Louis Riel And The Creation Of Modern Canada
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Author |
: Jennifer Reid |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 314 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0887557341 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780887557347 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada by : Jennifer Reid
Politician, founder of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis, Louis Riel led two resistance movements against the Canadian government: the Red River Uprising of 1869–70, and the North-West Rebellion of 1885, in defense of Métis and other minority rights. Against the backdrop of these legendary uprisings, Jennifer Reid examines Riel’s religious background, the mythic significance that has consciously been ascribed to him, and how these elements combined to influence Canada’s search for a national identity. Reid’s study provides a framework for rethinking the geopolitical significance of the modern Canadian state, the historic role of Confederation in establishing the country’s collective self-image, and the narrative space through which Riel’s voice speaks to these issues.
Author |
: Jennifer Reid |
Publisher |
: UNM Press |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780826344151 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0826344151 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada by : Jennifer Reid
"Jennifer Reid looks at the man known today as the founder of Manitoba. Not just a traditional biography, Reid examines Riel's education and religious beliefs."--[book jacket].
Author |
: J.M. Bumsted |
Publisher |
: Univ. of Manitoba Press |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 2000-11-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780887553875 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0887553877 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thomas Scott's Body by : J.M. Bumsted
What did happen to the body of Thomas Scott?The disposal of the body of Canadian history's most famous political victim is the starting point for historian J.M. Bumsted's new look at some of the most fascinating events and personalities of Manitoba's Red River Settlement.To outsiders, 19th-century Red River seemed like a remote community precariously poised on the edge of the frontier. Small and isolated though it may have been, Red River society was also lively, well educated, multicultural and often contentious. By looking at well-known figures from a new perspective, and by examining some of the more obscure corners of the settlement's history, Bumsted challenges many of the widely held assumptions about Red River. He looks, for instance, at the brief, unhappy Swiss settlement at Red River, examines the controversial reputation of politician John Christian Shultz, and delves into the sensational scandal of a prominent clergyman's trial.Vividly written, Thomas Scott's Body pieces together a new and often surprising picture of early Manitoba and its people.
Author |
: M. Max Hamon |
Publisher |
: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2020-01-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780228000099 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0228000092 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Audacity of His Enterprise by : M. Max Hamon
Shining a spotlight on the life, vision, and cultivation of one of Canada's most influential historical figures.
Author |
: Jean Teillet |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 576 |
Release |
: 2019-09-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781443450140 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1443450146 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The North-West Is Our Mother by : Jean Teillet
There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and Europeans Their story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous throughout North America for their military skills, their nomadic life and their buffalo hunts. The Métis Nation didn’t just drift slowly into the Canadian consciousness in the early 1800s; it burst onto the scene fully formed. The Métis were flamboyant, defiant, loud and definitely not noble savages. They were nomads with a very different way of being in the world—always on the move, very much in the moment, passionate and fierce. They were romantics and visionaries with big dreams. They battled continuously—for recognition, for their lands and for their rights and freedoms. In 1870 and 1885, led by the iconic Louis Riel, they fought back when Canada took their lands. These acts of resistance became defining moments in Canadian history, with implications that reverberate to this day: Western alienation, Indigenous rights and the French/English divide. After being defeated at the Battle of Batoche in 1885, the Métis lived in hiding for twenty years. But early in the twentieth century, they determined to hide no more and began a long, successful fight back into the Canadian consciousness. The Métis people are now recognized in Canada as a distinct Indigenous nation. Written by the great-grandniece of Louis Riel, this popular and engaging history of “forgotten people” tells the story up to the present era of national reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. 2019 marks the 175th anniversary of Louis Riel’s birthday (October 22, 1844)
Author |
: J. M. Bumsted |
Publisher |
: Watson & Dwyer Publishing, Limited |
Total Pages |
: 359 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0920486231 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780920486238 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Red River Rebellion by : J. M. Bumsted
Author |
: Hans V. Hansen |
Publisher |
: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2014-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780773590472 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0773590471 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Riel's Defence by : Hans V. Hansen
In 1885, Louis Riel was charged with high treason, found guilty, and consequently executed for his role in Saskatchewan's North-West Rebellion. During his trial, the Métis leader gave two speeches, passionately defending the interests of the Métis in western Canada as well as his own life. Riel's Defence studies these speeches, demonstrating the range of Riel's political and personal concerns. The first and better known of the two speeches addresses the jury, while Riel's second speech - rarely reprinted - addresses the court following his guilty verdict. Both orations have been edited, annotated, and reprinted, and are followed by essays from diverse perspectives including philosophy, law, history, political science, religion, and communication studies. Through the course of their inquiry, contributors come to understand more about Riel's personal character and political thought, as well as his arguments supporting Métis land claims, grievances against the federal government, and his immigration plan for the North-West. Evaluating the rhetorical quality, legal merit, and cultural stakes of his speeches, Riel's Defence reveals the significance of the last public statements made by a man who indelibly shaped Canada’s history by combining his personal vision with a national vision.
