Miss Confederation

Author : Anne McDonald
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459739697

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Miss Confederation by Anne McDonald Pdf

History without the stiffness and polish time creates. Canada’s journey to Confederation kicked off with a bang — or rather, a circus, a civil war (the American one), a small fortune’s worth of champagne, and a lot of making love — in the old-fashioned sense. Miss Confederation offers a rare look back, through a woman’s eyes, at the men and events at the centre of this pivotal time in Canada’s history. Mercy Anne Coles, the daughter of PEI delegate George Coles, kept a diary of the social happenings and political manoeuvrings as they affected her and her desires. A unique historical document, her diary is now being published for the first time, offering a window into the events that led to Canada’s creation, from a point of view that has long been neglected.

Author : Anne McDonald
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459739680

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Miss Confederation by Anne McDonald Pdf

Amidst the grand and heady spectacle of the balls, banquets, and events of the Confederation Conferences of October 1864, Mercy Coles was seeking adventure and love. She wasn’t concerned with writing for posterity, or with propriety. Miss Confederation shows history being made, without the stiffness and polish time creates.

Author : John Kennedy Toole
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197627

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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Pdf

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).

Author : Greg Malone
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307401342

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Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders by Greg Malone Pdf

The true story, drawn from official documents and hours of personal interviews, of how Newfoundland and Labrador joined Confederation and became Canada's tenth province in 1949. A rich cast of characters--hailing from Britain, America, Canada and Newfoundland--battle it out for the prize of the resource-rich, financially solvent, militarily strategic island. The twists and turns are as dramatic as any spy novel and extremely surprising, since the "official" version of Newfoundland history has held for over fifty years almost without question. Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders will change all that.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951000734825E

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Grip by Anonim Pdf

Author : D'Arcy Jenish
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385663274

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The Making of the October Crisis by D'Arcy Jenish Pdf

A definitive, mind-changing history of the October Crisis and the events leading up to it. The first bombs exploded in Montreal in the spring of 1963, and over the next seven years there were hundreds more bombings, many bank robberies, six murders and, in October 1970, the kidnappings of a British diplomat and a Quebec cabinet minister. The perpetrators were members of the Front de libération du Québec, dedicated to establishing a sovereign and socialist Quebec. Half a century on, we should have reached some clear understanding of what led to the October Crisis. Instead, too much attention has been paid to the Crisis and not enough to the years preceding it. Most of those who have written about the FLQ have been ardent nationalists, committed sovereigntists or former terrorists. They tell us that the authorities should have negotiated with the kidnappers and contend that Jean Drapeau's administration and the governments of Robert Bourassa and Pierre Trudeau created the October Crisis by invoking the War Measures Act. Using new research and interviews, D'Arcy Jenish tells for the first time the complete story—starting from the spring of 1963. This gripping narrative by a veteran journalist and master storyteller will change forever the way we view this dark chapter in Canadian history.

Author : Joan E. Cashin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674029262

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First Lady of the Confederacy by Joan E. Cashin Pdf

When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. For this highly intelligent, acutely observant woman, loyalty did not come easily: she spent long years struggling to reconcile her societal duties to her personal beliefs. Raised in Mississippi but educated in Philadelphia, and a long-time resident of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Davis never felt at ease in Richmond. During the war she nursed Union prisoners and secretly corresponded with friends in the North. Though she publicly supported the South, her term as First Lady was plagued by rumors of her disaffection. After the war, Varina Davis endured financial woes and the loss of several children, but following her husband's death in 1889, she moved to New York and began a career in journalism. Here she advocated reconciliation between the North and South and became friends with Julia Grant, the widow of Ulysses S. Grant. She shocked many by declaring in a newspaper that it was God's will that the North won the war. A century after Varina Davis's death in 1906, Joan E. Cashin has written a masterly work, the first definitive biography of this truly modern, but deeply conflicted, woman. Pro-slavery but also pro-Union, Varina Davis was inhibited by her role as Confederate First Lady and unable to reveal her true convictions. In this pathbreaking book, Cashin offers a splendid portrait of a fascinating woman who struggled with the constraints of her time and place.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Black Dog Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 1911164694

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Kent Monkman by Anonim Pdf

Kent Monkman's new, large-scale project takes the viewer on a journey through Canada's history that starts in the present and takes us back to 150 years before Confederation. With its entry points in the harsh urban environment of Winnipeg's north end, and contemporary life on the reserve, Kent Monkman: Shame and Prejudice, A Story of Resilience takes us all the way back to the period of New France and the fur trade. The Rococo masterpiece The Swing by Jean-Honore ́ Fragonard has been reinterpreted as an installation with Monkman's alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, in a beaver trimmed baroque dress, swinging back and forth between the Generals Wolfe and Montcalm. The book includes Monkman's own paintings, drawings and sculptural works, in dialogue with historical artefacts and art works borrowed from museum and private collections from across Canada.

Author : Norman Campbell,Don Harron,Mavor Moore,Elaine Campbell
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : S. French
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Musicals
ISBN : 0573080399

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Anne of Green Gables by Norman Campbell,Don Harron,Mavor Moore,Elaine Campbell Pdf

Ageing Matthew Cuthbert suffers a heart attack during harvest, 1903, and his grim-visaged sister determines to adopt an orphanage boy to help with the farm work at Green Gables. By mistake, a girl arrives, red-haired, freckled and over-talkative. Her vivid imagination and entertaining flow of chatter endear her to Matthew, but sister Marilla is set on packing her back as soon as possible.13 women, 12 men

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1662 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015057968466

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : Library of Congress,Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1540 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : MINN:30000009886312

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress,Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy Pdf

Author : E. R. Forbes,Ernest R. Forbes,Delphin Andrew Muise,Bill Parenteau
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802068170

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The Atlantic Provinces in Confederation by E. R. Forbes,Ernest R. Forbes,Delphin Andrew Muise,Bill Parenteau Pdf

The Atlantic Provinces cover New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland.

Author : Jack M. Mintz,Tom Flanagan
Publisher : Sutherland House Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Alberta
ISBN : 1989555365

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Moment of Truth by Jack M. Mintz,Tom Flanagan Pdf

"This book was motivated by the inherent unfairness and inequality of Alberta and western Canada's position within Canadian confederation. What westerners ultimately need to decide is this: is the best response to that unfairness and inequality to carve out of Canada and the great northwest a smaller but separate country? Or is the best response to clearly define what would constitute a genuine Fair Deal, not just for Alberta but for all Canadians who share our values and perspectives on what this country should be? That is the decision we invariably have to make. Do we pursue the little western path of yet another division of the northwest, this time via secession? Or do we pursue the big western path aimed at nothing less than fairness for ourselves and for all Canadians through a re-confederation?"--

Author : Hans Christian Kroger,P. Tigrid,C. Brooks,C. Church
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 1480 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9041115382

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Annuaire Europeen 1998 / European Yearbook 1998 by Hans Christian Kroger,P. Tigrid,C. Brooks,C. Church Pdf

The "European Yearbook" promotes the scientific study of nineteen European supranational organisations and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Each volume contains a detailed survey of the history, structure and yearly activities of each organisation and an up-to-date chart providing a clear overview of the member states of each organisation. In addition, a number of articles on topics of general interest are included in each volume. A general index by subject and name, and a cumulative index of all the articles which have appeared in the "Yearbook," are included in every volume and provide direct access to the "Yearbook"'s subject matter. Each volume contains a comprehensive bibliography covering the year's relevant publications. This is an indispensable work of reference for anyone dealing with the European institutions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Almanacs, Canadian
ISBN : WISC:89063025712

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Canadian Almanac & Directory by Anonim Pdf