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The Creative City of Saint John
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 146

The Creative City of Saint John

  • Categories: Art

This book presents a wide-ranging portrayal of the creative work done in Saint John in the hundred years following Confederation. Beautiful watercolour and oil paintings, early fossil discoveries, successful bestselling authors and other examples of the creative city are brought together in this volume. Among the many surprising and interesting accounts: the contribution to Maritime natural history made by a butterfly found in the city, the role of the city's Great Fire in generating a host of visual artists documenting the urban landscape, and the little-known Hollywood connection that made the city a hotbed of film production — in the early 1900s.

Promoters, Patriots, and Partisans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Promoters, Patriots, and Partisans

During the nineteenth-century, the writing of history in English-speaking Canada changed from promotional efforts by amateurs to an academically-based discipline. Professor Taylor charts this transition in a comprehensive history. The early historians - the promoters of the title - sought to further their own interests through exxagerated accounts of a particular colony to which they had developed a transient attachment. Eventually this group was replaced by patriots, whose writing was influenced by loyalty to the land of their brith and residence. This second generation of historians attempted both to defend their respective colonies by explaining away past disappointments and to fit events...

Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 948

Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953

The Prairie Provinces cover Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Charles Fenerty and His Paper Invention
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Charles Fenerty and His Paper Invention

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Culinary Landmarks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1326

Culinary Landmarks

Culinary Landmarks is a definitive history and bibliography of Canadian cookbooks from the beginning, when La cuisinière bourgeoise was published in Quebec City in 1825, to the mid-twentieth century. Over the course of more than ten years Elizabeth Driver researched every cookbook published within the borders of present-day Canada, whether a locally authored text or a Canadian edition of a foreign work. Every type of recipe collection is included, from trade publishers' bestsellers and advertising cookbooks, to home economics textbooks and fund-raisers from church women's groups. The entries for over 2,200 individual titles are arranged chronologically by their province or territory of publ...

Harvard Alumni Directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2336

Harvard Alumni Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1948
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Canadian Men and Women of the Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1288

The Canadian Men and Women of the Time

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New Brunswick Bibliography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 114

New Brunswick Bibliography

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Canadian Who's who Index, 1898-1984
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 554

Canadian Who's who Index, 1898-1984

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 712

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1974
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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