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Babylon Books Introduction by Pierre Berton.
Author : Michael Benedict
Publisher :
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780140278699
Babylon Books Introduction by Pierre Berton.
Author : William Weintraub
Publisher : Robin Brass Studio
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Montréal (Québec)
ISBN : 9781896941424
Montreal in the 1940s and '50s was Canada's largest, richest, most vibrant and colourful city. It was, at the end of those prosperous decades, "bursting at the seams" and still growing. William Weintraub, writing with insight and affection, brings the Montreal of his youth vividly, entertainingly and wittily to life. The Montreal he describes so well was a city with two communities, English and French, who lived separate lives. They met along the dividing line that was "the Main" -- St Lawrence Boulevard and the nearby streets, where gambling joints, bordellos and night clubs prospered, and where striptease artiste Lili St. Cyr became the toast of the town and gangsters raked in profits while the police looked the other way. It was the Montreal of the charismatic Mayor Camilien Houde within the repressive Quebec of Premier Maurice Duplessis. Weintraub also looks at what he calls the Third Solitude, Montreal's Jewish community, which brought not just smoked meat and delicatessens to the vibrant area around the Main but a lively community that has played a major part in shaping the city and from which sprang such writers as Mordecai Richler and Irving Layton. William Weintraub looks at all aspects of life in Montreal in what Mordecai Richler called "an engaging, evocative book about Montreal's prime-time".
Author : Alexander Ross
Publisher :
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 41,96 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780919644274
Author : A.I.D. International
Publisher : London, Ont. : A.I.D. International, 197
Page : pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 197?
Category : Canada History 1945-1963 Juvenile films
ISBN :
Author : John C. Super
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :
Surveys the events and people of the United States and Canada from 1950 through 1959.
Author : Denise Leclerc
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Carlotta Hacker
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Canada
ISBN :
Discusses significant events in Canadian history during the 1950s.
Author : Nelson Wiseman
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 2023-01-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781487551018
1950s Canada chronicles the social, economic, and cultural developments of Canadian politics and public affairs in the 1950s.
Author : Ernest Tate
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 29,31 MB
Release : 2014-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780902869691
Ernest Tate's memoir is an important contribution to the history of the left in Britain and Canada during a unique period. It's a political life of Ernest tate's life as a socialist during the fifteen year period from 1955 to 1970. In volume one, he tells us about his arrival from Toronto in 1955 as a working-class immigrant from Northern Ireland and about how he quickly became engaged in radical politics.
Author : Robert Vipond
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 MB
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442624434
Half of Toronto’s population is born outside of Canada and over 140 languages are spoken on the city's streets and in its homes. How to build community amidst such diversity is one of the global challenges that Canada – and many other western nations – has to face head on. Making a Global City critically examines the themes of diversity and community in a single primary school, the Clinton Street Public School in Toronto, between 1920 and 1990. From the swift and seismic shift from a Jewish to southern European demographic in the 1950s to the gradual globalized community starting in the 1970s, Vipond eloquently and clearly highlights the challenges posed by multicultural citizenship in a city that was dominated by Anglo-Protestants. Contrary to recent well-documented anti-immigrant rhetoric in the media, Making a Global City celebrates one of the world’s most multicultural cities while stressing the fact that public schools are a vital tool in integrating and accepting immigrants and children in liberal democracies.