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Weird Canadian Places
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Author : Dan de Figueiredo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-05-05
Weird Canadian Places written by Dan de Figueiredo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-05 with Games & Activities categories.
The Canadian landscape is home to some pretty odd sights; for example, the UFO landing pad in St. Paul, Alberta, the ice hotel in Québec City or Casa Loma, Canada's only castle. This book humorously inventories many real estate oddities found across the country. Welcome to the True North strange to see.
Weird But True Canada
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Author : Chelsea Lin
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2018
Weird But True Canada written by Chelsea Lin and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Canada categories.
Collects three hundred facts about Canada's wildlife, cuisine, history, sports, and culture.
The Spaces And Places Of Canadian Popular Culture
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Author : Victoria Kannen
language : en
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
Release Date : 2019-08-28
The Spaces And Places Of Canadian Popular Culture written by Victoria Kannen and has been published by Canadian Scholars’ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An exclusively Canadian textbook, this collection investigates the relationships between identity, geography, and popular culture that are produced and consumed in this sprawling country. Expanding beyond the clichés of friendliness and snow, this text provides a fresh perspective on what it means to be Canadian, both nationally and transnationally. Scholars look at historical subjects like Québécois identity and Indigenous self-representation and explore issues in contemporary media, including music, film, television, comic books, video games, and social media. From Drake to the Tragically Hip, Trailer Park Boys to The Amazing Race Canada, and poutine to maple syrup, mainstream icons and trends are studied in the interdisciplinary context of race, gender, sexuality, politics, and patriotism. Contributing to the location of Canadian popular culture, this unique resource will engage students and scholars of communication studies, cultural studies, and Canadian studies. FEATURES - Includes key concepts and theories and a glossary - Engages students with relatable historical and contemporary examples of Canadiana through a breadth of media, including television shows, websites, journals, celebrities, newspapers, literature, comic books, video games, music, and films - Ensures equal representation of a national and transnational Canada, which includes examples of race, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity, with particular attention to geographical intricacies that contain all provinces and territories
Weird Canadian Laws
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Author : Lisa Wojna
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Weird Canadian Laws written by Lisa Wojna and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Electronic books categories.
If you can imagine it, somewhere there's probably a law against it. Laugh out loud over some of Canada's strangest laws -- but not too loudly, or you might get a ticket: * Until 2002 in BC, you couldn't stand up while having a drink in a restaurant * In Halifax, cabbies are required to wear socks * You're not allowed to dogsled on the sidewalks in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario * In Ponoka, Alberta, don?t build a mud hut or a house with a straw roof * Don't let your Canadian flag snap in the wind in Collingwood, Ontario * Coloured margarine is illegal in Quebec * Don't leave a trail of nails, tacks or glass behind you when you walk down the streets of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan * Clear sodas are not allowed to contain caffeine in Canada. * Plus more outdated, outmoded or just plain outlandish laws from throughout Canada.
Bizarre Canada
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Author : Joanna Emery
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Bizarre Canada written by Joanna Emery and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Canada categories.
The tendency to consider Canadians a bland people who delight only in the ordinary and orthodox couldn't be further from the truth. Canada is rife with the weird, wacky and off-the-wall from sea to shining sea--Pumpkin Festivals in Nova Scotia, a giant dino turd in Sadkatchewan, an official mace made from plumbing parts in the Alberta legislature and so much more!
Weird Ontario Places
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Author : Dan De Figueiredo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Weird Ontario Places written by Dan De Figueiredo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Ontario categories.
Canada's most populous province may also boast some of the weirdest places in the country. This enjoyable collection features hundreds of odd locales and structures, from a Cold War relic called the Diefenbunker to the world's largest curling stone to the home of famous white squirrels.
Weird Places In Saskatchewan And Manitoba
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Author : Glenda MacFarlane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-08-24
Weird Places In Saskatchewan And Manitoba written by Glenda MacFarlane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-24 with Manitoba categories.
