Author : Peter E. Rider
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1772824003
Authors associated with seven leading museums from Atlantic Canada have contributed chapters for this volume. Each explains how history has been interpreted in his particular institution, describing the themes which are stressed and outlining the reasons for adopting the interpretive approaches which are used. The text and accompanying photographs provide a glimpse of the contents of the museums and place the exhibits in their operational and intellectual context.
Author : A. J. H. Richardson
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1772824038
This volume contains biographies of over four hundred architects, artisans and builders who worked in Quebec during the first three centuries of the town’s existence. Detailed descriptions of their works, as well as numerous illustrations, help paint a broad picture of building in Quebec.
Author : Lynda Price
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1772823996
This volume comprises a historical study of the Scottish urban elite of Quebec between 1780 and 1840 whose educational, religious, philanthropic, and economic institutions demonstrate a strong continuity with their homeland and resistance to cultural assimilation within the larger French Canadian society.
Author : Mary E. Bond
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 1102 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780774805650
In parallel columns of French and English, lists over 4,000 reference works and books on history and the humanities, breaking down the large divisions by subject, genre, type of document, and province or territory. Includes titles of national, provincial, territorial, or regional interest in every subject area when available. The entries describe the core focus of the book, its range of interest, scholarly paraphernalia, and any editions in the other Canadian language. The humanities headings are arts, language and linguistics, literature, performing arts, philosophy, and religion. Indexed by name, title, and French and English subject. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Publisher :
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Canada
ISBN :
Author : D. R. Richeson
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 177282397X
Focusing on the presentation of Western Canadian history to the general public, this volume compares exhibitions from the British Columbia Provincial Museum, the Vancouver Centennial Museum, the Glenbow-Alberta Institute, the Alberta Provincial Museum, the Western Development Museum in Moose Jaw and the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature.
Author : David T. Ruddel
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 177282402X
This book provides a brief but sweeping treatment of the history of resource use in Canada. Subjects discussed include attitudes of the Native peoples and the colonists towards the environment, exploration, fishing, the fur trade, the timber industry, mining, immigration, farming, industrialization and urbanization, and the exploitation of resources today. Historical illustrations and photographs of artifacts and reconstitutions from the exhibits at the National Museum of Man, Ottawa, complete the text.
Author : L. A. Koltun
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1772823961
This study examines the life and work of a rural nineteenth-century Ontario cabinetmaker, Francis Jones. An appreciation of his work is gained through illustrations and discussions of his shop and furniture-making techniques. This story is typical of many nineteenth-century crafts when industrialization resulted in mass production and the disappearance of traditional trades.
Author : Barbara Lang Rottenberg
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1772824011
This volume examines glass manufacturing in Canada through individual company histories and includes a survey of pressed glass patterns in the National Museum of Man collections.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 1981
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