Halifax The First 250 Years
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Halifax The First 250 Years
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Author : Judith Fingard
language : en
Publisher: Formac Publishing Company
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Halifax The First 250 Years written by Judith Fingard and has been published by Formac Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with History categories.
Three distinguished authors tell the story of Halifax, from its beginnings as a British settlement to counter the French establishment at Louisbourg, to its present-day status as one of Canada's most appealing cities.
The Long Way Home
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Author : John Demont
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2017-10-03
The Long Way Home written by John Demont and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with History categories.
The province's premier journalist tells the story he was born to write. No journalist has travelled the back roads, hidden vales and fog-soaked coves of Nova Scotia as widely as John DeMont. No writer has spent as much time considering its peculiar warp and weft of humanity, geography and history. The Long Way Home is the summation of DeMont's years of travel, research and thought. It tells the story of what is, from the European view of things, the oldest part of Canada. Before Confederation it was also the richest, but now Nova Scotia is among the poorest. Its defining myths and stories are mostly about loss and sheer determination. Equal parts narrative, memoir and meditation, The Long Way Home chronicles with enthralling clarity a complex and multi-dimensional story: the overwhelming of the first peoples and the arrival of a mélange of pioneers who carved out pockets of the wilderness; the random acts and unexplained mysteries; the shameful achievements and noble failures; the rapture and misery; the twists of destiny and the cold-heartedness of fate. This is the biography of a place that has been hardened by history. A place full of reminders of how great a province it has been and how great—with the right circumstances and a little luck—it could be again.
Halifax At War
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Author : William Naftel
language : en
Publisher: Formac Publishing Company Limited
Release Date : 2008-10-15
Halifax At War written by William Naftel and has been published by Formac Publishing Company Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-15 with History categories.
A history of Halifax's extraordinary role in the Second World War.
Seeking The Fabled City
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Author : Allan Levine
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2018-10-30
Seeking The Fabled City written by Allan Levine and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-30 with History categories.
In this definitive and meticulously researched account of the Jewish experience in Canada, award-winning and critically acclaimed author Allan Levine documents a story that is rich, accessible, often surprising, and epic in its scope. Relying on an abundance of primary sources and first-hand documentation and interviews, Seeking the Fabled City chronicles the successes and failures, the obstacles overcome and those not conquered, of a historic journey and the people who travelled it. Seeking the Fabled City is a story that unfolds over 250 years--from the decade after the conquest of New France in 1759, when small numbers of Sephardic Jews of Spanish and Portuguese descent arrived in British North America, through the great wave of Russian and Eastern European Jewish immigration at the turn of the twentieth century, to the present, in which Canada's large Jewish community, no longer hindered by the anti-Semitism of the past, is free to flourish. This is a chronicle of a people that takes place at hundreds of locales across the country--mainly in the large urban centres of Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, and Winnipeg, but also in west coast and maritime villages and tiny prairie towns--in a riveting drama with a cast of thousands. Relying on an abundance of primary sources and first-hand documentation and interviews, Seeking the Fabled City chronicles the successes and failures, the obstacles overcome and those not conquered, of a historic journey and the people who travelled it.
Viola Desmond
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Author : Graham Reynolds
language : en
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Release Date : 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z
Viola Desmond written by Graham Reynolds and has been published by Fernwood Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z with History categories.
Many Canadians know that Viola Desmond is the first Black, non-royal woman to be featured on Canadian currency. But fewer know the details of Viola Desmond’s life and legacy. In 1946, Desmond was arrested for refusing to give up her seat in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Her singular act of courage was a catalyst in the struggle for racial equality that eventually ended segregation in Nova Scotia. Authors Graham Reynolds and Wanda Robson (Viola’s sister) look beyond the theatre incident and provide new insights into her life. They detail not only her act of courage in resisting the practice of racial segregation in Canada, but also her extraordinary achievement as a pioneer African Canadian businesswoman. In spite of the widespread racial barriers that existed in Canada during most of the twentieth century, Viola Desmond became the pre-eminent Black beauty culturist in Canada, establishing the first Black beauty studio in Halifax and the Desmond School of Beauty Culture. She also created her own line of beauty products. Accessible, concise and timely, this book tells the incredible, important story of Viola Desmond, considered by many to be Canada’s Rosa Parks.
Historic Cities Of The Americas 2 Volumes
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Author : David F. Marley
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2005-09-12
Historic Cities Of The Americas 2 Volumes written by David F. Marley and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-12 with History categories.
