Upper Canada College, 1829-1979
Author: Richard B. Howard
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 534
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A History of Upper Canada College, 1829-1892
Author: George Dickson
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Thoroughly Canadian General
Author: Paul Douglas Dickson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 641
ISBN-13: 080200802X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeneral H.D.G. 'Harry' Crerar (1888-1965) was involved in or directly responsible for many of the defining moments of Canadian military history in the twentieth century. In the First World War, Crerar was nearly killed at the second battle of Ypres, was a gunner who helped to secure victory at Vimy Ridge, and was a senior staff officer during the pivotal battles of the last Hundred Days. During the Second World War, he occupied and often defined the Canadian army's senior staff and operational appointments, including his tenure as commander of First Canadian Army through the northwest European campaign. Despite his pivotal role in shaping the Canadian army, however, General Crerar has been long overlooked as a subject of biography. In A Thoroughly Canadian General, Paul Douglas Dickson examines the man and his controversial place in Canadian military history, arguing that Crerar was a nationalist who saw the army as an instrument to promote Canadian identity and civic responsibility. From his days as a student at the Royal Military College in Kingston, to his role as primary architect of First Canadian Army, the career of General H.D.G. Crerar is thoroughly examined with a view to considering and reinforcing his place in the history of Canada and its armed forces.
Fred Cumberland
Author: Geoffrey Simmins
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780802006790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFred Cumberland (1821-81) a Canadian Renaissance man: an architect, railway manager and politician, whose life and work changed Victorian Toronto's urban landscape.
The Guardianship of Best Interests
Author: Renée Nicole Lafferty
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0773540555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of charitable children's homes and emergent state-centred child welfare policy in Nova Scotia
I've Got a Home in Glory Land
Author: Karolyn Smardz Frost
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008-06-24
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780374531256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Blackburns' improbable journey from bondage to freedom pulsates with the breath-catching urgency of a thriller, yet this remarkable story is true . . . An invaluable testament to resistance, resilience, and a once-denied but unalienable right to life and liberty.--Rene Graham, "The Boston Globe."
Seen but Not Seen
Author: Donald B. Smith
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2020-12-11
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 1442627700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on decades of extensive archival research, Seen but Not Seen uncovers a great swath of previously-unknown information about settler-Indigenous relations in Canada.
Full of Hope and Promise
Author: Eric Ross
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1991-11-11
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 0773563059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs in his popular earlier book Beyond the River and the Bay, the bulk of the story is told by a character of Ross' invention, Ian Alexander Bell Robertson. Robertson, an Edinburgh gentleman born at the end of the Scottish enlightenment, acquired a deep sympathy for the displaced crofters and agricultural labourers of the Scottish Highlands. He lived in Quebec City between 1840 to 1842 to prepare a study of the Canadas intended either as a guide for the immigrant or, as Ross feels more likely, a record of the colonies at the moment they united and embarked on a promising future together. While Ross himself sets the work in historical context and explains the use of a fictitious author, it is Robertson, a keen observer, who describes in detail numerous aspects of Canadian life in 1841: transportation, communications, social institutions and customs, life on the new farms, and the relationship between the French and English residents of the colonies -- a relationship which in many ways resembles that of today. Throughout the book, Ross has interspersed snippets of information and illustration to supplement Robertson's writings. Scrupulously researched and easily accessible, Full of Hope and Promise will interest anyone wishing to know more about everyday life in Upper and Lower Canada at the time of the 1841 Union.
Schooling and Scholars in Nineteenth-century Ontario
Author: Susan E. Houston
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780802058010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNineteenth-century educational reformers were fond of an agricultural metaphor when it came to the provision of more and better schooling: even good land, they argued, had to be cultiated; othersie noxious weeds sprang up. In this study of education in Ontario from the establishment of Upper Canada to the end of Egerton Ryerson's career as chief superintendent of schools in 1876, Susan Houston and Alison Prentice explore the roots of the provincial public school system, set up to instill a work ethic and moral discipline appropriate to the new society, as well as the beginnings of separate schools. today the Ontario school system is once again the subject of intense and often bitter deabte. Many of the most contentious issues have deep and complex roots that go back to this era. Houston and Prentice tell the story of how Ontario came to have a universal school system of exceptional quality and shed valuable light on an area of current concern.
Inside the Law
Author: Carol Wilton
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1996-12-15
Total Pages: 606
ISBN-13: 1442651288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaw firms are important economic institutions in this country: they collect hundreds of millions of dollars annually in fees, they order the affairs of businesses and of many government agencies, and their members include some of the most influential Canadians. Some firms have a history stretching back nearly two hundred years, and many are over a century old. Yet the history of law firms in Canada has remained largely unknown. This collection of essays, Volume VII in the Osgoode Society's series of Essays in the History of Canadian Law, is the first focused study of a variety of law firms and how they have evolved over a century and a half, from the golden age of the sole practitioner in the pre-industrial era to the recent rise of the mega-firm. The volume as a whole is an exploration of the impact of economic and social change on law-firm culture and organization. The introduction by Carol Wilton provides a chronological overview of Canadian law-firm evolution and emphasizes the distinctiveness of Canadian law-firm history.
