The Story Of Confederation

Author : Copthorne Macdonald
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781550022810

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Bridging the Strait by Copthorne Macdonald Pdf

June 1997 marked the opening of the Confederation Bridge which spans the Northumberland Strait and connects Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick. The bridge, designed and built by the international consortium Strait Crossing, is one of the most innovative engineering projects undertaken in Canada. It is the longest bridge ever constructed over ice covered water and one of the longest continuous multi-span bridges in the world. Bridging the Strait describes the arduous trips taken by ice boats, ferries, steamers and ice breakers which have been the link to PEI. The author, Copthorne Macdonald, traces the events leading up to the building of the bridge. He explains the problems faced by the Strait Crossing team, and tells the story of how they overcame challenging obstacles such as ice, wind and treacherous ocean currents. The stunning achievement of the Confederation Bridge is celebrated in this handsome book. It highlights the contribution of Strait Crossing, and Public Works Canada, who steered the project from conception to completion, and it provides a fitting tribute to the engineers and designers who solved the technical problems and the workers who sacrificed to bring the project to fruition.

Author : Anne McDonald
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 A unique historical document, her diary is now being published for the first time, offering a window into the events that led to Canada’s creation, from a point of view that has long been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 : Greg Malone
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Donald Creighton
Publisher : OUP Canada
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0195449215

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The Road to Confederation: by Donald Creighton Pdf

This sweeping historical narrative by award-winning historian Donald Creighton recounts the personalities and events behind Canada's confederation. First published to celebrate Canada's centenary, The Road to Confederation is now being reissued to mark the 150-year anniversary of nationhood.

Author : James Rodger Miller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802097415

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Compact, Contract, Covenant by James Rodger Miller Pdf

"Compact, Contract, Covenant" is renowned historian of Native-newcomer relations J.R. Miller's exploration and explanation of more than four centuries of treating-making.

Author : Rod McQueen
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart Limited
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0771056389

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Who Killed Confederation Life? by Rod McQueen Pdf

When Confederation Life Insurance Co. was seized by regulators on August 11, 1994, it ranked as the fourth largest insurance company in Canada, and was among the top 30 in North America. With $19 billion (Cdn.) in assets, the company's collapse wiped out 4,400 jobs, threw into disarray owners of 250,000 policies and contracts in Canada, plus another 800,000 outside the country. It also severely damaged confidence in Canada's substantial insurance industry. In a no-holds-barred account of the debacle, financial journalist Rod McQueen documents how it all happened, and shows how Confederation Life's failure was due to the combined failure of the company and the larger public sector. Directors did not hold management sufficiently accountable, officers let things get out of hand, regulators were tardy, then threatened with too small a stick, auditors missed the big picture, politicians showed neither courage nor conviction, and, rather than help, industry representatives dithered. Any one individual among those six constituencies could have affected the course of the corporation's history sufficiently to prevent its collapse. In 1994 McQueen wrote a detailed three-part article in the "Financial Post about the Confederation Life scandal. Now, having extensively researched the history of the company, and having conducted over a hundred interviews, he has written a "whodunit" tale of Canada's biggest business story of the decade.

Author : R. Edward Gosnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Canada
ISBN : NYPL:33433067357933

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The Story of Confederation by R. Edward Gosnell Pdf

Author : Chet Van Duzer,Lauren Beck
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781622733460

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Canada before Confederation: Maps at the Exhibition by Chet Van Duzer,Lauren Beck Pdf

Each of the maps featured in this book was showcased in the exhibition “Canada before Confederation: Early Exploration and Mapping,” which took place in several locations, both in Canada and abroad, in Fall of 2017. The authors provide a scholarly study highlighting the importance and unique features of each of these jewels of cartographic history, with particular attention paid to how they demonstrate the development of Canadian identity at the same time that they reveal Indigenous knowledge of the lands now known as Canada.

