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Expo 67
Not Just a Souvenir
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2010
Expo 67, the world's fair held in Montreal during the summer of 1967, brought architecture, art, design, and technology together into a glittering modern package. Heralding the ideal city of the future to its visitors, the Expo site was perceived by critics as a laboratory for urban and architectural...
National Performance
Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine Dion
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
In National Performance, Erin Hurley examines the complex relationship between performance and national identity. How do theatrical performances represent the nation in which they were created? How is Quebecois performance used to define Quebec as a nation and to cultivate a sense of 'Quebec-ness'...
by Andrê Loiselle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
The release of Denys Arcand's Le Déclin de l'empire américain (The Decline of the American Empire) in 1986 marked a major turning point in Quebec cinema. It was the first Québécois film that enjoyed huge critical and commercial success at home and abroad. Arcand's tragicomedy about eight intellectuals...
How to Learn French in Canada
A Handbook for English Canadians
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
It is well known that even after several years' exposure to high-school French, most English Canadians remain unable to speak the language. It is equally well known that many French Canadians are bilingual. One of the more obvious explanations for this relative deficiency on the part of the English...
by David Stouck
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Sinclair Ross (1908-1996), best known for his canonical novel As for Me and My House (1941), and for such familiar short stories as "The Lamp at Noon" and "The Painted Door," is an elusive figure in Canadian literature. A master at portraying the hardships and harsh beauty of the...
by Raffaello Borghini
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious paintings. Despite its reputation as an art-historical text, this is the first English-language translation of Il Riposo to be published. A distillation...
David Adams Richards of the Miramichi
A Biographical Introduction to His Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Widely considered to be one of Canada's most important authors, David Adams Richards has been honoured with a Giller Prize and two Governor General's Literary Awards. Despite this, there has been a dearth of critical appraisal of his life and works. In David Adams Richards of the Miramichi, Tony Tremblay...
A Meeting of Minds
The Massey College Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Opened in 1963, Massey College is a residential college for graduate students at the University of Toronto. The college was the brainchild of Vincent Massey, Canada’s first native-born Governor General, who wanted to create an intellectually stimulating milieu like the one he associated with the...
Harlequin in Hogtown
George Luscombe and Toronto Workshop Productions
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Toronto Workshop Productions was Toronto's first 'alternative' theatre, and for thirty years, from 1959 until its closure in 1989, it introduced audiences to a radically new form of theatre. Neil Carson's in-depth history of TWP traces the fortunes of many of its actors, writers, designers, and technicians...
Theatre in French Canada
Laying the Foundations 1606-1867
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
It is only recently that historians of the theatre in French Canada have turned their attention to playwrights active before the twentieth century. Their practice had been to trace the roots of theatre to mid-1930s, to the appearance of Father Emile Legault and his troupe, the Compagnons de Saint-Laurent,...
by André Beaulieu, W.F.E. Morley, Benôit Bernier
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
There is no doubt that local and regional history, considered by many as a kind of minor historical study, has a pressing need for a systematic inventory of its resources. This collection shows the durability, the vividness, and the astonishing productivity of a sector of history which is the stronghold...
Essays in the History of Canadian Law
Quebec and the Canadas
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The essays in this volume deal with the legal history of the Province of Quebec, Upper and Lower Canada, and the Province of Canada between the British conquest of 1759 and confederation of the British North America colonies in 1867. The backbone of the modern Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec,...
The Arts in Canada
The Last Fifty Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
In this volume a baker's dozen of creative Canadians make personal responses to the state of the arts in Canada: Northrop Frye and Guy Rocher write on general cultural trends; Hugh MacLennan and Gérard Bessette on fiction; Ralph Gustafson and Michèle Lalonde on poetry; Robertson Davies and Gratien...
Red Quarter Moon
A Search for Family in the Shadow of Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Anne Konrad's Red Quarter Moon is the gripping account of her search for family members lost and disappeared within the Soviet Union. Konrad's ancestors, Mennonites, had settled the Ukrainian steppes in the late 1790s. An ethno-religious minority, they became special objects of Soviet persecution....