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Author : Susan Hughes
Publisher : Maple Tree
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Canada
ISBN : 1894379497
The book traces the place names of Canada in order to look the places, peoples and events that made the country what it is. Place names highlight the incredible diversity of the country, and some are plain wacky, too.
Author : Susan Hughes
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0613873963
Where in the world is Punkeydoodles? How about Burpee? Or Tom Longboat Corners?Canada is home to many places with wild, wacky and witty names -- come explore them in Let's Call It Canada. Journey from coast to coast to coast with award-winning author Susan Hughes as she discovers the best stories behind Canadian place names, and illuminates Canada's incredible diversity.Young readers will meet some of Canada's earliest settlers, its bravest heroes, its most cherished leaders, and its most dangerous renegades. They'll learn about place names that come from Native myths, local legends, Black history, and spooky ghost stories.Let's Call It Canada is a delightful look at the places, people and events that have made Canada what it is.Themes include:- Kanata: Names from the First Peoples- Not from Around Here: Named After Famous Non-Canadians- Lions and Tigers and Bears - Oh My: Birds and Animals That Lend Their Names- A Little Bit of Home: Names from the Early Settlers- It Happened Here: Places Named for Significant Events- Boo!: Ghostly Names with Spooky Beginnings- It's Called What?: Misnamings and Just Plain Wacky NamesDelightfully different yet intrinsically connected, each unique book in the Wow Canada! series celebrates a part of Canada's story in its own way. Together they weave a rich tale, as diverse and exciting as the country itself.
Author : Ruth Solski
Publisher : S&S Learning Materials
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Learn about Canada's provinces, cities, tourist and historical attractions! A 12-page reproducible student booklet will teach students about the provinces and territories, their names, locations, flowers, and flags. Feartures skills, concepts and content in reading, writing, phonics, mapping, research and more. 65+ activities, teacher information, suggestions and answer key. 126 pages.
Author : Beryl W. Holtam
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789462090071
With a new century, there has emerged a new age in moral considerations. The Arab Spring, Facebook, and the Occupy Movement all point to an awareness of, and concern for, the moral character of the individual and the collective. The phrase, “it’s the right thing to do”, echoing throughout news media and one’s daily exchanges, typically indicates a moral positioning. Presented in this book is the argument that now is the time to call it what it is, a matter of conscience, and to embrace the transformative power of a new vocabulary for moral and character education. In a more expansive approach than typically seen, this book examines the nature and function of conscience. Building upon the foundational work of Thomas Green (1999), the vocabulary of reflexive judgment, reflexive emotions, normation, and voices of conscience, are explored as they apply to moral formation, with examples and applications provided. Specific attention is given to the interrelationship of the collective conscience with democracy. Educating for conscience and the notion of the sacred are also examined. Written from an educator’s perspective, this book offers a framework for moral education to both the secular and religious domains.
Author : Jesse Thistle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982101237
*#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER *Winner, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Nonfiction *Winner, Indigenous Voices Awards *Winner, High Plains Book Awards *Finalist, CBC Canada Reads *A Globe and Mail Book of the Year *An Indigo Book of the Year *A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of the Year In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a high school dropout and now a rising Indigenous scholar, chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who he is. If I can just make it to the next minute...then I might have a chance to live; I might have a chance to be something more than just a struggling crackhead. From the Ashes is a remarkable memoir about hope and resilience, and a revelatory look into the life of a Métis-Cree man who refused to give up. Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Jesse Thistle briefly found himself in the foster-care system with his two brothers, cut off from all they had known. Eventually the children landed in the home of their paternal grandparents, whose tough-love attitudes quickly resulted in conflicts. Throughout it all, the ghost of Jesse’s drug-addicted father haunted the halls of the house and the memories of every family member. Struggling with all that had happened, Jesse succumbed to a self-destructive cycle of drug and alcohol addiction and petty crime, spending more than a decade on and off the streets, often homeless. Finally, he realized he would die unless he turned his life around. In this heartwarming and heart-wrenching memoir, Jesse Thistle writes honestly and fearlessly about his painful past, the abuse he endured, and how he uncovered the truth about his parents. Through sheer perseverance and education—and newfound love—he found his way back into the circle of his Indigenous culture and family. An eloquent exploration of the impact of prejudice and racism, From the Ashes is, in the end, about how love and support can help us find happiness despite the odds.
