Clifford Sifton Volume 2

Author : D.J. Hall
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780774845007

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Clifford Sifton, Volume 2 by D.J. Hall Pdf

A Lonely Eminence is the second of two volumes tracing the public life and times of Clifford Sifton, one of Canada's most controversial politicians. Volume II examines Sifton's life and work in the twentieth century, especially his political activities. Sifton's involvement in the early administration of the Yukon Territory is analyzed, as is his concern for a rational, all-Canadian transportation policy and his role in railway development in the west. Volume II of Clifford Sifton, like Volume I, is rich in historical detail and is the result of extensive research into original historical sources. The vitality and significance of Sifton's public and political career emerge from this political biography, which will be of interest to Canadian historians and political scientists, as well as to anyone interested in the growth and development of Canada.

Author : D.J. Hall
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780774845137

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Clifford Sifton, Volume 1 by D.J. Hall Pdf

Clifford Sifton was at the centre of political controversies throughout his career. A study of his life and times focuses inevitably on major issues in Canadian history. Clifford Sifton: The Young Napoleon - the first of a two-volume biography - examines Sifton's early career including his years in the Manitoba legislature up to the mid-point of his service in the federal cabinet. After Sifton's first election in the 1880's, his political rise was dramatic. As Manitoba's attorney general from 1891 to 1896, he fought to establish Manitoba's national schools system - one of the major issues of his career. Like many westerners, Sifton believed the social structure of central Canada should not be imposed on the West and recommended rejection of the bilingual "cultural compact" of Confederation. Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier made Sifton Minister of the Interior in 1896, and his voice became one of the strongest in the cabinet. In addition to his aggressive efforts to settle the Prairies, he helped to shape tariff policy, administered the Yukon during the problematic gold rush days, and became involved in policies related to the Indians, the International Joint Commission and Imperial connections. In the late 1890's he secretly purchased the influential Manitoba Free Press and used it to circulate politically biased stories to other western Liberal newspapers. This move damaged his reputation with many of his colleagues and with members of the public. Often under attack, Sifton was a born fighter who both generated and revelled in controversy - a proclivity which earned him the nickname of "the Young Napoleon."

Author : David John Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:642065319

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Clifford Sifton by David John Hall Pdf

Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385659291

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The Promised Land by Pierre Berton Pdf

After the pioneers described in The National Dream, The Last Spike and Klondike came the settlers — a million people who filled a thousand miles of prairie in a single generation.

Author : Jean Barman,Yvonne Hébert,Don McCaskill
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780774844857

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Indian Education in Canada, Volume 1 by Jean Barman,Yvonne Hébert,Don McCaskill Pdf

The two volumes comprising Indian Education in Canada present the first full-length discussion of this important subject since the adoption in 1972 of a new federal policy moving toward Indian control of Indian education. Volume 1 analyzes the education of Indian children by whites since the arrival of the first Europeans in Canada. Volume 2 is concerned with the wide-ranging changes that have taken place since 1972.

Author : R. Douglas Francis,Chris Kitzan
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552382301

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The Prairie West as Promised Land by R. Douglas Francis,Chris Kitzan Pdf

Millions of immigrants were attracted to the Canadian West by promotional literature from the government in the late 19th century to the First World War bringing with them visions of opportunity to create a Utopian society or a chance to take control of their own destinies.

Author : Oscar Douglas Skelton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1965-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773595088

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Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier by Oscar Douglas Skelton Pdf

Author : Allan Levine
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781554882892

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Scrum Wars by Allan Levine Pdf

The image of the scrum – a beleaguered politican surrounded by jockeying reporters – is central to our perception of Ottawa. The modern scrum began with the arrival of television, but even in Sir John A. Macdonald’s day, a century earlier, reporters in the parliamentary press gallery had waited outside the prime minister’s office, pen in hand, hoping for a quote for the next edition. The scrum represents the test of wills, the contest of wits, and the battle for control that have characterized the relationship between Canadian prime ministers and journalists for more than 125 years. Scrum Wars chronicles this relationship. It is an anecdotal as well as analytical account, showing how earlier prime ministers like Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Wilfrid Laurier were able to exercise control over what was written about their administrators, while more recent leaders like John Diefenbaker, Joe Clark, John Turner, and Brian Mulroney often found themselves at the mercy of intense media scrutiny and comment.

Author : D.J. Hall
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773597693

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From Treaties to Reserves by D.J. Hall Pdf

Though some believe that the Indian treaties of the 1870s achieved a unity of purpose between the Canadian government and First Nations, in From Treaties to Reserves D.J. Hall asserts that - as a result of profound cultural differences - each side interpreted the negotiations differently, leading to conflict and an acute sense of betrayal when neither group accomplished what the other had asked. Hall explores the original intentions behind the government's policies, illustrates their attempts at cooperation, and clarifies their actions. While the government believed that the Aboriginal peoples of what is now southern and central Alberta desired rapid change, the First Nations, in contrast, believed that the government was committed to supporting the preservation of their culture while they adapted to change. Government policies intended to motivate backfired, leading instead to poverty, starvation, and cultural restriction. Many policies were also culturally insensitive, revealing misconceptions of Aboriginal people as lazy and over-dependent on government rations. Yet the first two decades of reserve life still witnessed most First Nations people participating in reserve economies, many of the first generation of reserve-born children graduated from schools with some improved ability to cope with reserve life, and there was also more positive cooperation between government and First Nations people than is commonly acknowledged. The Indian treaties of the 1870s meant very different things to government officials and First Nations. Rethinking the interaction between the two groups, From Treaties to Reserves elucidates the complexities of this relationship.

