New And Naked Land Making The Prairies Home
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New And Naked Land Making The Prairies Home
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Author : Ronald Rees
language : en
Publisher: Saskatoon : Western Producer Prairie Books
Release Date : 1988
New And Naked Land Making The Prairies Home written by Ronald Rees and has been published by Saskatoon : Western Producer Prairie Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Human beings categories.
The Prairie West As Promised Land
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Author : R. Douglas Francis
language : en
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Release Date : 2007
The Prairie West As Promised Land written by R. Douglas Francis and has been published by University of Calgary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Millions of immigrants were attracted to the Canadian West by promotional literature from the government in the late 19th century to the First World War bringing with them visions of opportunity to create a Utopian society or a chance to take control of their own destinies.
Rediscovering The Prairies
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Author : Norman Henderson
language : en
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
Release Date : 2011-07-06
Rediscovering The Prairies written by Norman Henderson and has been published by TouchWood Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-06 with History categories.
In the early days, Plains Indians travelled on foot across the vast Canadian prairies, with only fierce, wolf-like dogs as companions. Later, with the arrival of Europeans, horses and canoes appeared on the scene. In Rediscovering the Prairies, Norman Henderson, a leading scholar of the world’s great temperate grasslands, revives the earlier modes of prairie travel. He journeys along 325 kilometres of Saskatchewan’s Qu’Appelle Valley by dog and travois (the wooden rack pulled by dogs and horses used by First Nations to transport belongings), then by canoe, and finally by horse and travois. Henderson’s often humourous descriptions of his attempts to find and train a dog and a horse highlight the difficulties involved in recreating traditional travel methods. Henderson interweaves his own adventures with the exploits of earlier travellers, such as La Vérendrye, Alexander Henry and Peter Fidler, and the experiences of fur traders and others who struggled across this strange and forbidding landscape. His captivating account will foster a better appreciation for, and a deeper understanding of, the natural and human history of the Canadian prairies.
Across This Land
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Author : John C. Hudson
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-11
Across This Land written by John C. Hudson and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-11 with Architecture categories.
Incorporating the latest available population and economic data, this thoroughly updated edition includes; reflections on new developments, such as resource schemes, Native governments in Atlantic Canada, and the role of climate change in the Arctic; a new section focused on the US Pacific insular territories west of Hawaii; evolving views of oil and gas production resulting from the introduction of hydraulic fracturing; revised text and maps involving agricultural production based on the 2017 Census of Agriculture; current place names; more than 130 photographsThe most extensive regional geography of the North American continent on the market, Hudson's Across This Land will continue as the standard text in geography courses dealing with Canada and the United States, as well as a popular reference work for scholars, students, and lay readers.
The Weekender Effect
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Author : Robert William Sandford
language : en
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Release Date : 2011-02-01
The Weekender Effect written by Robert William Sandford and has been published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-01 with Nature categories.
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies. As cities continue to grow at unprecedented rates, more and more people are looking for peaceful, weekend retreats in mountain or rural communities. More often than not, these retreats are found in and around resorts or places of natural beauty. As a result, what once were small towns are fast becoming mini cities, complete with expensive housing, fast food, traffic snarls and environmental damage, all with little or no thought for the importance of local history, local people and local culture. The Weekender Effect is a passionate plea for considered development in these bedroom communities and for the necessary preservation of local values, cultures and landscapes.
Improved Earth
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Author : Rod Bantjes
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2005-01-01
Improved Earth written by Rod Bantjes 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 2005-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Improved Earth is a history of the making of 'abstract spaces of modernity' in the setting of the Canadian prairies, particularly rural Saskatchewan, from 1869 to 1944. Rod Bantjes demonstrates how three interrelated projectsstate formation, agrarian class formation, and the transformation of the environmentwere conceived in spatial terms and employed competing visions of spatial possibility. Bantjes proposes that the prairies be thought of as a site of modernity, and makes a case for viewing prairie farmers as 'modernists' who not only embraced, but took an active role in the making of modernity. Indeed, many of the questions that excited the imaginations of prairie politicians and reformers are alive today: the ecological and social value of 'localization' in agricultural production; the potentials for 'community' maintained and linked by transportation and communications technologies; and the possibilities of democratic decentralization within large translocal networks. The first systematic treatment of the spatial dimensions of the colonization of the prairie west, Improved Earth is a unique and thorough study certain to provoke new debates about the way space and time are imagined.
The Railway King Of Canada
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Author : R. B. Fleming
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2007-10-01
The Railway King Of Canada written by R. B. Fleming and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
During the first two decades of this century, Sir William Mackenzie was one of Canada’s best known entrepreneurs. He spearheaded some of the largest and most technologically advanced projects undertaken in Canada during his lifetime – building enterprises that became the foundations for such major institutions as Canadian National Railways, Brascan, and the Toronto Transit Commission. He built a business empire that stretched from Montreal to British Columbia and to Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in Brazil. It included gas, electric, telephone and transit utilities, railroads, hotels, and steamships as well as substantial coal mining, whaling, and timber interests. For a time Mackenzie also owned Canada's largest newspaper, La Presse. He accumulated an enormous personal fortune, but when he died in 1923, his estate was virtually bankrupt as a result of the dramatic collapse of his Canadian Northern Railway during the First World War. In an era when the entrepreneur has come to be seen as a media hero and when struggles about the role of state enterprise in the transportation and energy sectors consume public policy debate, it is ironic that Mackenzie is largely forgotten by all but a few historians and railway aficionados. He left no papers to guide biographers. After a decade of gathering and piecing together fragments from an immense array of sources, Rae Fleming has written the first biography of the man that the German press extolled as the “Railway King of Canada.” Mackenzie was wily, crafty, manipulative, and intimidating. Starting as a general contractor in Eldon Township in rural Ontario, he built a small fortune contracting for the CPR in the Selkirks in the 1880s and then moved on to bigger things. Along the way, he funded the first full-length documentary movie, was toasted by the House of Lords, received a knighthood from George V, and developed close friendships with the major politicians of his day, including Borden and Meighen. In a business biography intended as much for general readers as for a scholarly audience, Fleming offers a revisionist perspective on Mackenzie. He dispels the simplistic approach of those historians and journalists who have depicted Mackenzie and his partner Sir Donald Mann as melodramatic crooks who could have stepped out of the pages of Huckleberry Finn.
Cloud Capped Towers
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Author : Alex MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Release Date : 2007
Cloud Capped Towers written by Alex MacDonald and has been published by University of Regina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Communities categories.
Places Of Last Resort
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Author : J. David Wood
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2014-06-22
Places Of Last Resort written by J. David Wood and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-22 with History categories.
Northerly locations were desperately sought out after more accessible land further south was taken up. Wood identifies the demographic characteristics of the surging population of land-seekers, showing how some aspects echoed those of earlier settlers. The northern settlers of the interwar years grappled with demanding conditions, which required new adaptations. They were supported in their efforts by politicians, bureaucrats, and religious leaders who had less than innocent reasons for endorsing what were questionable settlement experiments in unopened or abandoned areas. The book includes a series of gripping case studies to illustrate both the face of failure and what appear to have been the ingredients for success in marginal areas.
Architecture Town Planning And Community
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Author : Cecil Scott Burgess
language : en
Publisher: University of Alberta
Release Date : 2005
Architecture Town Planning And Community written by Cecil Scott Burgess and has been published by University of Alberta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Architecture categories.
Cecil Burgess was professor of architecture and resident architect at the University of Alberta between 1913 and 1940. This title collects Burgess' public talks and writings offering a fresh insight into the social and intellectual dimensions of architecture and town planning during the first half of the twentieth century.