The Man Who Saved Vancouver
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The Man Who Saved Vancouver
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Author : Daphne Sleigh
language : en
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
Release Date : 2008
The Man Who Saved Vancouver written by Daphne Sleigh and has been published by Heritage House Publishing Co this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"This book is a biography of controversial archivist Major James Skitt Matthews, whose dedication, dogged persistence and guerrilla tactics were instrumental in preserving the history of Vancouver, British Columbia." "Sleigh's portrait of the Major covers his unique background and the unusual experiences that shaped the man and set the stage for a remarkable future."--BOOK JACKET.
Nothing To Write Home About
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Author : Laura Ishiguro
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2019-05-01
Nothing To Write Home About written by Laura Ishiguro and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-01 with History categories.
Nothing to Write Home About uncovers the significance of British family correspondence sent between the United Kingdom and British Columbia between 1858 and 1914. Drawing on thousands of letters, Laura Ishiguro offers insights into epistolary topics including familial intimacy and conflict, everyday concerns such as boredom and food, and what correspondents chose not to write. She shows that Britons used the post to navigate family separations and understand British Columbia as an uncontested settler home. These letters and their writers played a critical role in laying the foundations of a powerful settler order that continues to structure the province today.
Towards A New Ethnohistory
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Author : Keith Thor Carlson
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Release Date : 2018-04-20
Towards A New Ethnohistory written by Keith Thor Carlson and has been published by Univ. of Manitoba Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-20 with Social Science categories.
"Towards a New Ethnohistory" engages respectfully in cross-cultural dialogue and interdisciplinary methods to co-create with Indigenous people a new, decolonized ethnohistory. This new ethnohistory reflects Indigenous ways of knowing and is a direct response to critiques of scholars who have for too long foisted their own research agendas onto Indigenous communities. Community-engaged scholarship invites members of the Indigenous community themselves to identify the research questions, host the researchers while they conduct the research, and participate meaningfully in the analysis of the researchers’ findings. The historical research topics chosen by the Stó:lō community leaders and knowledge keepers for the contributors to this collection range from the intimate and personal, to the broad and collective. But what principally distinguishes the analyses is the way settler colonialism is positioned as something that unfolds in sometimes unexpected ways within Stó:lō history, as opposed to the other way around. This collection presents the best work to come out of the world’s only graduate-level humanities-based ethnohistory field school. The blending of methodologies and approaches from the humanities and social sciences is a model of twenty-first century interdisciplinarity.
Against The Current And Into The Light
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Author : Selena Couture
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2020-01-09
Against The Current And Into The Light written by Selena Couture 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 2020-01-09 with Social Science categories.
Performance embodies knowledge transfer, cultural expression, and intercultural influence. It is a method through which Indigenous people express their relations to land and continuously establish their persistent political authority. But performance is also key to the misrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in settler colonial societies. Against the Current and Into the Light challenges dominant historical narratives of the land now known as Stanley Park, exploring performances in this space from the late nineteenth century to the present. Selena Couture engages with knowledge held in an endangered Indigenous language's place names, methods of orientation in space and time, and conceptions of leadership and respectful visiting. She then critically engages with narratives of Vancouver history created by the city's first archivist, J.S. Matthews, through his interest in Lord Stanley's visit to the park in 1889. Matthews organized several public commemorative performances on this land from the 1940s to 1960, resulting in the iconic yet misleading statue of Lord Stanley situated at the park's entrance. Couture places Matthews's efforts at commemoration alongside continuous political interventions by Indigenous people and organizations such as the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia, while also responding to contemporary performances by Indigenous women in Vancouver that present alternative views of history. Using the metaphor of eddies of influence - motions that shape and are shaped by obstacles in their temporal and spatial environments - Against the Current and Into the Light reveals how histories of places have been created, and how they might be understood differently in light of Indigenous resurgence and decolonization.
Analogia
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Author : George Dyson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2020-08-18
Analogia written by George Dyson and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-18 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 How did we end up in a world where humans coexist with technologies we can no longer fully control or understand? George Dyson plots an unexpected course through the past 300 years to reveal the hidden connections that underpin our digital age, ending with a premonition of what lies ahead. From an eighteenth-century Russian voyage across the North Pacific, to the mirror signals that heralded the age of digital telecommunications and the invention of the vacuum tube, Analogia interweaves historical adventure with scientific insight in a deeply personal story that frames the pursuit - and cost - of the digital revolution in a captivating new light.
