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Attorney for the Frontier

Attorney for the Frontier

Enos Stutsmon
by Dale Gibson; Lee Gibson & Cameron Harvey
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The purpose of this biography is to bring to public attention the importance of the contributions made by Enos Stutsman, an American, to the history of the province and the Northwest generally. It also attempts to impress and entertain the reader by highlighting Stutsman’s personal qualities.

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The Firm and the Formless

The Firm and the Formless

Religion and Identity in Aboriginal Australia
by Hans Mol
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This volume is woven around the idea that wholeness (the firm) and fragmentation (risking formlessness) alternate in human affairs. This theme is applied to the history and the present condition of Australian Aboriginals. Their religion is seen as a way to bolster a precarious identity and to affirm order in an existence which would otherwise becom …

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Essentially Canadian

Essentially Canadian

The Life and Fiction of Alan Sullivan 1868-1947
by Gordon D. McLeod
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Allan Sullivan wrote over forty works of popular fiction between 1890 and 1940; today it is difficult to find even one copy of many of these works. A well-known and widely read author in the first half of this century, Sullivan wrote thrillers, historical romance, children's stories, and novels set in the north (The Great Divide, The Fur Masters, C …

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The People's Clearance

The People's Clearance

Highland Emigration to British North America, 1770-1815
by J.M. Bumsted
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This is a revisionist account of Highland Scottish emigration to what is now Canada, in the formative half century before Waterloo.

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Radar Development in Canada

Radar Development in Canada

The Radio Branch of the National Research Council of Canada 1939-46
by W.E. Knowles Middleton
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tagged : radar, post-confederation (1867-), electrical

This volume continues the story of teh National Research Council begun by Physics at the National Research Council of Canada (also written by Middleton) and Biological Sciences at the National Research Council of Canada (by N.T. Gridgeman). Technical enough to interest the scientifically informed reader, yet comprehensible to the general reader, t …

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Lorenzo Magalotti at the Court of Charles II

Lorenzo Magalotti at the Court of Charles II

His Relazione d’Inghilterra of 1668
by W.E. Knowles Middleton
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In the late 1660s the English court received a visitor from Florence—Lorenzo Magalotti, an intelligent, sensitive writer and diplomat with a passion for observation and description. Magalotti had come from a state governed by an absolute grand duke to a kingdom engaged in a fierce struggle for political liberty, and from a society in which the s …

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The New Hamburg Pottery

The New Hamburg Pottery

New Hamburg, Ontario 1854-1916
by David Newlands
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tagged : post-confederation (1867-), archaeology, research

The New Hamburg Pottery was one of the twelve potteries in Waterloo County, Ontario, during the last half of the nineteenth century. The works was a family-operated business during most of its history. It was owned by members of the Boehler family until 1894 then continued under a succession of owners until 1916. The pottery depended on a local sup …

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The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. I

The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. I

edited by Sarah M. Horral
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The medieval poem Cursor Mundi is a biblical verse account of the history of the world, offering a chronological overview of salvation history from Creation to Doomsday. Originating in northern England around the year 1300, the poem was frequently copied in the north before appearing in a southern version in substantially altered form. Although it …

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The Invisible French

The Invisible French

The French in Metropolitan Toronto
by Thomas R. Maxwell
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Since the Second World War, Toronto's image as a rather staid, predominantly British community, has been transformed through massive immigration into what has been aptly described as a "salad bowl" of identifiable ethnic communities with their characteristic languages, neighbourhoods, shops, newspapers, radio programs and sporting events.

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Vita Laudanda

Vita Laudanda

Essays in Memory of Ulrich S. Leupold
by Erich R.W. Schultz
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Ulrich Leupold was associated with Wilfrid Laurier University from 1945-1970. Throughout the twenty-five-year period he taught music history and appreciation, Greek, and religious studies courses in the College and New Testament, liturgics, and church music in the Seminary. He also conducted the College choir, Male Chorus and Seminary Chapel choir. …

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A History of Kitchener, Ontario

A History of Kitchener, Ontario

by W.V. (Ben) Uttley
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William V. Uttley's outline of Kitchener's growth from the 1840's into 20th century [is] shot through with a reassuring consistency and integration of purpose .... The complex of life as we still know it—social freedom and social restraint, economy and ecology—has its genesis here in the account compiled by William Uttley. His work comes as clo …

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The Moyer Site

The Moyer Site

A Pre-Historic Village in Waterloo County
by Norman E. Wagner; Lawrence E. Toombs & Eduard R. Riegert
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The Moyer Site, the early 15th century village in Waterloo County, Ontario, contained 10 Longhouses. The largest house was the length of a football field, over 300 feet long!

Excavated in 1970–72, the Moyer village promises to shed new light on the early history of Western Ontario.

This report breaks new ground by utilizing the computer in the anal …

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Image of the Indian

Image of the Indian

by Ronald Haycock
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tagged : native american studies, native american, discrimination & race relations

The intention of this paper is to take a look at a representation of what Canadians were reading about their Indians over seventy years of this century. The purpose is to determine what view of the Canadian Indian writers were extending in the popular national magazines, and to suggest attitudes and changes in attitudes during these seven decades. …

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