Author: J. Alex Murray
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
Publisher: London : Ward, Locke
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Author: Stephen Brooks
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331974027X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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This volume examines the history and current state of Canadian studies in a number of countries and regions across the world, including Canada's major trading partners. From the mid-1980s until 2012, Canadian studies was seen as an important tool of soft power, increasing awareness of Canadian culture, institutions and history. The abrupt termination in 2012 of the Canadian government's financial support for these activities triggered a debate that is still ongoing about the benefits that may have flowed from this support and whether the decision should be reversed. The contributors to this book focus on the process whereby Canadian studies became institutionalized in their respective countries and on the balance between what might be described as Canadian studies for its own sake versus Canadian studies as a deliberate instrument of cultural diplomacy.

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Languages : en
Pages : 1944

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Author: J. Gordon Mowat
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Languages : en
Pages : 716

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Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 780

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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 744

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Author: Catharine Anne Wilson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 022801588X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Throughout history, farm families have shared work and equipment with their neighbours to complete labour-intensive, time-sensitive, and time-consuming tasks. They benefitted materially and socially from these voluntary, flexible, loosely structured networks of reciprocal assistance, making neighbourliness a vital but overlooked aspect of agricultural change. Being Neighbours takes us into the heart of neighbourhood – the set of people near and surrounding the family – through an examination of work bees in southern Ontario from 1830 to 1960. The bee was a special event where people gathered to work on a neighbour’s farm like bees in a hive for a wide variety of purposes, including barn raising, logging, threshing, quilting, turkey plucking, and apple paring. Drawing on the diaries of over one hundred men and women, Catharine Wilson takes readers into families’ daily lives, the intricacies of their labour exchange, and their workways, feasts, and hospitality. Through the prism of the bee and a close reading of the diaries, she uncovers the subtle social politics of mutual dependency, the expectations neighbours had of each other, and their ways of managing conflict and crisis. This book adds to the literature on cooperative work that focuses on evaluating its economic efficiency and complicates histories of capitalism that place communal values at odds with market orientation. Beautifully written, engaging, and richly detailed and illustrated, Being Neighbours reveals the visceral textures of rural life.

Author: Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 760

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Languages : en
Pages : 676

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