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History, Literature And The Writing Of The Canadian Prairies

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 The Canadian Prairie has long been represented as a timeless and unchanging location, defined by settlement and landscape. This collection of ten essays explores a more contemporary prairie identity, and reconfigures "the prairie" as a construct that is non-linear and diverse, responding to the impact of geographical, historical, and political currents.
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One Man'S Documentary - A Memoir Of The Early Years Of The National Film Board

de Graham Mcinnes

37,28€

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Rural Life - Portraits Of The Prairie Town, 1946

de James P. Giffen

29,55€

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Western Icelandic Short Stories

25,69€

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 Presents a wide collection of first and second generation Icelandic-Canadian authors. The stories, first published between 1895 and 1930, are set mainly in North America (especially Manitoba). They reflect a wealth of literary activity, from the numerous Western Icelandic newspapers and journals, to the reading circles and cultural and literary societies that supported them.
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Intimate Strangers - The Letters Of Margaret Laurence And Gabrielle Roy

de Gabrielle Roy e Margaret Laurence

25,69€

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A Very Remarkable Sickness - Epidemics In The Petit Nord, 1670 To 1846

de Paul Hackett

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 Historical geographer Paul Hackett meticulously traces the diffusion of diseases from Europe through central Canada to the West. Hackett's study yields a comprehensive picture of where, when, and how the staggering impact of epidemics was felt.
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Night Spirits - The Story Of The Relocation Of The Sayisi Dene

de Ila Bussidor e Ustun Bilgen-Reinart

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 In 1956, an arbitrary government decision relocated the Sayisi Dene and catapulted them into the 20th century. In Night Spirits, survivors, including those who were children at the time of the move, as well as the few remaining elders, recount their stories, offering a stark and brutally honest account of the near-destruction.
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Formidable Heritage - Manitoba'S North And The Cost Of Development

de Jim Mochoruk

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 One of the first parts of the Canada's north to be aggressively industrialized was northern Manitoba. Jim Mochoruk shows how government and business worked together to transform what had been the exclusive fur-trading preserve of the Hudsons Bay Company into an industrial hinterland.
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Reporting The Resistance - Alexander Begg And Joseph Hargrave On The Red River Resistance

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 "Reporting the Resistance "brings together two first-person accounts to give a view 'from the ground' of the developments that shocked Canada and created the province of Manitoba.
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Providence Watching - Journeys From Wartorn Poland To The Canadian Prairies

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Writing Grief - Margaret Laurence And The Work Of Mourning

de Christian Riegel

29,55€

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One Version Of The Facts - My Life In The Ivory Tower

de Henry E. Duckworth

29,55€

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 In his engaging memoirs, One Version of the Facts, Dr. Henry Duckworth takes readers from his student days in Winnipeg and Chicago in the 1930s to his time as president of the University of Winnipeg (1971-1981), and chancellor of the University of Manitoba.
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Making Ends Meet - Farm Women'S Work In Manitoba

de Charlotte Van De Vorst

21,83€

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 Based on hundreds of interviews with Manitoba farm men and women, Making Ends Meet reconstructs the common history shared by modern farm women as well as by their mothers and grandmothers. It explores women's changing roles on the farm, from the early days of the Red River settlement to the twentieth-century farm community.
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Mac Runciman - A Life In The Grain Trade

de Paul D. Earl

32,13€

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A Thousand Miles Of Prairie - The Manitoba Historical Society And The History Of Western Canada

29,55€

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 Provides a fascinating look at Manitoba's early boom years (1880-1910) through the eyes and words of some of the most interesting personalities of early Winnipeg. This collection brings together 14 pieces from the first decades of the Manitoba Historical Society, when its lectures were attended by the provinces political and cultural elite.
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From The Inside Out - The Rural Worlds Of Mennonite Diarists

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 Historian Royden Loewen has brought together selections from diaries kept by 21 Mennonites in Canada between 1863 and 1929, some translated from German for the first time. By skilfully comparing and contrasting a wide cross-section of lives, Loewen shows how these diaries often turn the hidden contours of household and community "inside out".
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Dictionary Of Manitoba Biography

de J. M. Bumsted

37,28€

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 Until now, there has been no comprehensive, contemporary source for information on the many Manitobans who have left their mark on history and society. Dictionary of Manitoba Biography fills this gap, with biographical sketches of over 1700 Manitobans who have made an impact in politics, the arts, sports, commerce, agriculture, and society.
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Manitoba Medicine - A Brief History

de Ian Carr e Robert E. Beamish

35,99€

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 For many Canadians, the state of the health care and medical system is at the top of the public agenda. By following the growth and development of modern medicine in one Canadian province, Manitoba Medicine provides an insight into where Canada's present medical system came from and how it developed.
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A Very Remarkable Sickness - Epidemics In The Petit Nord, 1670 To 1846

de Paul Hackett

37,28€

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 Although new diseases had first arrived in the New World in the 16th century, by the end of the 17th century shorter transoceanic travel time meant that a far greater number of diseases survived the journey from Europe and were still able to infect new communities. Historical geographer Paul Hackett meticulously traces the diffusion of these diseases from Europe through central Canada to the West.
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Preserving The Sacred - Historical Perspectives On The Ojibwa Midewiwin

de Michael Angel

37,28€

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 Historian Michael Angel compares the early texts written about the Midewiwin, and identifies major, common misconceptions in these accounts. In his explanation of the historical role played by the Midewiwin, he provides alternative viewpoints and explanations of the significance of the ceremonies, while respecting the sacred and symbolic nature of the Midewiwin rituals, songs, and scrolls.
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Making It Home - Place In Canadian Literature

de Deborah Keahey

25,69€

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 Traditional approaches to Prairie literature have focussed on the significance of "the land" in attempts to make a place into a home. Deborah Keahey considers over 70 years of Canadian Prairie literature, including poetry, autobiography, drama, and fiction. The 17 writers range from the established, like Martha Ostenso and Robert Kroetsch, to newer writers, like Ian Ross and Kelly Rebar.
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Hidden Worlds - Revisiting The Mennonite Migrants Of The 1870s

de Royden Loewen

29,55€

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 Through an analysis of diaries, wills, newspaper articles, census and tax records, and other literature, an examination of inheritance practices, household dynamics, and gender relations, and a comparison of several Mennonite communities in the United States and Canada, Royden Loewen uncovers the multi-dimensional and highly resourceful character of the 1870s migrants.
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The University Of Manitoba - An Illustrated History

de J. M. Bumsted

51,44€

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 Established in 1877, just seven years after the founding of the province itself, the University of Manitoba has grown to become an international centre of research and study. Historian J.M. Bumsted looks at how the university was forged out of the assembly of several, small, denominational colleges, and how it survived and thrived.
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Muskekowuck Athinuwick - Original People Of The Great Swampy Land

de Victor P. Lytwyn

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 The original people of the Hudson Bay lowlands were among the first Aboriginal peoples in northwestern North America to come into contact with Europeans. This book challenges long-held misconceptions about the Lowland Cree, and illustrates how historians have often misunderstood the role and resourcefulness of Aboriginal peoples during the fur-trade era.
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