The prairie landscapes of Saskatchewan and Manitoba are often overlooked by tourists, but both provinces are more than just wheat fields and haystacks--from the supernatural to the super big, they have some of the most peculiar places in the country:- The Athabasca Sand Dunes in northwest Saskatchewan stretch for about 100 km along the shore of Lake Athabasca; in this region are over 10 species of plants that grow nowhere else in the world- The town of Gladstone, Manitoba, is a happy, happy place, and townsfolk even proved it by erecting and painting the town's roadside mascot--Happy Rock- Saskatchewan has many places named after body parts(Knee Lake, Eyebrow, Moose Jaw (or the Jaw as it's known locally), Arm River, Head Lake, Skull Creek, Elbow and Bone Creek- Lake Manitou in Saskatchewan is three times saltier than the Dead Sea, and its waters are said to have healing powers- The eskers, S-shaped formations of gravel and sand around Lynn Lake in Manitoba, were sculpted thousands of years ago by retreating glaciers Huge as Lakes Winnipeg and Manitoba might be, they're really considered a shrunken lake the remains of prehistoric Lake Agassiz, originally larger than all five Great Lakes combined The tunnels underneath the streets of Moose Jaw were used by rumrunners smuggling liquor during Prohibition- The many giant roadside attractions in Saskatchewan include Wally the Woolly Mammoth, a baseball cap, Ralph the Grasshopper, a coffee pot and cup, even hockey cards, while over in Manitoba you will find a giant easel depicting van Gogh's sunflowers, a cookie jar, a giant tricycle and Tommy the Turtle.And so much more
Weird Canadian Words
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Author : Edrick Thay
language : en
Publisher:
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Weird Canadian Words written by Edrick Thay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Electronic books categories.
Anorak, butter tart, ballicatter, kayak, stubby, toonie--these are familiar Canadian words. But where did they come from? What quirks of language and fate have made them truly Canadian? Even though we speak the same language as the Yanks and the Brits, Canadians have a unique dialect that is recognized around the world, and each province has its own eccentricities. Edrick Thay presents well-known and obscure Canadianisms in this often-humorous glossary of words from across the country: ? all-Canadian words--Canuck, hockey, loonie, Medicare, tuque and the ubiquitous eh ? Qu?b?cois words--tourti?re, cretons, shivaree and Bombardier ? words from Ontario--BeaverTails, reeve, Wonderbra and zipper ? West Coast terms--potlatch, hooch, Nanaimo bar and skookum ? words of the sea-faring Atlantic provinces--screech, ballicatter, slob ice and blue nose ? aboriginal words--skookum, potlatch, chinook and high muckamuck ? western Canadianisms--canola, Bloody Caesar, bunnyhug, M?tis and stubble jumper ? and words of the North--inuksuk, Klondike, mukluk, pingo and toboggan.
Canadian Primal
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Author : Mark Dickinson
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2021-02-18
Canadian Primal written by Mark Dickinson 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 2021-02-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Over the past few decades, a group of writers we might call the Thinking and Singing poets have stood at the forefront of poetry in Canada. These five poets – Dennis Lee, Don McKay, Robert Bringhurst, Jan Zwicky, and Tim Lilburn – are major voices in an era of ecological devastation and spiritual unease. Their diverse, questioning work suggests new ways to confront some of the most pressing issues of our time. In vibrant prose, Mark Dickinson explores the relationship between the lives of these poets and their writing, examining their intersecting careers and friendships, and the ways they learned from and challenged one another. Canadian Primal uses an unconventional approach, blending biography with literary analysis and drawing from meetings and correspondence with each poet over many years to trace the people and events that inspired the creation of important texts. Dickinson tracks how each of the writers arrived at poetry as a way of being, and at the heart of their poetics he finds both a musical intelligence and the crucial importance of the land. Canadian Primal is literary biography reconceived as an adventure of the mind, body, and spirit. Ebullient, intelligent, and eminently readable, it reminds us that we can live on the earth in a different way, true to the defining experiences of our lives, surrounded by meaning and presence beyond our imagining.
Unruly Places
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Author : Alastair Bonnett
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2014
Unruly Places written by Alastair Bonnett and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
Alastair Bonnett explores extraordinary, off-grid, offbeat places including micro-nations, moving villages, secret cities, and no man's lands. Consider Sealand, an abandoned gun platform off the English coast that a British citizen claimed as his own sovereign nation, issuing passports and making his wife a princess. Or Baarle, a patchwork city of Dutch and Flemish enclaves where crossing the street can involve traversing national borders. Or Sandy Island, which appeared on maps well into 2012 despite the fact it never existed.