Author : David John Hall
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Indian reservations
ISBN : 9780773545946

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From Treaties to Reserves by David John Hall Pdf

How divergent understandings of treaties contributed to a heritage of distrust.

Author : Mary Janigan
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307400635

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Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark by Mary Janigan Pdf

The first big book on one of the most overlooked episodes in Canadian history, and the origin of today's greatest national debate, Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark relives the 1918 attempt by 3 premiers to wrest control of their natural resources away from Ottawa--and end their role as second-class provinces. The oil sands. Global warming. The National Energy Program. Though these seem like modern Canadian subjects, Mary Janigan reveals them to be a legacy of longstanding regional rivalry. Something of a "Third Solitude" since entering Confederation, the West has long been overshadowed by Canada's other great national debate. But as the conflict over natural resources and their effect on climate change heats up, 150 years of antipathy are coming to a head. Janigan takes readers back to a pivotal moment in 1918, when Canada's western premiers descended on Ottawa determined to control their own future--and as Margaret MacMillan did in Paris 1919, she deftly illustrates how the results reverberate to this day.

Author : Ken Cruikshank
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773563049

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Close Ties by Ken Cruikshank Pdf

The centrepiece of the Canadian government's regulatory strategy from 1904 onwards, the Board of Railway Commissioners is also central to Cruikshank's study. He describes the origins of this independent regulatory agency -- the forerunner of the National Transportation Agency -- and examines its efforts to resolve complex freight disputes. Cruikshank shows how freight rate controversies generated a variety of regulatory initiatives: governments attempted to stimulate competition in the railway industry, entered into contracts such as the Crow's Nest Pass Agreement, and fixed tariffs in legislation such as the Maritime Freight Rate Act. He demonstrates, however, that the new initiatives did not necessarily displace older ones but instead created a plurality of regulatory instruments which governed the Canadian freight rate structure. The regulatory pluralism established during this period has endured through much of the twentieth century.

Author : C. Nathan Hatton
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780887554957

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Thrashing Seasons by C. Nathan Hatton Pdf

Horseback wrestling, catch-as-catch-can, glima; long before the advent of today’s WWE, forms of wrestling were practised by virtually every cultural group. C. Nathan Hatton’s "Thrashing Seasons" tells the story of wrestling in Manitoba from its earliest documented origins in the eighteenth century, to the Great Depression. Wrestling was never merely a sport: residents of Manitoba found meaning beyond the simple act of two people struggling for physical advantage on a mat, in a ring, or on a grassy field. Frequently controversial and often divisive, wrestling was nevertheless a popular and resilient cultural practice that proved adaptable to the rapidly changing social conditions in western Canada during its early boom period. In addition to chronicling the colourful exploits of the many athletes who shaped wrestling’s early years, Hatton explores wrestling as a social phenomenon intimately bound up with debates around respectability, ethnicity, race, class, and idealized conceptions of masculinity. In doing so, "Thrashing Seasons" illuminates wrestling as a complex and socially significant cultural activity, one that has been virtually unexamined by Canadian historians looking at the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author : Lee Trepanier,Richard Avramenko
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000858884

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Canadian Conservative Political Thought by Lee Trepanier,Richard Avramenko Pdf

This book corrects an imbalance in Canadian political literature through offering a conservative account of Canadian political thought. Across 15 chronologically organized chapters, and with a mixture of established and rising scholars, the book offers an investigation of the defining features and characteristics of Canadian conservative political thought, asking what have Canadian conservative political thinkers and practitioners learned from other traditions and, in turn, what have they contributed to our understanding of conservative political thought today? Rather than its culmination, Canadian Conservative Political Thought will be the beginning of conservative political thought’s recovery and will spark debates and future research. The book will be a great resource for courses on Canadian politics, history, political philosophy and conservatism, Canadian Studies, and political theory.

Author : Shelagh Dawn Grant
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781553654186

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Polar Imperative by Shelagh Dawn Grant Pdf

Winner of the 2011 Lionel Gelber Prize Winner of the 2011 J. W. Dafoe Book Prize Nominated for the 2010 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Nominated for the 2011 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize Nominated for the Lela Common Book Prize for Canadian History Based on Shelagh Grant's groundbreaking archival research and drawing on her reputation as a leading historian in the field, "Polar Imperative" is a compelling overview of the historical claims of sovereignty over this continent's polar regions. This engaging, timely history examines the unfolding implications of major climate changes; the impact of resource exploitation on the indigenous peoples; the current high-stakes game for control over the adjacent waters of Alaska, Arctic Canada and Greenland; the events, issues and strategies that have influenced claims to authority over the lands and waters of the North American Arctic, from the arrival of the first inhabitants around 3,000 BCE to the present; and sovereignty from a comparative point of view within North America and parallel situations in the European and Asian Arctic. Polar Imperative is a definitive reference on Arctic history and will redefine North Americans' understanding of the sovereign rights and responsibilities of this northernmost region.