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The Golden Age of Liberalism
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 ...
The Anniversary Compulsion
Whether it is birthdays, wedding anniversaries, Thanksgiving dinners or New Year’s celebrations, we humans demonstrate a peculiar compulsion to celebrate the continuing cycle of the recurrent calendar dates that mark our lives. Public events of the same type evoke an even more pronounced response. The Anniversary Compulsion focuses on Canada’s Centennial celebrations in 1967 as an example of how a classic mega-anniversary can be successfully organized and staged. With wit and wisdom, Peter Aykroyd describes how many of the key elements of Centennial year will undoubtedly be present in the staging of what is bound to be an unprecedented worldwide celebratory outburst – the advent of the 21st century, the Third Millennium.
Les traducteurs imaginaires
Cet ouvrage, le premier du genre, trace le portrait du traducteur dans la littérature québécoise à partir d’un vaste corpus d’œuvres signées par plus de 230 écrivains. L’auteur montre que nos écrivains, souvent traducteurs eux-mêmes, explorent les multiples facettes de la traduction.
Media and Voters in Canadian Election Campaigns
Media And Voters In Canadian Election Campaigns
Dictionnaire des onomastismes québécois
Le Dictionnaire des onomastismes québécois s’érige en monument modeste et fier, dédié à ces mots enfin immortalisés qui témoignent d’une langue vivante et profondément infusée du zeitgeist. Par-dessus tout, ce livre ouvre la voie à la reconnaissance de dérivés de noms propres d’ici (nelliganien, duplessiste, papineauiste…) qui émaillent le français, pour certains, depuis plus d’un siècle.
Power, Prime Ministers and the Press
An intimate history of the people of the Parliamentary Press Gallery who covered Canadian history, and made some of their own.