With rare maps, prints, and photographs, this unique volume explores the dramatic history of the Americas through the birth and development of the hemisphere's great cities. Written by award-winning author David F. Marley, Historic Cities of the Americas covers the hard-to-find information of these cities' earliest years, including the unique aspects of each region's economy and demography, such as the growth of local mining, trade, or industry. The chronological layout, aided by the numerous maps and photographs, reveals the exceptional changes, relocations, destruction, and transformations these cities endured to become the metropolises they are today. Historic Cities of the Americas provides over 70 extensively detailed entries covering the foundation and evolution of the most significant urban areas in the western hemisphere. Critically researched, this work offers a rare look into the times prior to Christopher Columbus' arrival in 1492 and explores the common difficulties overcome by these European-conquered or -founded cities as they flourished into some of the most influential locations in the world.
Lawyers And Legal Culture In British North America
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Author : Philip Girard
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Lawyers And Legal Culture In British North America written by Philip Girard and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Law categories.
From award-winning biographer Philip Girard, Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America is the first history of the legal profession in Canada to emphasize its cross-provincial similarities and its deep roots in the colonial period. Girard details how nineteenth-century British North American lawyers created a distinctive Canadian template for the profession by combining the strong collective governance of the English tradition with the high degree of creativity and client responsiveness characteristic of U.S. lawyers a mix that forms the basis of the legal profession in Canada today. Girard provides a unique window on the interconnections between lawyers' roles as community leaders and as legal professionals. Centred on one pre-Confederation lawyer whose career epitomizes the trends of his day, Beamish Murdoch (1800-1876), Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America makes an important and compelling contribution to Canadian legal history.
Curse Of The Narrows
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Author : Laura M. Mac Donald
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2009-05-26
Curse Of The Narrows written by Laura M. Mac Donald and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-26 with History categories.
In 1917, the port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was crowded with ships leaving for war-torn Europe. On December 6th, two of them-the Mont Blanc and the Imo-collided in the Narrows, a hard-to-navigate stretch of the harbor. Ablaze, and with explosions on her deck filling the sky, the Mont Blanc grounded against the city's docks. As thousands rushed to their windows and into the streets to watch, she exploded with such force that the 3,121 tons of her iron hull vaporized in a cloud that shot up more than 2,000 feet; the explosion was so unusual that Robert Oppenheimer would study its effects to predict the devastation of an atomic bomb. The blast caused a giant wave that swept over parts of the city, followed by a slick, black rain that fell for ten minutes. Much of the city was flattened, and not one in 12,000 buildings within a 16-mile radius left undamaged. More than 1,600 Haligonians were killed and 6,000 injured; and within twenty-four hours, a blizzard had isolated Halifax from the world. Set vividly against the background of World War I, Curse of the Narrows is the first major account of the world's largest pre-atomic explosion, the epic relief mission from Boston, and the riveting trial of the Mont Blanc's captain and pilot. Laura M. Mac Donald is as adept at describing the dynamics of a chain reaction explosion as she is at chronicling unforgettable human dramas of miraculous survival, unfathomable loss, and the medical breakthroughs in pediatrics and eye surgery that followed the disaster . Using primary sources--many of which haven't been read in decades and--with a wonderful feel for narrative history, Mac Donald chronicles one of the most compelling and dramatic events of the 20th century.
Exploring Nova Scotia
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Author : Dale Dunlop
language : en
Publisher: Formac Publishing Company
Release Date : 2010-05-20
Exploring Nova Scotia written by Dale Dunlop and has been published by Formac Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-20 with Travel categories.
Nova Scotia is an attractive destination for travellers from all over the world. This book is the authoritative independent guide to the province's best attractions many of them well-known, but many little-known even to Nova Scotia residents. Along with the activity guide are reliable, independent recommendations for accommodations and dining throughout the province. Written with local knowledge, and entirely independent in its descriptions and recommendations, this book offers reliable and consistent advice and comment which is unavailable from any other source on the web or in book form. It is the key to enjoyable and exciting travel in Nova Scotia. This new edition includes a very wide range of activities, from sea kayaking to golf, from shopping trips to genealogy searches. Dale Dunlop and Alison Scott take the readers down every interesting back road in the province.
Law Debt And Merchant Power
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Author : James Muir
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2016-01-01
Law Debt And Merchant Power written by James Muir and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-01 with History categories.
In the early history of Halifax (1749-1766), debt litigation was extremely common. In Law, Debt, and Merchant Power, James Muir offers an extensive analysis of the civil cases of the time as well as the reasons behind their frequency.