The Museum Called Canada
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The Museum Called Canada
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Author : Charlotte Gray
language : en
Publisher: Random House Canada
Release Date : 2004
The Museum Called Canada written by Charlotte Gray and has been published by Random House Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Canada categories.
Hold our history in your hands, with a spectacular virtual museum that is at once a sweeping exploration of Canadian history and culture, an indispensable reference guide and a remarkable treasury of information. Welcome to a museum so vast and full of wonder that it could only be called Canada. Each of The Museum Called Canada's 25 rooms houses carefully chosen exhibits that illuminate a significant historical theme. This majestic collection brings together high art and popular culture, science and nature, rare objects and whimsical ephemera. Here you will see the empty eye sockets of Tyrannosaurus Rex and be able to examine intricate and ethereal wood-carved angels built for Quebec's Rideau Chapel. Exhibits span the breadth of our nation, from the Yuquot Whaler's Shrine of Vancouver Island's Nootka to an anti-Confederation poster from the controversially soon-to-be-province Newfoundland. Your guide to the collection is historian and author Charlotte Gray. For each room in the museum, Gray has written a short essay that delves into the world of a particularly evocative artifact and its importance in the context of the room's theme and time period. The Museum Called Canada -- with its expansive vision, its surprising juxtapositions, its visual feasts and intellectual explorations -- is a beautiful and inspiring place that you will want to visit again and again.
Mus E Et Le Public Canadien
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Author : Brian Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Published for Arts and Culture Branch, Department of the Secretary of State, Government of Canada by Culturcan Publications
Release Date : 1974
Mus E Et Le Public Canadien written by Brian Dixon and has been published by Published for Arts and Culture Branch, Department of the Secretary of State, Government of Canada by Culturcan Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Canada categories.
A Museum For Canadians
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Author : National Museum of Canada
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961*
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The Promise Of Canada
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Author : Charlotte Gray
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 2016-10-18
The Promise Of Canada written by Charlotte Gray and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-18 with History categories.
What does it mean to be a Canadian? What great ideas have changed our country? An award-winning writer casts her eye over 150 years of Canadian history. “Our country owes its success not to some imagined tribal singularity but to the fact that, although its thirty-five million citizens do not look, speak or pray alike, we have learned to share this land and for the most part live in neighbourly sympathy.” —Charlotte Gray, from the Preface of The Promise of Canada On the eve of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations comes a richly rewarding new book from acclaimed historian Charlotte Gray about what it means to be Canadian. Readers already know Gray as an award-winning biographer, a writer who has brilliantly captured significant individuals and dramatic moments in our history. Now, in The Promise of Canada, she weaves together masterful portraits of nine influential Canadians, creating a unique history of the country over the past 150 years. What do these people—from George-Étienne Cartier and Emily Carr to Tommy Douglas, Margaret Atwood, and Elijah Harper—have in common? Each, according to Charlotte Gray, has left an indelible mark on our country. Deliberately avoiding a “top down” approach to our history, Gray has chosen people whose ideas have caught her imagination, ideas that over time have become part of our collective conversation. She also highlights many other Canadians, past and present, who have added to the ongoing debate over how we see ourselves, arguing that Canada has constantly reimagined itself in every generation since 1867. Beautifully illustrated with evocative black and white images and colourful artistic visions of our country, The Promise of Canada is a fresh take on our history that offers fascinating insights into how we have matured and yet how—150 years after Confederation and beyond—we are still a people in progress. Charlotte Gray makes history come alive as she opens doors into our past, our present and our future, inspiring and challenging readers to envision the Canada they want to live in.
Canada Day 2016 Preview
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Author : Charlotte Gray
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-06-08
Canada Day 2016 Preview written by Charlotte Gray and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-08 with History categories.
