... Consumers of electricity • current society needs / wants electricity • only 1% - 3% electricity load saved on Earth Hour Rivers and humans humans have manipulated rivers for millennia • Smith, N. A history of dams, 1971 • Goudie, A.S. The human impact on the natural environment: Past, present, and future (7th edition since the 1980s!) • Wohl, E. & Merritts, D.J. What is a natural river? Geography Compass, 2007 deliberate #2? Note site C reservoir location…hmmm… Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, Delta 1,367 sq.kms 1,773 sq.kms 93 sq.kms BC gov’t Dec.16, 2014 announcement slideshow Site C… “…is in the public interest and that the benefits provided by the project outweigh the risks of significant adverse environmental, social and heritage effects.” (BC government newsroom, October 14, 2014) cost$ to pay for electrical power Site C “…would be accompanied by significant environmental and social costs, and the costs would not be borne by those who benefit.” (p.307) “These losses will be borne by the people of the Valley… Those who benefit…will be future electricity consumers all across the province.” (p.307) (Report of the Joint Review Panel: Site C project, 2014) Site C Joint Review Panel Report, 2014 Panel’s -
Wealthy Business Families in Glasgow and Liverpool, 1870-1930 a DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY In Trade: Wealthy Business Families in Glasgow and Liverpool, 1870-1930 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS for the degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Field of History By Emma Goldsmith EVANSTON, ILLINOIS December 2017 2 Abstract This dissertation provides an account of the richest people in Glasgow and Liverpool at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. It focuses on those in shipping, trade, and shipbuilding, who had global interests and amassed large fortunes. It examines the transition away from family business as managers took over, family successions altered, office spaces changed, and new business trips took hold. At the same time, the family itself underwent a shift away from endogamy as young people, particularly women, rebelled against the old way of arranging marriages. This dissertation addresses questions about gentrification, suburbanization, and the decline of civic leadership. It challenges the notion that businessmen aspired to become aristocrats. It follows family businessmen through the First World War, which upset their notions of efficiency, businesslike behaviour, and free trade, to the painful interwar years. This group, once proud leaders of Liverpool and Glasgow, assimilated into the national upper-middle class. This dissertation is rooted in the family papers left behind by these families, and follows their experiences of these turbulent and eventful years. 3 Acknowledgements This work would not have been possible without the advising of Deborah Cohen. Her inexhaustible willingness to comment on my writing and improve my ideas has shaped every part of this dissertation, and I owe her many thanks. -
A Bibliography
Canadian Children's Literature 11 975: A Bibliography JBHIVR. SBRFLEET & MAR YRU. This bibliography attempts to record those books published in 1975- CCL's founding year-which are directly related to Canadian children's literature. It will be followed, in the future, by bibliographies for 1976 and subsequent years. Our main goal has been to make the list as complete as possible. Accordingly, we have come up with a total of host 300 items-both in French and Enghsh-for 1975. Still, though our investigations have been extensive, it is possible that errors or omissions may have arisen, especially in a few instances where we were unable for one reason or another to obtain an examination copy of s particular work. Where such oversights exist, we would be grateful if our readers would let us know so that corrections can be made in future bibliographies. Generally speaking, the book titles are indicative of the content. In order to remove one possible source of confusion, however, ihose books which are neither fiction nor poetry nor drama-i.e., those books not com- monly categorized as "creative writings-have been signified by the letters "n.f." (non-fiction) following the details of publication for the entry. Cer- tain items for professional reading-e.g., the new edition of Sheila Egoff's The Republic of Childhood-have also been included in this category. Especially in the case of non-fiction, it may sometimes be question- able whether a particular book is more appropriate to an adult or an adoles- cent reader. We have tried-while still being judicious-also to be reasonably open to the range of interests and needs, often quite sophisticated, that many children and teenagers have.