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This book explores the life and times of Roméo LeBlanc, one of Canada's most popular and successful politicians and statesmen. Probably best known as the long-standing fisheries minister in Pierre Trudeau's cabinet from 1974 to 1982, LeBlanc's career spanned the golden era of Liberalism in Canada. He capped his career during the nineties as the country's twenty-fifth governor general. Historian Naomi E. S. Griffiths spent many years reading through LeBlanc's papers and interviewing many of his colleagues to explore the worlds he moved in -- Paris in the late forties and early fifties, world capitals during his time as a journalist, and then Ottawa. As a writer with an in-depth knowledge of ...
An exploration of two centuries of formal education in Canada in which the accomodation of minority needs and local versus central control are recurring themes.
The phenomenal development of writing and literary creation among the francophone communities of eastern Canada has gone largely unnoticed and unprobed outside the fragmented land of Acadia. Writing Acadia attempts for the first time to observe from a distance the invention of literature in oral Acadia, and to interpret, assess and order the manifold manifestations of the transition from epic story-telling to writing as a means of nation-building. Having begun to write, modern Acadia has truly (re)written herself into existence, an existence now threatened by postmodern unwriting of literature. Destined not only for specialists but also and especially for readers with a general interest in literature, including students of all levels, Writing Acadia presents generous samples of Acadian poetry, drama and prose, with accompanying English translations.
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Topics include: furnishings and a curator for the Beaverbrook Art Gallery; information regarding scholarship candidates, and a photograph of the colours (flag) of the Carleton and York Regiment. Beaverbrook wanted to provide similar colours to the Royal New Brunswick Regiment.
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"Acadia" covered the Maritime provinces which are the present provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
The Atlantic Provinces cover New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland.