Catalogue

Catalogue PDF Author: C.F. Libbie & Co
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Catalogue

Catalogue PDF Author: C.F. Libbie & Co
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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The Feel of the City

The Feel of the City PDF Author: Nicolas Kenny
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442615818
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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At the start of the twentieth century, the modern metropolis was a riot of sensation. City dwellers lived in an environment filled with smoky factories, crowded homes, and lively thoroughfares. Sights, sounds, and smells flooded their senses, while changing conceptions of health and decorum forced many to rethink their most banal gestures, from the way they negotiated speeding traffic to the use they made of public washrooms. The Feel of the City exposes the sensory experiences of city-dwellers in Montreal and Brussels at the turn of the century and the ways in which these shaped the social and cultural significance of urban space. Using the experiences of municipal officials, urban planners, hygienists, workers, writers, artists, and ordinary citizens, Nicolas Kenny explores the implications of the senses for our understanding of modernity.

In Good Hands

In Good Hands PDF Author: Ellen Mary Easton McLeod
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780886293567
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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In 1905 two Montreal women, Alice Peck and May Phillips, founded the Canadian Handicrafts Guild. Inspired by British and American women in the arts and crafts movement, and spurred by their thirty-year rivalry with Mary Dignam of the Toronto-based Women's Art Association of Canada, these two created an organization that revived popular interest in traditional handwork done by women, Canadiens, Indigenous people, and new Canadians.

Among Our Books

Among Our Books PDF Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 674

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The Dominion of Canada

The Dominion of Canada PDF Author: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Publisher: Leipsic [i.e. Leipzig] : K. Baedeker
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Caught

Caught PDF Author: Tamara Myers
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442658967
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 521

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From the late nineteenth century to the Second World War, a 'young and modern' girl problem emerged in Montreal in the context of social and cultural turmoil. In Caught, Tamara Myers explores how the foundation and implementation of Quebec's juvenile justice system intersected with Montreal's modern girl. Using case files from the juvenile court and institutional records, this study aims to uncover the cultural practices that transformed modern girls into female delinquents. From reform schools of the nineteenth century to the juvenile court era of the early twentieth, juvenile justice was a key disciplinary instrument used to maintain and uphold the subordination of adolescent girls. Caught exposes the attempts made by the juvenile justice system of the day to curb modern attitudes and behaviour; at the same time, it reveals the changing patterns of social and family interaction among adolescent girls. Myers also uncovers the evolving social construction of these young culprits – les jeunes filles modernes with their penchant for la vie legere – as generated by parents, church authorities, women's groups, social workers, the media, and juvenile justice agents. She illuminates the rich texture of these girls' public and private lives in the first half of the twentieth century, humanizing the stories of girls who were condemned for being too modern as they worked, played, and resisted the authority of parents, community, and the law.

Biographical

Biographical PDF Author: William Henry Atherton
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Category : Montréal (Québec)
Languages : en
Pages : 718

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Transactions of the Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto

Transactions of the Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto PDF Author: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Making Public Pasts

Making Public Pasts PDF Author: Alan Gordon
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773569588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Gordon shows that while individual memory is crucial to establishing and maintaining identity, public memory is contested terrain - official customs and traditions, monuments, historic sites, and the celebration of anniversaries and festivals serve to order individual and collective perceptions of the past. Public memory is therefore the product of competitions and ideas about the past that are fashioned in a public sphere and speak primarily about structures of power. It conscripts historical events in a bid to guide shared memories into a coherent narrative that helps individuals negotiate their place in broader collective identities. The contest over public memories involves an exclusiveness that packages "others" according to the ideological preferences of the dominant cultures. Gordon shows that in Montreal ethnic, class, and gender voices strove to stake their own claims to legitimacy. Rather than acknowledging a single past, Montreal's many publics made and celebrated many public memories.

Creative Canada

Creative Canada PDF Author:
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442637846
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 704

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Did he ever play Hamlet? Has she worked in television? What was the title of his first novel? Under whom did she study? How many children has he? Answers to such questions about contemporary Canadian artists have often been difficult, even impossible, to find. This series has been created to provide the answers; it covers creative and performing artists who have contributed as individuals to the culture of Canada in the twentieth century. Each volume in the series presents a cross-section of many different kinds of artists: authors of imaginative works, artists and sculptors, musicians (performers, composers, conductors, and directors), and performing artists in ballet, modern dance, radio, theatre, television, and motion pictures; directors, designers, and producers in theatre, cinema, radio, television, and the dance; choreographers and, for cinema, cartoonists and animators. Within each category of art is included a selection of those who have achieved national and international recognition; those who have been recognized locally, and some, now deceased, who markedly influenced their contemporaries locally, nationally, or internationally. This is not a critical compilation; rather it is an objective and factual reference work for those interested in contemporary Canadian culture. Information was collected by painstaking research in a wide variety of sources, and wherever possible it has been verified by the artist to make each entry as accurate and comprehensive as possible.