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Autor:
Margaret Conrad, Kadriye Ercikan, Gerald Friesen, Jocelyn Létourneau, D.A. Muise, David Northrup, Peter Seixas
What role does history play in contemporary society? Has the frenetic pace of today's world led people to lose contact with the past? A high-profile team of researchers from across Canada sought to answer these questions by launching an ambitious inv
Autor:
Gerald Friesen, Doug Owram
Thinkers and Dreamers honours Carl C. Berger, professor of Canadian history at the University of Toronto for more than forty years and author of influential works on Canadian intellectual history. In this collection, Professor Berger's colleagues and
Autor:
James P. Giffen, Gerald Friesen
In the 1940s, the Manitoba Royal Commission on Adult Education investigated directions for the modernization of the province in the post-war era of change. It was charged particularly with looking at rural Manitoba's cultural, educational, and leader
Autor:
Gerald Friesen
Grandmother Andre told stories in front of a campfire. Elizabeth Goudie wrote a memoir in school scribblers. Phyllis Knight taped hours of interviews with her son. Today's families rely on television and video cameras. They are all making history.In
Autor:
Gerald Friesen
The prairies are a focal point for momentous events in Canadian history, a place where two visions of Canada have often clashed: Louis Riel, the Manitoba School Question, French language rights, the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, and the dramatic coll
Autor:
Gerald Friesen
Publikováno v:
The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, 1 ed., 2004.
Autor:
Gerald Friesen
The life and times of the Premier from Red River John Norquay, orphan and prodigy, was a leader among the Scots Cree peoples of western Canada. Born in the Red River Settlement, he farmed, hunted, traded, and taught school before becoming a legislato
Publikováno v:
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. 20:221-248
This paper in collective remembering is based on a telephone survey of 3,419 adult residents of Canada. The questionnaire contains over 70 questions. The interviews average over 20 minutes in length. Part of the Canadians and Their Pasts project, the
Autor:
Gerald Friesen
Publikováno v:
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. 16:1-22
The spatial dimensions of contemporary society differ substantially from those prevailing in earlier centuries and even in the first half of the twentieth century. The change requires a re-thinking of “region,” one of the fundamental concepts in