Celebrate Canada Day with this Preface to Charlotte Gray’s The Promise of Canada: 150 Years—People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country. “I knew it was time to engage Canadians in our past in a new way. I’ve always been fascinated by the gap between the modesty of my fellow citizens and the extraordinary success of this country. Every issue, every period, every region I explore, I find intriguing characters, painful tensions and surprising triumphs. Yet most of us know so little about the layers of history and ideas that make this country work. We have a unique and lively history, but too often it is told from only one perspective. Sometimes that perspective is political, other times it is regional, but it rarely captures the complexity of our sprawling land and diverse people. A big birthday, like Canada’s 150th, is the perfect time to bring both national heroes and unexpected guests to the table. I want their personal dramas and brilliant visions to bring a sparkle to the sesquicentennial.” —Charlotte Gray on The Promise of Canada, available October 2016 from Simon & Schuster Canada
The Museum Is Not Enough
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Author : Centre canadien d'architecture
language : en
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Release Date : 2019
The Museum Is Not Enough written by Centre canadien d'architecture and has been published by Sternberg Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Architectural museums categories.
The Museum Is Not Enough is the result of collective reflections on architecture, contemporary social concerns, institutions, and the public undertaken by the CCA in recent years. Building on years of thematic investigations and of a continued questioning of the role of cultural institutions and the issues they face today, the book puts forward the CCA's own positions and opens them up to a dialogue with designers, curators, photographers, publishers, and other institutions who ask themselves similar questions. This publication is conceived as the first volume of a yearly magazine, with which the CCA will explore urgent questions defining its curatorial activity. Topics addressed in this volume include the institution's engagement with the present, the significance of the archive as a site for the production of new ideas, display strategies in architecture exhibitions, the need for mediation in art, and the impact of the digital in current museum practices. Contributors Noura Al Sayeh, Greg Barton, Ruth Est�vez, Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen, Stefano Graziani, Dan Handel, Martin Huberman, Wilfred Kuehn, Kalle Lasn, Maria Lind, Kieran Long, Ligia Nobre, Mike Pepi, Damon Rich, Filippo Romano, Mika Savela, Bernd Scherer, Jack Self, Astria Suparak, Shirley Surya, Jes�s Vassallo, James Voorhies, and Mark Wigley Published by Sternberg Press and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)
National Museum Of Man Canada
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Author : National Museum of Man (Canada)
language : en
Publisher:
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Fascinating Canada
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Author : John Robert Colombo
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2011-05-27
Fascinating Canada written by John Robert Colombo and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-27 with Reference categories.
Few people have read as widely in the field of Canadiana as has John Robert Colombo. The curiosity of this Toronto writer, editor, and anthologist knows few if any bounds when it comes to the lore, literature, history, culture, and character of Canada. He has an inquiring mind and he seems able to find national and even international twists to subjects of interest or importance. Fascinating Canada, his latest book, is the product of over half a century of research, reading, writing, and thinking. Some years ago the author produced a trilogy of question-and-answer books 1,000 Questions about Canada, 999 Questions about Canada, 1,000 Questions about Canada. The first two were published by Doubleday Canada, the third one in 2001 by Dundurn Press. The same format is adapted to the material in the present book, but this time the majority of the questions are short whereas a good many of the answers are quite long discussions of the subjects at hand: concise questions followed by considered answers. Here is a book about the Canadian past, present, and future. The information in Fascinating Canada is organized under four headings (People, Places, Things, Ideas) and there is a detailed Index for ready reference. This book may serve as a work of popular reference, but it has been written to stimulate inquiry and spark the sense of surprise in the minds of readers who know something about this amazing country but perhaps not as much as the author. Open this book and begin to read ... and match wits with author and researcher John Robert Colombo.
The Museum Of Foreign Literature Science And Art
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Author : Robert Walsh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1838
The Museum Of Foreign Literature Science And Art written by Robert Walsh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1838 with American periodicals categories.
Museum Assistance Programmes
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Author : National Museums of Canada
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Museum Assistance Programmes written by National Museums of Canada and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with categories.