Author |
: Will C. van den Hoonaard |
Publisher |
: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 2010-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781554587063 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1554587069 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, 1898-1948 by : Will C. van den Hoonaard
What binds together Louis Riel’s former secretary, a railroad inventor, a Montreal comedienne, an early proponent of Canada’s juvenile system and a prominent Canadian architect? Socialists, suffragists, musicians, artists—from 1898 to 1948, these and some 550 other individual Canadian Bahá’ís helped create a movement described as the second most widespread religion in the world. Using diaries, memoirs, official reports, private correspondence, newspapers, archives and interviews, Will C. van den Hoonaard has created the first historical account of Bahá’ís in Canada. In addition, The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, 1898-1948 clearly depicts the dynamics and the struggles of a new religion in a new country. This is a story of modern spiritual heroes—people who changed the lives of others through their devotion to the Bahá’í ideals, in particular to the belief that the earth is one country and all of humankind are its citizens. Thirty-nine original photographs effectively depict persons and events influencing the growth of the Bahá’í movement in Canada. The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, 1898-1948 makes an original contribution to religious history in Canada and provides a major sociological reference tool, as well as a narrative history that can be used by scholars and Bahá’ís alike for many years to come.
Author |
: Mary Jane Logan McCallum |
Publisher |
: Univ. of Manitoba Press |
Total Pages |
: 145 |
Release |
: 2018-09-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780887555718 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0887555713 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Structures of Indifference by : Mary Jane Logan McCallum
Structures of Indifference examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. In September 2008, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged, non-Status Anishinaabe resident of Winnipeg, arrived in the emergency room of a major downtown hospital. Over a thirty-four- hour period, he was left untreated and unattended to, and ultimately died from an easily treatable infection. McCallum and Perry present the ways in which Sinclair, once erased and ignored, came to represent diffuse, yet singular and largely dehumanized ideas about Indigenous people, modernity, and decline in cities. This story tells us about ordinary indigeneity in the city of Winnipeg through Sinclair’s experience and restores the complex humanity denied him in his interactions with Canadian health and legal systems, both before and after his death.
Author |
: Conrad Black |
Publisher |
: McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages |
: 1146 |
Release |
: 2014-11-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780771013553 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0771013558 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rise to Greatness by : Conrad Black
Masterful, ambitious, and groundbreaking, this is a major new history of our country by one of our most respected thinkers and historians -- a book every Canadian should own. From the acclaimed biographer and historian Conrad Black comes the definitive history of Canada -- a revealing, groundbreaking account of the people and events that shaped a nation. Spanning 874 to 2014, and beginning from Canada's first inhabitants and the early explorers, this masterful history challenges our perception of our history and Canada's role in the world. From Champlain to Carleton, Baldwin and Lafontaine, to MacDonald, Laurier, and King, Canada's role in peace and war, to Quebec's quest for autonomy, Black takes on sweeping themes and vividly recounts the story of Canada's development from colony to dominion to country. Black persuasively reveals that while many would argue that Canada was perhaps never predestined for greatness, the opposite is in fact true: the emergence of a magnificent country, against all odds, was a remarkable achievement. Brilliantly conceived, this major new reexamination of our country's history is a riveting tour de force by one of the best writers writing today.