Last Man Standing
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Author : Thomas Glen Lockhart
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2012-11
Last Man Standing written by Thomas Glen Lockhart and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11 with Education categories.
A Canadian platoon embarked under the cover of darkness in late October 1944 near Cesna Italy assigned with a tank hunting mission. Their goal was to help Allied forces establish a bridgehead to build a critical crossing across the Savio River. Ongoing heavy fire from German tanks required an elite group of Canadian soldiers with tank killing experience to break the German advance and in less than one hour, one man changed Canadian history forever. This is a story which outlines the heroic military victory in the Battle of Italy, 1943-45 and the extraordinary valour of Private Ernest "Smokey" Smith who single-handedly destroyed multiple German Panzer tanks with projectile infantry anti-tank guns and protected a wounded comrade with a sub-machine gun from opposition forces. Born in New Westminster, BC Ernest Smith grew up during Canada's depression of the 1930s. Like many young men at the time, Smith "rode the rails" is search of employment where he eventually volunteered and enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force to fight in the new war of 1939. Smokey was an exemplary soldier whose bravery ultimately resulted in him becoming Canada's last surviving recipient of the Victoria Cross.
Matterhorn
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Author : Karl Marlantes
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2010-04-01
Matterhorn written by Karl Marlantes and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with Fiction categories.
Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and James Jones’s The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese but also monsoon rain and mud, leeches and tigers, disease and malnutrition. Almost as daunting, it turns out, are the obstacles they discover between each other: racial tension, competing ambitions, and duplicitous superior officers. But when the company finds itself surrounded and outnumbered by a massive enemy regiment, the Marines are thrust into the raw and all-consuming terror of combat. The experience will change them forever. Written by a highly decorated Marine veteran over the course of thirty years, Matterhorn is a spellbinding and unforgettable novel that brings to life an entire world—both its horrors and its thrills—and seems destined to become a classic of combat literature.
Walter Moberly And The Northwest Passage By Rail
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Author : Daphne Sleigh
language : en
Publisher: Surrey, B.C. : Hancock House
Release Date : 2003
Walter Moberly And The Northwest Passage By Rail written by Daphne Sleigh and has been published by Surrey, B.C. : Hancock House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An unacknowledged explorer hero or a surveyor who was known to exaggerate the truth? On his death, one newspaper pronounced Walter Moberly second only to Captain Vancouver in the record of western Canadian exploration. Moberly would certainly have agreed with this eulogy, for he saw himself as the true discoverer of the Northwest Passage by land -- the all-Canadian route for the transcontinental railway. From childhood, stories of this passage had filled his imagination, and when he journeyed from Ontario to British Columbia in 1858, it was with the express purpose of exploring for this route -- but by land, not sea. And Moberly succeeded. He discovered a route through the Monashee Mountains via Eagle Pass (his best-known achievement); he fought his way through the supposedly impregnable Selkirks in the dead of winter; he explored and surveyed one of the major passes in the Rockies. These discoveries vanquished the last obstacles that stood between the Pacific Coast and the Prairies and opened the way for the future railway. Moberly's story is told from a personal and sympathetic angle, but does not overlook his character flaws that withheld any material success in life. Difficult and hot-headed, he quarrelled with those in authority. He could not manage money, and was always in debt. This book offers a critical appraisal of the man and his accomplishments. Containing never-before-published information about Moberly's personal life, which was indeed colourful, the book will certainly interest readers of exploration history and biography.
City Making In Paradise
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Author : Ken Cameron
language : en
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Release Date : 2009-12-01
City Making In Paradise written by Ken Cameron and has been published by D & M Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-01 with Architecture categories.
Time and again, Vancouver is recognized internationally as one of the best places to live. It achieved that reputation by breaking rules and forging its own brand of North American urbanism. City Making in Paradise details the nine most important decisions made in the Greater Vancouver region since the 1940s. Authors Mike Harcourt and Ken Cameron, themselves key players in several of these developments, reveal the political machinations, the ideological struggles and the personal commitment that lay behind each one. By tracing today’s successes back to their roots, they illustrate their central theme; that cities are the result of the daily choices we make as leaders, activists and citizens.
British Columbia And Vancouver S Island
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Author : Duncan George Forbes Macdonald
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1863
British Columbia And Vancouver S Island written by Duncan George Forbes Macdonald and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1863 with British Columbia categories.