Three Northern Wartime Projects
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Three Northern Wartime Projects
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Author : Bob Hesketh
language : en
Publisher: Canadian Circumpolar Institute
Release Date : 1996
Three Northern Wartime Projects written by Bob Hesketh and has been published by Canadian Circumpolar Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
Describes three northern projects of WWII and the wartime environment that produced them. It reflects the inter-relatedness of the projects, while placing them within international, national, provincial, and local contexts. It also looks at the effects of the projects on Alberta, especially specific northern communities. Papers by: Greg Johnson; Daniel Haulman; Elizabeth Brebner; Bob Hesketh; Kenneth Tingley; Harold L. Morrison; Christopher Hackett; Lael Morgan; Cyril Griffith; Patricia McCormack; Bob Irwin; and Les Faulkner.
The Northern Horizons Of Guy Blanchet
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Author : Gwyneth Hoyle
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2007-10-31
The Northern Horizons Of Guy Blanchet written by Gwyneth Hoyle and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Guy Blanchet mapped large areas of the Barrens by canoe and soon became caught up in pioneer northern aviation. He did not seek adventure, but it often found him.
Second Promised Land
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Author : Harry H. Hiller
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2009
Second Promised Land written by Harry H. Hiller 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 2009 with Business & Economics categories.
Explosive economic growth in resource-rich Alberta has led to a stunning increase in its population. In contrast to Ontario and British Columbia, which have grown primarily through international migration, Alberta has become a magnet for internal migrants, contributing to population redistribution within Canada, with significant national social and economic consequences. Combining statistical analysis and ethnographic study, Harry Hiller uncovers two waves of in-migration to Alberta. His innovative approach begins with the individual migrant and analyzes the relocation experience from origin to destination. Through interviews with hundreds of migrants, Hiller shows that migration is complex and dynamic, shaped not just by what Alberta offers but also prompted by a process that begins in the region of origin that makes migration possible and helps determine whether migrants stay or return home. By combining a social psychological approach with structural factors such as Alberta's transition from a regional hinterland province to its emerging role the global system, discussions of gender, The internet, and folk culture, Second Promised Land provides a multi-dimensional and deeply human account of a contemporary Canadian phenomenon.
Many Norths
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Author : Lola Sheppard
language : en
Publisher: Actar D, Inc.
Release Date : 2021-07-13
Many Norths written by Lola Sheppard and has been published by Actar D, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-13 with Architecture categories.
“There are many norths in this North.” – Louis-Edmond Hamelin, 1975 Many Norths: Spatial Practice in a Polar Territory charts the unique spatial realities of Canada’s Arctic region, an immense territory populated with small, dispersed communities. The region has undergone dramatic transformations in the name of sovereignty, aboriginal affairs management, resources, and trade, among others. For most of the Arctic’s modern history, architecture, infrastructure, and settlements have been the tools of colonialism. Today, tradition and modernity are intertwined. Northerners have demonstrated remarkable adaptation and resilience as powerful climatic, social, and economic pressures collide. This unprecedented book documents—through the themes of urbanism, architecture, mobility, monitoring, and resources—the multiplicity of norths that appear and the spatial practices employed to negotiate it. Using innovative drawings, maps, timelines, as well as essays and interviews, Many Norths reveals a distinct northern vernacular.
Avoiding Armageddon
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Author : Andrew Richter
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-11-01
Avoiding Armageddon written by Andrew Richter and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with History categories.
Drawing on previously classified government records, Richter reveals that Canadian defence officials independently came to strategic understandings of the most critical issues of the nuclear age regarding the use of force in resolving disputes. Canadian appreciation of deterrence, arms control, and strategic stability differed conceptually from the US models. Similarly, Canadian thinking on the controversial issues of air defence and the domestic acquisition of nuclear weapons was primarily influenced by decidedly Canadian interests. This book illustrates Canada's considerable latitude for independent defence thinking while providing key historical information that helps make sense of the contemporary Canadian defence debate.
Polar Winds
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Author : Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2014-09-10
Polar Winds written by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-10 with Transportation categories.