Author : Alan Rayburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X002550208
Revised to incorporate reader information and response, 61 articles of a few pages each explore such aspects of toponymy as the name Canada itself, pronouncing names like a local, heavenly places, war commemorations, native names, the borderless land of Acadia, Spanish and Portuguese names, and the trail of names left by the Mackenzie expeditions. The column was published in Canadian Geographic from December 1983/January 1984 to November/December 1993. No bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Jack Desmarais
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781525597800
Ace McCool is an over-the-top spoof of the airline industry. It relates the hilarious misadventures of a fly-by-night, corner-cutting airline called Down East International, based in Moncton, New Brunswick. The stories start with Ace McCool, a World War II pilot, and the rag-tag characters he picks up along the way as his airline progresses from DC-3s to a Boeing 727 over the years from just after the war to 1985. Dim-witted pilot Pete Braddock "who could have flown the crate the airplane came in." The Smarts, an insufferable Englishman but "a polemaster of the first water." Churchy Laflamme, "de bes' co-pilot of dem all." Cowboy McCloskey, a big Albertan dinosaur with oil wells on his ranch. He commutes to Moncton in a privately-owned CF-104. Red Starr, a hippie pilot and, on the side, lead of a rock group called Red Starr and the Commies. Those pilots and a few more, as well as stewardesses (as they were called) Mile-High Millie, Crazy Iris and Stew Jane, and a few other characters stumble their way from one impossible situation to another. These are the same stories that brought laughter to readers of Canadian Aviation magazine. They are assembled together in book form. Come fly and laugh with Ace McCool of Down East International.
Author : Alex Salaiz
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781525594748
FBI Special Agent Chad Winters is killed as he crossed the street by a driver in a stolen two-and-a-half-ton truck. Was it an al-Qaeda or ISIS agent that finally killed Chad or was it really an accident as reported by the D.C. police? His longtime FBI partner Reynolds and new FBI hire Padilla were cleaning out Chad’s apartment when they found documents of large investments in pharmaceutical companies by Washington D.C.'s prominent people and also documents of a viral attack. Was this information mailed to Chad that led to his murder? Then a mysterious call about a murder of an investment clerk in New York City shortly after the investment documents were mailed to Chad proved that the information was related to his murder. Identifying the investment clerk’s and Chad’s killers as the same individuals led Reynolds and FBI rookie Padilla to a beautiful Russian Research Assistant in a major US university. She had been placed there by a Russian oligarch to develop and release a virus in the United States. The Research Assistant turned witness but was quickly kidnapped by Russian Agents from an FBI safehouse in D.C. She was rescued by Reynolds and Padilla only to be kidnapped again by the same Russian agents while Reynolds and Padilla were out of country now capturing Chad’s killers in Canada. Will they rescue her a second time? Read the conclusion of “We Won’t Let It Happen” to find out the end of this exciting story.
Author : Kitty Shea
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756533031
Describes the school life, family life, the traditions and holidays, entertainment and recreation, and the daily routines of Canadians and Canadian teenagers living in Canada.
Author : Vera Trembach
Publisher : Rainbow Horizons Publishing
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781553197379
Loaded with practical activities to help students learn about communities, Canadian Cities combines geography, math, tourism, and language arts into a comprehensive social studies program. Students will learn the capital cities of Canada and how to locate them on a map. They will locate cities within the province of Saskatchewan on a map and discover elements unique to their city. Independent learning activities, fun tourism reports, task cards, a big book and Canada's capital city game are all included. Students will also discover elements unique to a city, participate in group work, and read a dramatic role. This Social Studies lesson provides a teacher and student section with reader's theatre, game, big book pattern, task cards, word search, and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Author : Carly Adams
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781492599203
Serving as a foundation for critical discussion about the importance of the past, Sport and Recreation in Canadian History covers the historical events, people, and moments that shape Canadian sport in the present and future. While this text focuses on sport and recreation practices on these lands now claimed by Canada, it is set within a larger historical context of interconnecting social and cultural practices to speak to the sustained tensions, complexities, and contradictions prevalent in Canadian society. The editor, Dr. Carly Adams, and her 17 contributing experts from across Canada bring the latest research in all areas of Canadian sport history to life and present a thorough look at the nation’s past events. The text challenges the dominant narratives and encourages students to think critically about Canadian sport history. It examines how gender, ethnicity, race, religion, ability, class, and other systems of oppression and privilege have shaped sport and recreation practices, with Canadian sporting culture reproducing many of the same oppressive systems that exist on the larger scale. Sport and Recreation in Canadian History separates itself from its competitors by providing an abundance of pedagogical aids. Sidebars highlighting prominent people provide glimpses of figures who made a significant impact on Canadian sport history. Transformative Moment sidebars focus on significant events as they relate to specific themes, such as gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, or ability. A comprehensive timeline showcases where important events fell in relation to one another, while the text acknowledges the problem of presenting history in a linear way and provides a more nuanced discussion of time. Descriptions of primary source documents—such as newspaper articles, photographs, and historical documents—are accompanied by explanations of how sport historians work with these documents. Sport and Recreation in Canadian History asks readers to think differently about the history of Canadian sport, and it examines how past people, moments, and events continue to shape 21st-century sport.
Author : Ruby Slipperjack
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443133197
Acclaimed author Ruby Slipperjack delivers a haunting novel about a 12-year-old girl’s experience at a residential school in 1966. Violet Pesheens is struggling to adjust to her new life at residential school. She misses her Grandma; she has run-ins with Cree girls; at her “white” school, everyone just stares; and everything she brought has been taken from her, including her name—she is now just a number. But worst of all, she has a fear. A fear of forgetting the things she treasures most: her Anishnabe language; the names of those she knew before; and her traditional customs. A fear of forgetting who she was. Her notebook is the one place she can record all of her worries, and heartbreaks, and memories. And maybe, just maybe there will be hope at the end of the tunnel. Drawing from her own experiences at residential school, Ruby Slipperjack creates a brave, yet heartbreaking heroine in Violet, and lets young readers glimpse into an all-too important chapter in our nation’s history.
Author : Andrew Burtch,Tim Cook
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774870535
Korea was the first hot war of the Cold War. It was also Canada’s most significant military engagement of the twentieth century following the two world wars. Canada and the Korean War gathers leading scholars to explore the key themes and battles of a seminal yet understudied conflict. Canada had little stake and less interest in Korea before 1950, but the risk the conflict posed to the fragile postwar order was deemed too great for the country to stand on the sidelines. Alongside their allies, more than 30,000 Canadian service personnel fought a determined and skilled enemy. The armistice that ended the war left Korea devastated and divided, and it remains a dangerous hotspot today. This timely collection synthesizes Canadian and international perspectives on a conflict that shaped not only the Canadian armed forces but also the evolving Canada-Korea relationship. In the process, Canada and the Korean War sheds light on how the war has been framed and reframed in public memory.
Author : Wes Hall
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781039002388
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From one of Canada's most successful business leaders, the founder of the BlackNorth Initiative and the newest and first Black Dragon in the Dragon's Den comes a rags-to-riches story that also carries a profound message of hope and change. Wes Hall spent his early childhood in a zinc-roofed shack, one of several children supported by his grandmother. That was paradise compared to the two years he lived with his verbally abusive and violent mother; at thirteen, his mother threw him out, and he had to live by his wits for the next three years. At sixteen, Wes came to Canada, sponsored by a father he'd only seen a few times as a child, and by the time he was eighteen, he was out of his father's house, once more on his own. Yet Wes Hall went on to become a major entrepreneur, business leader, philanthropist, and change-maker, working his way up from a humble position in a law firm mailroom by way of his intelligence, his curiosity, and his ability to see opportunities that other people don't. When people expected his thick Jamaican accent, lack of money and education, not to mention the colour of his skin, to shut down his future, Wes was not to be stopped. He is still overturning expectations to this day. Well aware of racism and injustice, his lack of privilege and the other roadblocks to his success, Wes has always believed that he can walk along any cliff edge without falling. His book teases out and shows how he fostered that resolve in himself, exploring his childhood and the milestone successes and failures of his career in order to share not only how he stopped himself from falling, but survived and thrived, and then dedicated himself to bringing his family and his community along with him. Now, with the founding of the BlackNorth Initiative, Wes takes aim at ending systemic anti-Black racism. It's a huge goal, but one he's tackling with heart, soul, smarts, and every connection he's made in an extraordinary career that's taken him to the centre of the Canadian establishment. Throughout his life he's resisted sinking into despair or getting lost in anger; now he wants to tell truth to power and pave a path forward.
Author : John Boyko
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781459738171
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017 As Sir John A. Macdonald intended, the federal government must be recognized as the nation’s voice. Power. It is the capacity to inspire while encouraging and enabling change, and it matters. When handled in a positive way, power is the key to the state’s ability to strengthen the nation and improve lives. But state power, John Boyko argues forcefully, works best when concentrated on a federal level, as Sir John A. Macdonald and Canada’s other founders intended. Provincial governments are essential, tending to local matters, administering and helping to fund national programs, and sometimes acting as incubators for ideas that grow to become national programs. But in fighting for scraps of power, premiers have often distracted from and occasionally hindered national progress. It is the federal government, as Boyko explains, that has been the primary force in nation building and emergency response, and is the only entity with the authority to speak for all Canadians. Canada has been at its best, and its strength will continue to grow, if we are true to Macdonald’s vision, with the federal government speaking for us in one voice, a voice that will remain Sir John’s echo.