A Few Acres Of Snow

Author : Thomas Thorner,Thor Frohn-Nielsen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442600294

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A Few Acres of Snow by Thomas Thorner,Thor Frohn-Nielsen Pdf

A Few Acres of Snow allows readers to experience early Canadian history in the words of those who first explored, created, and documented the nation. Providing coast-to-coast representation and featuring a diverse range of social groups, the editors offer a refreshing look at the major events leading up to and including Confederation. Throughout, they rely on a careful selection of personal, formal, and legal documents to tell the story, including early travel narratives, literary writings by Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Trail, government reports on slavery in Canada, official letters on Irish immigration, and newspaper articles and speeches on the creation of the Dominion of Canada in 1867. In this trim new edition, each document is introduced with biographical information about the creator. Brand new chapters discuss the Loyalists in Nova Scotia, the War of 1812, and the Beothuk. Also new is a guide to critically reading and engaging with historical documents.

Author : Robert Leckie
Publisher : Booksales
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0785821007

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A Few Acres of Snow by Robert Leckie Pdf

This expansive book covers seven tumultuous decades of pre-Revolutionary American history.

Author : William Klempa
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0886292395

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The Burning Bush and a Few Acres of Snow by William Klempa Pdf

The twelve essays collected here explore the formative influence Presbyterianism has had on Canadian religious heritage and culture, including education, church/state relations, literature and music.

Author : Paul Simpson-Housley,Glen Norcliffe
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781554880508

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A Few Acres of Snow by Paul Simpson-Housley,Glen Norcliffe Pdf

In 1759, Voltaire in Candide referred to Canada as "quelques arpents de neige." For several centuries, the image prevailed and was the one most frequently used by poets, writers, and illustrators. Canada was perceived and portrayed as a cold, hard, and unforgiving land. this was not a land for the fainthearted. Canada has yieled its wealth only reluctantly, while periodically threatening life itself with its displays of fury. Discovering its beauty and hidden resources requires patience and perseverance. A Few Acres of Snow is a colletion of twenty-two essays that explore, from the geographer's perspective, how poets, artists, and writers have addressed the physical essence of Canada, both landscape and cityscape. "Sense of place" is clearly critical in the works examined in this volume. Included among the book's many subjects are Hugh MacLennan, Gabrielle Roy, Lucius O'Brien, the art of the Inuit, Lawren Harris, Malcolm Lowry, C.W. Jefferys, L.M. Montgomery, Elizabeth Bishop, Marmaduke Matthews, Antonine Mailet, and the poetry of Japanese Canadians.

Author : Robert Leckie
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780471390206

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"A Few Acres of Snow" by Robert Leckie Pdf

"Leckie is a gifted writer with the ability to explain complicatedmilitary matters in layperson's terms, while sustaining the dramainvolved in a life-and-death struggle. His portraits of the keyplayers in that struggle . . . are seamlessly interwoven with hisexciting narrative." -Booklist"As always, [Leckie] describes themaneuvers, battles, and results in telling detail with a cinematicstyle, and his portraits . . . are first-rate."-The Dallas MorningNews"Leckie's accounts of battles, important individuals, and therole of Native Americans bring to life the distant drama of theFrench and Indian Wars."-The Daily Reflector With his celebrated sense of drama and eye for colorful detail,acclaimed military historian Robert Leckie charts the long, savageconflict between England and France in their quest for supremacy inpre-Revolutionary America. Packed with sharply etched profiles ofall the major players-including George Washington, Samuel deChamplain, William Pitt, Edward Braddock, Count Frontenac, JamesWolfe, Thomas Gage, and the nobly vanquished Marquis deMontcalm-this panoramic history chronicles the four great colonialwars: the War of the Grand Alliance (King William's War), the Warof the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War), the War of theAustrian Succession (King George's War), and the decisive Frenchand Indian War (the Seven Years' War). Leckie not only providesperspective on exactly how the New World came to be such a fiercelycontested prize in Western Civilization, but also shows us exactlywhy we speak English today instead of French-and reminds us howeasily things might have gone the other way.

Author : National Museums of Canada,David-Thiery Ruddel
Publisher : National Museums of Canada, 19
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:231869615

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A Few Acres of Snow : Environment and Man by National Museums of Canada,David-Thiery Ruddel Pdf

Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429934350

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Whiter Than Snow by Sandra Dallas Pdf

From The New York Times bestselling author of Prayers for Sale comes the moving and powerful story of a small town after a devastating avalanche, and the life changing effects it has on the people who live there Whiter Than Snow opens in 1920, on a spring afternoon in Swandyke, a small town near Colorado's Tenmile Range. Just moments after four o'clock, a large split of snow separates from Jubilee Mountain high above the tiny hamlet and hurtles down the rocky slope, enveloping everything in its path including nine young children who are walking home from school. But only four children survive. Whiter Than Snow takes you into the lives of each of these families: There's Lucy and Dolly Patch—two sisters, long estranged by a shocking betrayal. Joe Cobb, Swandyke's only black resident, whose love for his daughter Jane forces him to flee Alabama. There's Grace Foote, who hides secrets and scandal that belies her genteel façade. And Minder Evans, a civil war veteran who considers his cowardice his greatest sin. Finally, there's Essie Snowball, born Esther Schnable to conservative Jewish parents, but who now works as a prostitute and hides her child's parentage from all the world. Ultimately, each story serves as an allegory to the greater theme of the novel by echoing that fate, chance, and perhaps even divine providence, are all woven into the fabric of everyday life. And it's through each character's defining moment in his or her past that the reader understands how each child has become its parent's purpose for living. In the end, it's a novel of forgiveness, redemption, survival, faith and family.

Author : Paul Simpson-Housley,G. B. Norcliffe
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781550021578

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A Few Acres of Snow by Paul Simpson-Housley,G. B. Norcliffe Pdf

These 22 essays explore how poets, artists, and writers have addressed the physical essence of Canada.

Author : Gérard Bouchard
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773574526

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The Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New World by Gérard Bouchard Pdf

The Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New World explores the question of how a culture - a collective consciousness - is born. Gérard Bouchard compares the histories of New World collectivities, which were driven by a dream of freedom and sovereignty, and finds both major differences and striking commonalities in their formation and evolution. He also considers the myths and discursive strategies devised by elites in their efforts to unite and mobilize diversified populations.

Author : Thomas Thorner
Publisher : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021143255

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"A Few Acres of Snow" by Thomas Thorner Pdf

The second edition of A Country Nourished on Self-Doubt demonstrates thatthe raw materials ofCanada's pastprovide extraordinarily engaging and informative insights into the richness of Canadian history."

Author : Thomas Thorner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:1011734739

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A Few Acres of Snow by Thomas Thorner Pdf

Author : Bryan O'Hara
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-21
Category : GARDENING
ISBN : 9781603588539

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No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture by Bryan O'Hara Pdf

"No-till farming is the new best practice for preventing soil erosion, building soil biology, and providing growing conditions for vibrant, healthy crops. But for organic vegetable farmers and gardeners-and any farmer who wants to avoid herbicide use-the seemingly insurmountable dilemma with no-till has been how to control weeds without cultivating. In this thorough, practical guide, expert organic farmer Bryan O'Hara provide the answers. O'Hara systemically describes the growing methods he developed and perfected during a multi-year transition of his Connecticut certified organic vegetable farm to a no-till system. O'Hara asserts that this flexible, nature-friendly agricultural methodology is critical to vegetable farming success both economically as well as to maintain the health of the soil and the farm ecosystem. His methodology has proven itself over years of cropping on his home farm, Tobacco Road Farm, as well as other farms in his region, often with stunning results in yields, quality, and profitability. In No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture, O'Hara delves into the techniques he has experimented with and perfected in his 25 years of farming, including making and using compost, culturing and applying indigenous microorganisms to support soil biology, reduced tillage systems, no-till bed preparation techniques, seeding and transplanting methods, irrigation, use of fertilizers (including foliar feeds), pest and disease management, weed control, season extension, and harvest and storage techniques. O'Hara also explores the spiritual understanding of the nuances of the soil and a farm ecosystem and how that influences practical production decisions such as when to plant, water, and fertilize a crop. O'Hara goal is to pass on his knowledge to those who feel the impulse to make their livelihood in harmony with nature, requiring a relatively small land base of a few acres or less and little capital investment in mechanization. Home gardener and large-scale farmers will also find value in his methods. This manual will provides farmers with an advanced agricultural methodology not available in any other single book on organic vegetable production, a methodology that will allow farmers to continue to adapt to meet future challenges"--

Author : Craig Schreiner
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870206184

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One Small Farm by Craig Schreiner Pdf

“People’s lives are written on the fields of old farms. The rows of the fields are like lines on a page, blank and white in winter, filled in with each year’s story of happiness, disappointment, drought, rain, sun, scarcity, plenty. The chapters accumulate, and people enter and leave the narrative. Only the farm goes on.”—From the Introduction In One Small Farm, Craig Schreiner’s evocative color photographs capture one family as they maintain the rhythms and routines of small farm life near Pine Bluff, Wisconsin. “Milk in the morning and milk at night. Feed the cows and calves. Plant crops. Grind feed. Chop and bale hay. Cut wood. Clean the barn. Spread manure on the fields. Plow snow and split wood in winter. In spring, pick rocks from the fields. Cultivate corn. Pick corn. Harvest oats and barley. Help calves be born. Milk in the morning and milk at night.” There’s much more to life on the farm than just chores, of course, and Schreiner captures the rhythms and richness of everyday life on the farm in all seasons, evoking both the challenges and the joys and providing viewers a window into a world that is quickly fading. In documenting the Lamberty family’s daily work and life, these thoughtful photos explore larger questions concerning the future of small farm agriculture, Wisconsin cultural traditions, and the rural way of life.

Author : Stephen J. Hornsby
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773587342

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Surveyors of Empire by Stephen J. Hornsby Pdf

Using research from both sides of the Atlantic, Stephen Hornsby examines the development of British military cartography in North America during and after the Seven Years War, as well as advancements in military and scientific equipment used in surveying. At the same time, he follows the land speculation of two leading surveyors, Samuel Holland and J.F.W. Des Barres, and the publication history of The Atlantic Neptune. Richly illustrated with images from The Atlantic Neptune and earlier maps, Surveyors of Empire is an insightful account of the relationship between science and imperialism, and the British shaping of the Atlantic world.

Author : Pam Dawling
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781550925128

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Sustainable Market Farming by Pam Dawling Pdf

Growing for 100 - the complete year-round guide for the small-scale market grower. Across North America, an agricultural renaissance is unfolding. A growing number of market gardeners are emerging to feed our appetite for organic, regional produce. But most of the available resources on food production are aimed at the backyard or hobby gardener who wants to supplement their family's diet with a few homegrown fruits and vegetables. Targeted at serious growers in every climate zone, Sustainable Market Farming is a comprehensive manual for small-scale farmers raising organic crops sustainably on a few acres. Informed by the author's extensive experience growing a wide variety of fresh, organic vegetables and fruit to feed the approximately one hundred members of Twin Oaks Community in central Virginia, this practical guide provides: Detailed profiles of a full range of crops, addressing sowing, cultivation, rotation, succession, common pests and diseases, and harvest and storage Information about new, efficient techniques, season extension, and disease resistant varieties Farm-specific business skills to help ensure a successful, profitable enterprise Whether you are a beginning market grower or an established enterprise seeking to improve your skills, Sustainable Market Farming is an invaluable resource and a timely book for the maturing local agriculture movement.