Author : Peter H. Russell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487514488

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Canada's Odyssey by Peter H. Russell Pdf

150 years after Confederation, Canada is known around the world for its social diversity and its commitment to principles of multiculturalism. But the road to contemporary Canada is a winding one, a story of division and conflict as well as union and accommodation. In Canada’s Odyssey, renowned scholar Peter H. Russell provides an expansive, accessible account of Canadian history from the pre-Confederation period to the present day. By focusing on what he calls the "three pillars" of English Canada, French Canada, and Aboriginal Canada, Russell advances an important view of our country as one founded on and informed by "incomplete conquests". It is the very incompleteness of these conquests that have made Canada what it is today, not just a multicultural society but a multinational one. Featuring the scope and vivid characterizations of an epic novel, Canada’s Odyssey is a magisterial work by an astute observer of Canadian politics and history, a perfect book to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Confederation.

Author : John Kennedy Toole
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Norman Campbell,Don Harron,Mavor Moore,Elaine Campbell
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : S. French
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : E. R. Forbes,Ernest R. Forbes,Delphin Andrew Muise,Bill Parenteau
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Mark Zuehlke,Alexander Finbow,Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair
Publisher : Renegade Arts Entertainment Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0992150892

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The Loxleys and Confederation by Mark Zuehlke,Alexander Finbow,Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair Pdf

1864 was a pivotal time in Canadian history, as economic and military threats from America had placed the Canada's in grave danger once again. Taking the form of a travelogue The Loxleys and Confederation details George Loxley's attempts to unite the provinces. He is joined along the way by his daughter and her daughter, Lillian. It is Lilian's diary entries and her developing love story that threads the history together.

Author : Donald Grant Creighton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Canada
ISBN : UVA:X000530374

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The Road to Confederation by Donald Grant Creighton Pdf

Donald Creighton was for many years one of Canada's foremost historians, a firm believer that history was closer to art than it was to science. Marked by beautiful, carefully crafted prose, The Road to Confederation reflects a style that perhaps no contemporary historian would dare: romantic, suspenseful, fearlessly narrative, and full of unapologetic opinions. If not politically correct and sanitized, it is a fascinating exploration of the personalities, the political logjams, even the debt problems that marked the period leading to Confederation. The book was also, as Donald Wright's excellent introduction argues, haunted by doubt. Not only had Canada failed to live up to Creighton's vision, Creighton himself was writing from the perspective of a rapidly changing country. Quebec was moving towards a liberal, secular, and nationalist identity; English Canada was embracing bilingualism and diversity; debates about nuclear weapons were raging; and living next to the United States was becoming increasingly uneasy. The road was becoming ever less straightforward. In many respects, The Road to Confederation reveals as much about the 1960s as it does the 1860s.

Author : Jacqueline Krikorian,Marcel Martel,Adrian Shubert
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487515041

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Globalizing Confederation by Jacqueline Krikorian,Marcel Martel,Adrian Shubert Pdf

Globalizing Confederation brings together original research from 17 scholars to provide an international perspective on Canada’s Confederation in 1867. In seeking to ascertain how others understood, constructed or considered the changes taking place in British North America, Globalizing Confederation unpacks a range of viewpoints, including those from foreign governments, British colonies, and Indigenous peoples. Exploring perspectives from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, France, Latin America, New Zealand, and the Vatican, among others, as well as considering the impact of Confederation on the rights of Indigenous peoples during this period, the contributors to this collection present how Canada’s Confederation captured the imaginations of people around the world in the 1860s. Globalizing Confederation reveals how some viewed the 1867 changes to Canada as part of a reorganization of the British Empire, while others contextualized it in the literature on colonization more broadly, while still others framed the event as part of a re-alignment or power shift among the Spanish, French and British empires. While many people showed interest in the Confederation debates, others, such as South Africa and the West Indies, expressed little interest in the establishment of Canada until it had profound effects on their corners of the global political landscape.