Canada Firsts
Author : Ralph Nader
Publisher : Country Roads Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780936758251
First in Canada
Author : Jonathan Anuik
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 16,84 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0889772401
Book Description
Takes readers through one calendar year of Aboriginal history, providing visuals and details of past and contemporary achievements and challenges of First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples of Canada.
Two Firsts
Author : Constance Backhouse
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,79 MB
Release : 2019-03-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1772600946
Book Description
Bertha Wilson and Claire L’Heureux-Dubé were the first women judges on the Supreme Court of Canada. Their 1980s judicial appointments delighted feminists and shocked the legal establishment. Polar opposites in background and temperament, the two faced many identical challenges. Constance Backhouse’s compelling narrative explores the sexist roadblocks both women faced in education, law practice, and in the courts. She profiles their different ways of coping, their landmark decisions for women’s rights, and their less stellar records on race. To explore the lives and careers of these two path-breaking women is to venture into a world of legal sexism from a past era. The question becomes, how much of that sexism has been relegated to the bins of history, and how much continues?
Canada's First Nations
Author : Olive Patricia Dickason
Publisher : Editorial Galaxia
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 40,83 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806124391
Book Description
This history of Amerindian and Inuit experience from first arrival from Asia to the present day, uses and interdisciplinary approach to describe the various societies and cultures, their response to colonial pressure, and current attempts of preserve territories and traditional values.
First Peoples of Canada
Author : Jean-Luc Pilon
Publisher :
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Indian art
ISBN : 9781442616769
Book Description
This beautifully designed, full-colour book presents a collection of 150 archaeological and ethnographic objects produced by Canada's First Peoples - including some that are roughly 12,000 years old - that represent spectacular expressions of creativity and ingenuity.
For King and Kanata
Author : Timothy Charles Winegard
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 35,76 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0887554180
Book Description
"The first comprehensive history of the Aboriginal First World War experience on the battlefield and the home front. When the call to arms was heard at the outbreak of the First World War, Canada's First Nations pledged their men and money to the Crown to honour their long-standing tradition of forming military alliances with Europeans during times of war, and as a means of resisting cultural assimilation and attaining equality through shared service and sacrifice. Initially, the Canadian government rejected these offers based on the belief that status Indians were unsuited to modern, civilized warfare. But in 1915, Britain intervened and demanded Canada actively recruit Indian soldiers to meet the incessant need for manpower. Thus began the complicated relationships between the Imperial Colonial and War Offices, the Department of Indian Affairs, and the Ministry of Militia that would affect every aspect of the war experience for Canada's Aboriginal soldiers. In his groundbreaking new book, For King and Kanata, Timothy C. Winegard reveals how national and international forces directly influenced the more than 4,000 status Indians who voluntarily served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force between 1914 and 1919--a per capita percentage equal to that of Euro-Canadians--and how subsequent administrative policies profoundly affected their experiences at home, on the battlefield, and as returning veterans."--Publisher's website.
Seeing Red
Author : Mark Cronlund Anderson
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 44,81 MB
Release : 2011-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0887554067
Book Description
The first book to examine the role of Canada’s newspapers in perpetuating the myth of Native inferiority. Seeing Red is a groundbreaking study of how Canadian English-language newspapers have portrayed Aboriginal peoples from 1869 to the present day. It assesses a wide range of publications on topics that include the sale of Rupert’s Land, the signing of Treaty 3, the North-West Rebellion and Louis Riel, the death of Pauline Johnson, the outing of Grey Owl, the discussions surrounding Bill C-31, the “Bended Elbow” standoff at Kenora, Ontario, and the Oka Crisis. The authors uncover overwhelming evidence that the colonial imaginary not only thrives, but dominates depictions of Aboriginal peoples in mainstream newspapers. The colonial constructs ingrained in the news media perpetuate an imagined Native inferiority that contributes significantly to the marginalization of Indigenous people in Canada. That such imagery persists to this day suggests strongly that our country lives in denial, failing to live up to its cultural mosaic boosterism.
Black Loyalists
Author : Ruth Holmes Whithead
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1771080175
Book Description
“Engaging and steeped in years of research . . . a must read for all who care about the intersection of Canadian, American, British, and African history.” —Lawrence Hill, award-winning author of Someone Knows My Name In an attempt to ruin the American economy during the Revolutionary War, the British government offered freedom to slaves who would desert their rebel masters. Many Black men and women escaped to the British fleet patrolling the East Coast, or to the British armies invading the colonies from Maine to Georgia. After the final surrender of the British to the Americans, New York City was evacuated by the British Army throughout the summer and fall of 1783. Carried away with them were a vast number of White Loyalists and their families, and over 3,000 Black Loyalists: free, indentured, apprenticed, or still enslaved. More than 2,700 Black people came to Nova Scotia with the fleet from New York City. Black Loyalists strives to present hard data about the lives of Nova Scotia Black Loyalists before they escaped slavery in early South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and after they settled in Nova Scotia—to tell the little-known story of some very brave and enterprising men and women who survived the chaos of the American Revolution, people who found a way to pass through the heart, ironically, of a War for Liberty, to find their own liberty and human dignity. Includes historical images and documents
A Concise History of Canada's First Nations
Author : Olive Patricia Dickason
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
Presents a concise history of Canada's original inhabitants, Indians, Inuit, and Metis.
A Knock on the Door
Author : Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 29,75 MB
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0887555381
Book Description
“It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residential schools prepared by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). Between 2008 and 2015, the TRC provided opportunities for individuals, families, and communities to share their experiences of residential schools and released several reports based on 7000 survivor statements and five million documents from government, churches, and schools, as well as a solid grounding in secondary sources. A Knock on the Door, published in collaboration with the National Research Centre for Truth & Reconciliation, gathers material from the several reports the TRC has produced to present the essential history and legacy of residential schools in a concise and accessible package that includes new materials to help inform and contextualize the journey to reconciliation that Canadians are now embarked upon. Survivor and former National Chief of the Assembly First Nations, Phil Fontaine, provides a Foreword, and an Afterword introduces the holdings and opportunities of the National Centre for Truth & Reconciliation, home to the archive of recordings, and documents collected by the TRC. As Aimée Craft writes in the Afterword, knowing the historical backdrop of residential schooling and its legacy is essential to the work of reconciliation. In the past, agents of the Canadian state knocked on the doors of Indigenous families to take the children to school. Now, the Survivors have shared their truths and knocked back. It is time for Canadians to open the door to mutual understanding, respect, and reconciliation.
