As True as I'm Sittin' Here
As True as I'm Sittin' Here

Author: Brian Sutcliffe

Publisher: Wreck Cove, N.S. : Breton Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9781895415582

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Here is the wit and good humour, the ghost tales, comebacks and outrageous happenings -200 stories by 34 storytellers that shorten the road, lighten the work, and make life worth living.

Conventional Choices?
Conventional Choices?

Author: Ian Stewart

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0774840803

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Selecting a leader is a momentous and defining choice for a political party. Leaders symbolize their party and are a primary factor in election outcomes. While much is known about the selection of national party leaders, less is known about the provincial selection process, particularly in the Maritimes. Breaking new ground, Conventional Choices examines twenty-five different leadership elections in three maritime provinces. The analysis draws on an extraordinarily rich data set spanning thirty-two years to explore the backgrounds, attitudes, and motivations of those who select party leaders. It is an impressive study that offers fresh insights into leadership selection and Maritime party politics.

Sessional Papers
Sessional Papers

Author: Canada. Parliament

Publisher:

Published: 1921

Total Pages: 922

ISBN-13:

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"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.

Liberty on the Waterfront
Liberty on the Waterfront

Author: Paul A. Gilje

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2012-04-17

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0812202023

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Through careful research and colorful accounts, historian Paul A. Gilje discovers what liberty meant to an important group of common men in American society, those who lived and worked on the waterfront and aboard ships. In the process he reveals that the idealized vision of liberty associated with the Founding Fathers had a much more immediate and complex meaning than previously thought. In Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution, life aboard warships, merchantmen, and whalers, as well as the interactions of mariners and others on shore, is recreated in absorbing detail. Describing the important contributions of sailors to the resistance movement against Great Britain and their experiences during the Revolutionary War, Gilje demonstrates that, while sailors recognized the ideals of the Revolution, their idea of liberty was far more individual in nature—often expressed through hard drinking and womanizing or joining a ship of their choice. Gilje continues the story into the post-Revolutionary world highlighted by the Quasi War with France, the confrontation with the Barbary Pirates, and the War of 1812.