Varsity's Soldiers

Varsity's Soldiers

Author: Eric McGeer

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2019-09-04

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1487503520

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The role of Canadian universities in selecting and training officers for the armed forces is an important yet overlooked chapter in the history of higher education in Canada. For more than fifty years, the University of Toronto supported the largest and most active contingent of the Canadian Officers' Training Corps (COTC), which sent thousands of officer candidates into the regular and reserve forces. Based on the rich fund of documents housed in the university archives, Varsity's Soldiers offers the first full-length history of military training in Toronto. Beginning with the formation of a student rifle company in 1861, and focusing on the story of the COTC from 1914 to 1968, author Eric McGeer seeks to enlarge appreciation of the university's remarkable contribution to the defence of Canada, the place of military education in an academic setting, and the experience of the students who embodied the ideal of service to alma mater and to country.


The Clear Spirit

The Clear Spirit

Author: Mary Q. Innis

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1966-12-15

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1487590407

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The Canadian Federation of University Women have undertaken as their Centennial project a biographical account of twenty noteworthy women. From a large number of vigorous and accomplished candidates a selection was made from various historical periods, from various regions of Canada, and from the various activities in which women have engaged. Each was to have significance in the development of Canadian society. It was also the wish of the C.F.U.W. that the essays should be based on original research and be written in a lively and readable style by women authors who are contributors to literary activities in Canada today. The book begins with the early pioneers of Canada in their several areas of settlement: Madame de la Tour, Mère Marie de l'Incarnation, Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. It includes Pauline Johnson, Laure Conan, L.M. Montgomery, Emily Carr, and Mazo de la Roche who over the years helped to establish women as professional contributors to literature and art. It has members of that honourable company of women with a cause: Adelaide Hoodless, Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, and Margaret McWilliams. It brings together a number who were among the first to enter fields traditionally regarded as for men: Cora Hind, Agnes Macphail, Maude Abbott, Alice Wilson. Bibliographical references for these and other Canadian women are included. The writers are Ethel Bennett, Marie-Emmanuel Chabot, Clara Thomas, Elizabeth Loosley, Micheline Dumont-Johnson, Elizabeth Waterston, Ruth Howes, Kennethe Haig, Eleanor Harman, Doris French, Flora Burns, Jessie Scriver, Anne Montagnes, Dorothy Livesay, and Betty Jane Wylie: they too represent various parts of Canada. With its vivid pictures of people and society this book will have a wide and popular appeal: all those who are interested in Canadian biography will enjoy it, and younger readers particularly will find much to admire in the lives of these women.


Partnership for Excellence

Partnership for Excellence

Author: Edward Shorter

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 993

ISBN-13: 1442645954

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In Partnership for Excellence, senior medical historian and award-winning author Edward Shorter details the Faculty of Medicine's history from its inception as a small provincial school to its present day status as an international powerhouse.


Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy

Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy

Author: Martin L. Friedland

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2020-04-06

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 1487525257

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In this highly entertaining biography, W.P.M. Kennedy emerges as a complicated yet compelling figure in the academic and legal history of Canada.


The University of Toronto

The University of Toronto

Author: Martin L. Friedland

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 825

ISBN-13: 1442615362

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Anyone who attended the University or who is interested in the growth of Canada's intellectual heritage will enjoy this compelling and magisterial history.


The Life of Lester Pearson: Shadow of heaven, 1897-1948

The Life of Lester Pearson: Shadow of heaven, 1897-1948

Author: John English

Publisher: Lester & Orpen Dennys, c1989-c1992.

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13:

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Through the use of diaries, letters, articles and speeches, English shows the development of the man who became Canada's 14th prime minister and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Nominee for the Ontario Trillium Award.


Historical Identities

Historical Identities

Author: Euthalia Lisa Panayotidis

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0802090001

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As intellectual engines of the university, professors hold considerable authority and play an important role in society. By nature of their occupation, they are agents of intellectual culture in Canada. Historical Identities is a new collection of essays examining the history of the professoriate in Canada. Framing the volume with the question, 'What was it like to be a professor?' editors Paul Stortz and E. Lisa Panayotidis, along with an esteemed group of Canadian historians, strive to uncover and analyze variables and contexts - such as background, education, economics, politics, gender, and ethnicity - in the lives of academics throughout Canada's history. The contributors take an in-depth approach to topics such as academic freedom, professors and the state, faculty development, discipline construction and academic cultures, religion, biography, gender and faculty wives, images of professors, and background and childhood experiences. Including the best and most recent critical research in the field of the social history of higher education and professors, Historical Identities examines fundamental and challenging topics, issues, and arguments on the role and nature of intellectualism in Canada.


Comings and Goings

Comings and Goings

Author: Charles Morden Levi

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780773524422

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Comings and Goings is the first book to connect the study of student life with both the history of the Canadian University as a whole and the role of the university as a career-training institution.