Polar Winds traces a century of northern flight from balloonatics to bush pilots and beyond. "They were all gamblers and fortune seekers. They did things on their own — were independent people who wanted to be free to roam. They were good people, but, of course, some were loners or escapists. They all depended strictly on their wits." Joe McBryan, pilot and owner of Yellowknife-based Buffalo Airways, was talking about gold prospectors in the 1940s when he said this, but he could just as easily have been describing the aviators who have flown northern skies for over a hundred years. They were adventurers and pioneers, but also just men and women doing what was required to make a living north of the sixtieth parallel. Polar Winds uses the stories of these pilots and others to explore the greater history of air travel in the North, from the Klondike Gold Rush through to the end of the twentieth century. It encompasses everything from exploration flights to the North Pole in airships to passenger travel in jet liners; flying school buses for residential schools to indigenous pilots performing mercy flights; and from the harrowing crashes to the routine supply runs that make up daily life in the North. Above all, it is a unique history told through the experiences of northerners on the ground and in the sky.
The Black Soldiers Who Built The Alaska Highway
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Author : John Virtue
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2012-12-11
The Black Soldiers Who Built The Alaska Highway written by John Virtue and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-11 with History categories.
This is the first detailed account of the 5,000 black troops who were reluctantly sent north by the United States Army during World War II to help build the Alaska Highway and install the companion Canol pipeline. Theirs were the first black regiments deployed outside the lower 48 states during the war. The enlisted men, most of them from the South, faced racial discrimination from white officers, were barred from entering any towns for fear they would procreate a "mongrel" race with local women, and endured winter conditions they had never experienced before. Despite this, they won praise for their dedication and their work. Congress in 2005 said that the wartime service of the four regiments covered here contributed to the eventual desegregation of the Armed Forces.
Arctic Front
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Author : Ken S. Coates
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn.com
Release Date : 2010-09-11
Arctic Front written by Ken S. Coates and has been published by Dundurn.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-11 with History categories.
A hard-hitting, timely, and provocative book about the history and future of the Canadian Arctic. With passion and sharp words, Arctic Front confronts Canada’s longstanding neglect of the Far North and outline what needs to be done to protect our national interest. Through a lively and engaging history of the region, Arctic Front reveals how Canadians and their governments have: ignored this region for generations expanded Canadian sovereignty over the past hundred years by reacting to other countries’ challenges become the least effective of all Circumpolar nations in responding to the needs of the Arctic neglected our obligations to the North, including a failure to capitalize on the human and economic resources of this vast land or to establish a presence that would make any foreign claims to offshore resources inconceivable. As global warming continues to melt the ice in the Northwest Passage and the competition for northern resources heats up, Canada, the authors warn, will be forced to defend this area from a position of grave weakness. Our leaders need to take action today, blending defence and development, to complete Canadian nation building in this fragile region. An energetic and engaging collaboration by four of Canada’s leading Northern specialists, Arctic Front is a clarion call to all Canadians about our endangered Arctic region, challenging the country to step away from the symbols and myth making of the past and toward the urgent political, environmental and economic realities of the 21st century.
Dominion Of Race
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Author : Laura Madokoro
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2017-06-09
Dominion Of Race written by Laura Madokoro and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-09 with History categories.
How has race shaped Canada’s international encounters and its role in the world? How have the actions of politicians, diplomats, citizens, and nongovernmental organizations reflected and reinforced racial power structures in Canada? In this book, leading scholars grapple with these complex questions, destabilizing conventional understandings of Canada in the world. Dominion of Race exposes how race-thinking has informed priorities and policies, positioned Canada in the international community, and contributed to a global order rooted in racial beliefs. While the contributors reconsider familiar topics, including the Paris Peace Conference and Canada’s involvement with the United Nations, they enlarge the scope of Canada’s international history by subject, geography, and methodology. By demonstrating that race is a fundamental component of Canada and its international history, this important book calls for reengagement with the histories of those marginalized in, or excluded from, the historical record.
The Second World War
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Author : Antony Beevor
language : en
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Release Date : 2012-06-05
The Second World War written by Antony Beevor and has been published by Back Bay Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-05 with History categories.
A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the twentieth century, the Second World War. In this searing narrative that takes us from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 to V-J day on August 14, 1945 and the war's aftermath, Beevor describes the conflict and its global reach -- one that included every major power. The result is a dramatic and breathtaking single-volume history that provides a remarkably intimate account of the war that, more than any other, still commands attention and an audience. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history, and confirms once more that he is a military historian of the first rank.