Author: Canada. Commission for Crown Lands
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Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Author: Cole Harris
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774858389
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Winner, 2008 K.D. Srivastava Prize for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing, UBC Press The Reluctant Land describes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the fifteenth century to the Confederation years of the late 1860s and early 1870s. It shows how a deeply indigenous land was reconstituted in European terms, and, at the same time, how European ways were recalibrated in this non-European space. It also shows how an archipelago of scattered settlement emerged out of an encounter with a parsimonious territory, and suggests how deeply this encounter differed from an American relationship with abundance. The book begins with a description of land and life in northern North America in 1500, and ends by considering the relationship between the pattern of early Canada and the country as we know it today. Intended to illuminate the background of modern Canada, The Reluctant Land is an intelligent discussion of people and place that will be welcomed by scholars and lay readers alike.

Author: Qub̌ec (Province). Dept. of Crown Lands
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Category : Crown lands
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Author: Canada. Dept. of Crown Lands
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Author: Canada. Parliament
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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Author: Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Author: John E. Hodgetts
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487590075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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This book makes a new approach to Canadian politics, from the administrative side. It provides, first, a description of the evolution and structure of the administrative machine which, with few fundamental changes, still serves the Canadian nation, and in the process it attempts to acknowledge and appraise the hitherto unsung contributions of the public servant to the welfare of a pioneer community. A second objective is to disclose the presence in the pioneer public service of certain basic administrative issues which today still rise to perplex both the student and practitioner of public administration. And, finally, this study reveals a neglected aspect of the winning of responsible government in Canada—the author contends that the recognition of the constitutional principle on the political level, did not, in fact, coincide with its practical implementation at the administrative level. As Dr. R. MacGregor Dawson points out in his Foreword, "Few students, on suspects, appreciate how great has been the influence of the permanent officials in the years before Confederation, nor do they have an adequate comprehension of the degree to which administrative decisions of those days, both by Ministers and officials, determined many of the present practices. An astonishingly large number of the problems, moreover, will be found to have remained substantially the same for the past hundred years. The scheme of departmental organization, the delegation of authority and the allotment of responsibility, the application of financial controls, the intricate give and take between the political non-technical Minister and the technically trained specialist—these in some aspect or another have been the constant concern of the administrator: a different time, a different place, has simply shifted the emphasis a little one way or the other." Professor Hodgetts writes with humour and point; his book is a brilliant addition to the Canadian Government Series, in which it is the seventh volume to appear.

Author: New York State Library (Albany).
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1112

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Author: New York State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1112

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Author: New York State Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1108

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