Authors:Larry S. Bourne, David F. Ley,
Publisher: Mcgill Queens Univ Pr
Keywords: canadian, geography, geographers, series, association, cities, changing, social
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1993-05
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0773509720
ISBN-13: 9780773509726

This volume demonstrates the richness and diversity of the social landscapes and communities in Canadian urban centres, emphasizing changes which occurred in the period from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s.

Authors:Brereton Greenhous, Canadian War Museum,
Publisher: Dundurn
Keywords: canadian, museum, historical, publication, war, catastrophe, hong, kong, force
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1997-06-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1550022679
ISBN-13: 9781550022674

This is the story of a "no military risk" campaign that slowly turned into a nightmare. The book provides new answers to a number of difficult questions beginning with a discussion of why Canadian troops were sent to Hong Kong at the request of the British War Office. Were the British duplicitous in making this request? Was Canadian Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar, guilty of putting his own interests above those of his men in telling the minister of National Defence that there was "no military risk" in sending the "C" Force? The book recounts the formation of the "C

Author: W. H. New
Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr
Keywords: canadian, special, issue, literature, writing, writers, native
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1991-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0774803711
ISBN-13: 9780774803717

"Native Writers and Canadian Writing" focuses on literature by and about Canada’s Native peoples and contains original articles and poems by both Native and non-Native writers. These not only reflect the growing prominence of contemporary Native writing but also direct the reader to the traditional literature from which it springs and which has been largely misunderstood by the non-Native community -- myths, rituals, and songs having been interpreted more often as artistic "curiosities" rather than the masterworks of a different culture. Essays examining the conventional portrayals of Na

Author: Dean Irvine
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Keywords: canadian, writers, reappraisals, meet, modernists
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2005-07-12
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0776605992
ISBN-13: 9780776605999

The Canadian Modernists Meet is a collection of new critical essays on major and rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. F.R. Scott’s well-known poem ’The Canadian Authors Meet’ sets the theme for the volume: a revisiting of English Canada’s formative movements in modernist poetry, fiction, and drama. As did Scott’s poem, Dean Irvine’s collection raises questions - about modernism and antimodernism, nationalism and antinationalism, gender and class, originality and influence - that remain central to contemporary research on early

Author: K. P. Stich
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Keywords: canadian, writers, reappraisals, literature, reflections, autobiography
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1988-01-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0776601954
ISBN-13: 9780776601953

This volume discusses the autobiographical inclination in Canadian literature, exploring works by such writers as Alice Munro, W.O. Mitchell, Michael Ondaatje, John Glassco, and Susanna Moodie. Others works, including the oral memoirs of a Métis, an Inuit’s account as being civil servant in Ottawa, and the autobiographical writings of pioneer women and French missionaries are examined to show the depth and breadth of this tradition in Canada. These texts act as starting points for an indepth look at the relationships between autobiography, biography and fiction in Canadian literature.

Author: Peter Marshall Butler
Publisher: University of Toronto Pre
Keywords: canadian, perspective, society, public, opinion
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2007-05-12
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0802038190
ISBN-13: 9780802038197

The importance of polling public opinion is widely recognized today. Indeed, it is sometimes argued that in mass societies, polls have also become an important medium for communicating ideas and beliefs, especially since many people have become less involved in community organizations and interest groups that formerly connected them to events and issues. Polling and Public Opinion examines the impact that polls have on the thoughts and behaviour of the public.Peter M. Butler considers the power of public opinion polls as an element of mass persuasion in media stories, advertising, and governme

Author: Janice Fiamengo
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Keywords: canadian, reappraisals, writers, imagination, literary, animals, selves
Number of Pages: 366
Published: 2007-07-12
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 077660645X
ISBN-13: 9780776606453

Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination begins with the premise, first suggested by Margaret Atwood in The Animals in That Country (1968), that animals have occupied a peculiarly central position in the Canadian imagination. Unlike the longer-settled countries of Europe or the more densely-populated United States, in Canada animals have always been the loved and feared co-inhabitants of this harsh, beautiful land. From the realistic animal tales of Charles G. D. Roberts and Ernest Thompson Seton, to the urban animals of Marshall Saunders and Dennis Lee, to the lyrical observ