[PDF] Canadian Accomplishments eBook

Author : National Forest Strategy Coalition (Canada)
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,46 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN :

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Working together, the Canadian forest community has recorded a number of major achievements toward meeting the goal of sustainable forests. This report reviews key achievements in the National Forest Strategy's goal of sustainable forests. Activities by government, industry, academia, woodlot owners, environmental groups, and other organizations are reviewed in the following categories: forest ecosystems and multiple values; forest management; public participation; the forest industry; forest science & technology management; human resources; Aboriginal peoples; private woodlots; and international initiatives.

Author : Karen Flynn
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2011-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1442663634

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Moving Beyond Borders is the first book-length history of Black health care workers in Canada, delving into the experiences of thirty-five postwar-era nurses who were born in Canada or who immigrated from the Caribbean either through Britain or directly to Canada. Karen Flynn examines the shaping of these women's stories from their childhoods through to their roles as professionals and community activists. Flynn interweaves oral histories with archival sources to show how these women's lives were shaped by their experiences of migration, professional training, and family life. Theoretical analyses from postcolonial, gender, and diasporic Black Studies serve to highlight the multiple subjectivities operating within these women's lives. By presenting a collective biography of identity formation, Moving Beyond Borders reveals the extraordinary complexity of Black women's history.

Author : Jonathan Anuik
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0889772401

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Takes readers through one calendar year of Aboriginal history, providing visuals and details of past and contemporary achievements and challenges of First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples of Canada.

Author : Harry G. Johnson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 26,20 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780773529335

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Harry G. Johnson is best known as one of Canada's most respected economists, particularly for his research on international trade and finance and monetary policy. But Johnson was also a prolific and influential public intellectual. A sharp and popular polemicist, he wrote on a wide range of subjects, from advertising to affluence to foreign investment, and was published in Punch and The Spectator as well as all the leading economic journals. The Canadian Quandary is a collection of "unbuttoned" pieces written in Johnson's witty and acerbic style between 1958 and 1963. Focusing on Canadian policy on trade and foreign policy, the volume includes Johnson's classic dismemberment of the Canadian nationalist movement. Although Trudeau's Foreign Investment Review Agency and National Energy Policy have been dismantled, economic nationalism persists; it is a testament to both the lucidity of Johnson's mind and the vigour and clarity of his writing that many of his opinions on this debate remain fresh, interesting, and relevant. William Watson's introduction provides an intriguing look at Johnson's life and work.

Author : Gladys E. Neale
Publisher : Saint John, N.B. : Laubach Literacy of Canada
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780920877210

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Reading level: M [purple].

Author : Merna Forster
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 2004-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1550025147

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100 Canadian Heroines profiles some remarkable women from the adventurous Gudridur the Viking to murdered Mi'kmaq activist Anna Mae Aquash. You'll meet heroines in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, etc. The book is full of amazing facts and fascinating trivia about intriguing figures like mountaineer Phyllis Munday, activist Hide Shimizu, Arctic guide Tookoolito, unionist Léa Roback, sexy movie mogul Mary Pickford and singer Portia White. Great quotes and photos are featured in this inspiring collection. As we celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Persons Case on October 18, 2004, discover some of the many heroines Canada can be proud of. Find out how we're remembering them. Or not!

Author : Raymond B. Blake
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1442621567

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Popular and government-funded anniversaries and commemorations, combined with national symbols, play significant roles in shaping how we view Canada, and also provide opportunities for people to challenge the pre-existing or dominant conceptions of the country. Volume 2 of Celebrating Canada continues the scholarly debate about commemoration and national identity. Raymond B. Blake and Matthew Hayday bring together emerging and established scholars to consider key moments in Canadian history when major anniversaries of Canada’s political, social, or cultural development were celebrated. The contributors to this volume capture the multiple and multi-layered meanings of belonging in the Canadian experience, investigate various attempts at shaping and re-shaping identities, and explore episodes of groups resisting or participating in the identity-formation process. By considering the small voices and those on the margins of Canada’s many commemorative anniversaries, the contributors to Celebrating Canada reveal how important it is to think not only about anniversary moments but also about what they can tell us about our history and the shifting function of nationalism.

Author : Marcin Gabryś
Publisher : Księgarnia Akademicka
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2017-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8376387928

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The academic study of Canada has traditionally been the realm of Canadian scholars. For this reason it is easy for outsiders to view Canada as a semi-Nordic continental utopia existing peacefully under a benign government that seeks only peace and harmony in the world. The reality is a more complicated story. That is the strength of this outstanding new book written by two young Polish scholars specializing in Canadian affairs. They have put together an impressively researched monograph that combines a detailed analysis outlining a rather basic premise: The world has changed dramatically since 1989 - and Canada has changed with it. In this well argued narrative they argue that in recent years Canada's foreign policy has becomeone primarily based on interests rather than the promotion of "untainted altruism" or stereotypical "Canadian values." They argue that since 1989 Canadian foreign policy has moved from the more modest aims of a "middle-power" to a more self-assertive role of a "selective power" pursuing more narrowly chosen priorities - and often based on "simple profit and loss calculations" that have clashed with Canada's traditional favorable image in the world - even if few outside of Canada seemed to notice.